Weeds in the Garden

I miss this blog : )  I am kinda blogged out as I am writing blogs in prep for a Masters,  and writing blogs (sporadically) for an iPad project.   But this goes here.   A bit of what we...

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Some days it just all comes together.  And apart.  An aside, to start with.  I am blogging for a course right now. I usually post them on a made-for-that blog.   But of course, you can't...

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I didn’t plan to write this blog.  I was responding to a comment posted in something I wrote a year ago,   Rethinking Calendar .   It occurred to me that the response was really an entire p...

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I like to brag that I am a life long learner.  Quick brain, voracious reader, lover of tangents and pushing the edges.  Absorbing, reflecting, re-thinking.  I am all about that, baby.     ...

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Warning: This post is unlikely to make sense to anyone but me : )  I have had an amazing week last week.  I spent it in Twitter DMs  and real time conversation with a #rockstar.  Lisa Murp...

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My K's helped me with a #genuishour   and Angela Maiers  inspired Passion Project :  A Documentary, Kindergarten Style :   Documentary from Mardelle on Vimeo . So.  A goal this year w...

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Wow. Been away from writing here for a bit.  It happens I suppose.   I tend to write when worlds smash into each other,  as they are prone to do on twitter.   I could write about a million t...

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The Great Calendar Debate   Ok.  I have a few Calendar Routine issues.  I can get a little cranky when the conversation rolls around to this topic.  For years I have railed against the ca...

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Picture Book 10 for 10 challenge “This post is for #PB10for10 which was started by @mandyrobek and @CathyMere three years ago to share picture book resources.” I thought that this year...

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#KINDERBLOG2012: QUESTION NUMERO CINQ! Choose 5 objects from around your HOME (NOT your classroom!) that tell us something about you: as a teacher or as a person. Take pictures of the obje...

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So. Edcampkinder reflections.  Meeting some of the #kinderchat dream team face to face in Vegas of all places.   I told an absent Patty :  Don’t worry - it will feel like you are there!  I...

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#KINDERBLOG2012: QUESTION NUMERO UN!  DETAILS HERE What did you learn this past (or, for our southern hemisphere friends, what ARE you learning this current) school year that you couldn't h...

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As a kindergarten teacher, I am on a constant quest to find authentic, engaging avenues for Play to bring to my current group of kinders.   I am a little crazy about it, truth be told. I have e...

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I am a kinder teacher that thinks glitter is evil.  In a playful, not for me kinda way.  I am also a kindergarten teacher who thinks the same of Paper Chains.  You know them. Strips of paper ...

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We are going to start finger knitting in Kindergarten soon.  I thought it was a great way to practice fine motor skills. Tactile, beautiful, creative as well.    I was wrong.  It is apparentl...

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Lots of buzz out there about the undone classroom. Bare walls.  Clean slate.  Children will fill the walls with authentic learning.  Tossing the desk.  I agree, to a degree. I certainly have ...

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Tell us about your greatest classroom disaster. The biggest mess, the lamest lesson, the most snooze-worthy circle time. Hopefully, even if you couldn't laugh about it at the time, you can laugh ...

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Nope. Can’t. Not right now. Thoughts as I read this week's blog challenge.  Tell the story of one specific child, who walked into your life and changed everything. In a week of midnight ac...

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Blog Challenge 3 Imagine that a parent of one of your students, stumbling around the internet, happened to land on your blog. Not your class blog with your cute photos of all your munchkins and ...

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Tell us about the teacher preparation you attended. (You don't have to name the school if you don't want to.) Did you love it at the time? Did it prepare you adequately for teaching? How did you ...

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When Amy thunk this up,  I was excited!  Once a week writing?  Never done it. Reflection matters. Mostly just to your own self,  but it matters. So Blog Challenge Begins! Tell us the story ...

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(*There are photos of kid's stuff this time - you can skip my blah blah and jump to paragraph 4 : ) So.  I started a blog with no real plan. I do want to ramp things up next year,  when I hav...

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Cliche, but on my mind often.  #Kinderchat topic a few weeks ago evolved into this discussion about boys and rough housing.   Boys and guns.  And continues to come up through figuring out viol...

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Heavy sigh.  It is election time in the great white north,  and this comment has come up more than once to describe our political culture - yelling, stomping, tantrums, a refusal to listen, bul...

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Special thanks to @Mr_Fines , @lamhrainbow , @ryflinn . @Matt_Gomez Daddy Ducks one and all. I recently attended a conference with a keynote from Dr Newfeld . The twitter version of it is #k...

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