Portfolio

Here’s a link to my teaching portfolio. What do you think?

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Darkness Cannot Drive Out Darkness

This has been on my heart lately. A quote from Dr. Martin Luther King: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.”  How do we teach this to children? How do we teach this to adults? How do we overcome darkness in our own lives so we can be a light?

John 8: 12 “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I AM THE LIGHT of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’ ” If only I could remember and reflect that more often than I forget it…

Revisiting “The Students, the Senator, and the Power of Twitter”

Seems like we have some new followers to our classroom blogs. There are some students from the University of Southern Alabama doing a great job of commenting on the 5th graders’ blogs and encouraging them that REAL people are REALLY reading their writing. Ah, the power of authentic writing and real audience! My kids rarely write stuff JUST to hand in for a grade.

So I wanted to repost a link to something that MIGHT be of interest to them as they explore technology and the power of social networking in the field of education in their college studies. Here’s a post I guest wrote for Angela Maiers entitled “The Students, the Senator, and the Power of Twitter.” Come back here and let me know what you think!

Merry Christmas!

Here’s a copy of our family Christmas card this year.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Draft of Candy Store Poem

Here’s an incomplete rough draft of a poem I’m working on. What do you think?

Heaven on Earth  (Working Title)

Is there any place more

WONDERFUL

than a

CANDY STORE?

Row after row

of glass jars

filled to the brim

with…

soft pink candies

bright gummie candies

melt-in-your-mouth chocolate candies

suckers, lollies, and blow-pops,

cotton candy

butterscotch

green apple sour

chewy caramel

smooth candy

hard candy

sugared candy

(*That’s all I have for now. What else should I include?? Smells??? Sounds??)