Walking back to my room after prep, I realize something is wrong.
It’s quiet. Too quiet. My class is usually rambunctious and chatty in the room after health. I can always hear them coming down the hall. Randoms words, whispers, bangs, booms, and the scrapes of chairs against the floor lead me like a leashed dog [...]
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Today I began our newest read-aloud. Thank you to everyone for your suggestions!
I decided I wanted to go with a new genre, something my kids wouldn’t pick up on their own yet would hold their interest, and something that was light and quick. Our newest class read-aloud is Marley: A Dog Like No [...]
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