Slice of Life, Weekly Challenge, Chapter 13

(This is part of a weekly feature called Slice of Life Project) I was heading out to the mailbox to get the newspaper. On the corner, near the driveway, sat our trash cans and recycling containers, awaiting the Monday pickup. I noticed that the trash can was knocked over and thought about the vicious thunderstorm More >

(This is part of a weekly feature called Slice of Life Project) You would think that the makers of a movie that has at its center the preservation of the Earth’s ecosystem would be more attuned to the concept of “junk.” But if you, like me, were one of the folks who saw Wall*E this More >

(This is part of a weekly feature called Slice of Life Project) I have a student with a form of Autism and other health issues and the combination of those two elements make connecting with him difficult at times. That said, he is such a wonderful kid — full of insight and intellect and interesting More >

(This is part of a weekly feature called Slice of Life Project) Both Larry and Nancy tagged me to be part of this Meme that seeks to get a little deeper into who we are as people (yep, I am not a blogger-’bot … yet). And I was thinking how much that is part of More >

(This is part of a weekly feature called Slice of Life Project) I love Love That Dog, a short novel in poems by Sharon Creech, and yesterday, I began reading it aloud to my sixth graders as part of our poetry unit. A few have read it on their own before, but most had not. More >