Category Archives: Day in Sentence

Please consider joining us with Day in a Sentence this week. Here is how it works:

• Reflect on a single day or your entire week;
• Boil that reflection down into a single sentence;
• Use the comment on this blog post to submit your sentence;
• I moderate all of the submissions and collect them and publish them together sometime this weekend (or Monday, as I am out of town this week)
• Be part of the group! Everyone is welcome!

Peace (in days),

Kevin

This week, Day in a Sentence becomes all a-twitter as Jo takes over a guest host with the theme of Day in a Twitter. This means that your sentence is going to be limited to just 140 characters or less. If you don’t Twitter or don’t even want to think in terms of Twitter, that’s OK, too — just write a short, concise Day in a Sentence and head on over to Jo’s Blog — Mrs. Hawe — and add your reflection to the mix.

And if you are someone who keeps hearing about Twitter but you’re not quite sure what it is, here is a neat video explanation:

See you over at Jo’s place!

Peace (in sharing in short bursts),
Kevin
PS — you can find me on twitter, too, at http://twitter.com/dogtrax

This week, Tina takes over the reins of Day in a Sentence as guest host for the first time. Her twist on the ‘ol chestnut? (We’ve been doing idioms in the classroom, so they are coming through in my writing these days) She wants you to write a reflective sentence about what happens after you lock up the classroom for the day and head off into the night. (Keep it clean, folks!)

Please join us over at T-Dawg’s Blog for this week’s Night in a Sentence.

Kevin

The challenge this week for Day in a Sentence was to use alliteration. These were fun to read out loud.

• To my motherly dismay my most mini of males is markedly manifested with the measles. — Illya
  
• Perhaps pathetic peripheral printer problems present, put possible pertinent proposed preparation plans past patching, partly precluding previously posted possible printer problems. — Ken, who notes: “This was presented recently as a report to our coordinator who requested suggestions for the problems incurred when using the office printer.”
• ‘eavily engaged in entertaining eerie aliens, as earthlings eager to exist for ever. — Marg, who notes;: “Translation – we have joined the ms1001tales.2009.wikispaces.com global writing project, where we have to write a story which entertains the alien king, or we all die. Eek! We are having enormous fun. 🙂
• The tributary trickles tentatively through the town — Scibulous
  
• Wearily writing winded words which wither within wastebaskets. — Val
  
• Tortuously training teenagers through timing, trial, tribulation and number twos to take THE TEST. — Lori
  
• Working with the worst attitudes warrants wistfulness, wisecracks, and a wandering mind after school. — Brandi
  
• Even though the sun has not yet welcomed us, as we wind our way around Washington, meeting with reps to win their support for the National Writing Project, there’s a blast of fresh air that seems to have washed over the city, the country and the world. — Bonnie
• I am perfectly puzzled and perplexed how I didn’t include two perfectly punctual Slicers in my giveaway … please forgive me! — Stacey

Thank!

Peace (in poetic purposes),
Kevin

So, I am adding another twist to Day in a Sentence with Day in Alliteration. Your task: Reflect (of course) and thenwrite a Day in a Sentence in the comment section of this post using some sort of alliteration (a series of words with the same starting sound).

Here is mine:

I’m trying to quell the competitive craziness of Quidditch with my kids even as we keep on track with our class curriculum.

What about you?

Peace (in posts),
Kevin

PS — Want to know about our game of Quidditch? Here is a video documentary of our game:

It was a bit of a poetic challenge this week for the Day in a Sentence folks: create a reflective couplet. I am pleased to present the rhymes and semi-rhymes and more:

First off, Anne M. admits that the rhyme thing … well, it didn’t pan out. But Day in a Sentence if nothing if not flexible, so:

A few days of adventure have just passed me by
It started off calmly , with problems so few,
Then a meeting in Melbourne, my husband came too
We drove in a car to get there on cue
Unfortunately, just at dawn we hit a kangaroo
It went down and damaged our car which is not new
We were able to drive on to the city oh, so far
My husband went to see the grand prix live with cars
And at night we slept above a nightclub full of jive.
After seeing the footy albeit ‘live’

Cynthia seems like she is having a blast.

Splashing in mud puddles one after one
Tommy LaRue and My-My having an afternoon of fun

Val captures the sense of freedom, no matter the weather:

Seven days mindless fun
Regardless of the lack of sun

There is a clear sense of “rush” to the lines of Marg‘s couplets, isn’t there? But also, a hint of something calmer on the other side of chaos.

Student teachers, meetings and 2 sports days in the mix
Some colleague camaraderie was the perfect little fix.
5 days left till end of term, I’m dragging to the line,
2 weeks of reading, catching up, and then we’ll all be fine.

No, Alex, it is not bad. No stress with Days in a Sentence. Just sharing and reflection. I won’t count the syllables or check the rhymes. Plus, you’re on break!

Off on Spring Break for an entire week
Hoping for my Work in Progress to tweak

I can always count on Ken to come up with something witty with his poetry, which is like a first language to him.

The day has come to split a thought in two
And write a pair of lines to rhyme on cue.

It’s a trio of couplets! (I like the sound of that). Thanks, Alan.

It’s football season in Australia
My team got beaten, that’s a failure!

Today has dawned with clouds of grey
Where is the sun to light the way?

Is the gloom that blankets me
Part of my sport misery?

sara wrote about tests, too (like me), which don’t make for fun rhymes but she, of course, found a way to be playful about it.

finally, our stupid state tests are all done,
so show us the door, we’re ready to run!

Gail P. gives poetry a try and comes out shining. Way to go, Gail.

Pushing through the week
At times with heavy load,
I long for days to pass, to bring the week its close
But then I am renewed,
A student’s learning shows,
And I’m reminded why – this is the path I chose.

See you later this week.

Peace (in poems),

Kevin

With Poetry Month around the corner, I thought we could once again try Day in a Couplet, in which you boil down your week or day into two lines that rhyme. No other rules or regulations to stymie your creative minds. Use the comment link on this post, and I will collect and republish the couplets sometime over the coming weekend.

Here is mine:

Next week shall bring us the big state tests
And along with that, unfortunately: stress

Peace (in rhyme),
Kevin

I guess the week got away from me. But here is the call for words …. for Day in a Sentence. How is your week going? Your day? Consider joining us by boiling your reflection down to a single sentence and sharing it out with the comment link on this blog post. I will collect and publish sometime over the weekend.

Peace (in your days),
Kevin