This blog is now an archive of my former life, particularly as a teacher at North Shore Country Day School.  Since my last post, I have gotten divorced, been remarried, lost 2 stepdaughters, gained a stepdaughter and stepson, and I gave birth to our now 9-month-old son.  I also lost my job but fortunately landed [...]

Well, it feels like a hundred years since my last post.  I will give myself a break because I am going through a divorce and life has been a bit insane.  This blog just couldn’t be one of my major priorities. But here I am, getting back up onto the horse. I still teach 3rd [...]

As mentioned in last week’s post, I gave a presentation called “Blogging in a 3rd Grade Classroom.”  I am happy to say that it was well attended and I think it went pretty well.  It is always difficult to tell whether people are quiet because they are overwhelmed, soaking up your every word, or bored [...]

This is the name of the presentation I am giving at the Northern Illinois Computing Educators (NICE) Mini-Conference this Saturday, January 31st.  Stay tuned for my presentation notes, complete with links to various tools and resources. To prepare for my workshop, my 3rd graders created posts today on our classroom blog that are reflections on [...]

Well, some of you might think that I disappeared and I guess you would be correct.  I never planned to take such a long hiatus from posting but sometimes life happens and there’s nothing you can do but go with the flow.  The day after the election (my last post), my step-daughter, a freshman in [...]

It is one thing to study or discuss history – it is another thing to watch it unfold in front of you.  I never thought I would see an African-American president in my lifetime.  I definitely never expected someone as capable and wonderful as Barak Obama.  I have nothing else to say except that my [...]

Halloween can be so much fun, but it’s also a “lost day” for curriculum.  Earlier in the week I had let our 3rd graders go onto their blog pages to create titles and choose templates.  Their excitement was encouraging and I thought that maybe I could have them begin to create their first posts on [...]

Here are your lyrics for the week. Some really great selections! I really feel the need to burn CDs of these. Thanks again for the opportunity to host these. *********************** Amy This week’s theme song is all about how to be in charge of my own destiny but not let the details trip me up. [...]

For those of you who missed the saga last week – Kevin let me host “Day in a Sentence” on my blog and then Edublogs was having technical difficulty. As a result, Kevin is letting me host again using the same theme. We did get some people to submit last week, but we would love [...]

The Edublogs team has apologized profusely for the problems with speed and stability this week. Now that upgrades have been made, things should run much more smoothly. As a consequence, we didn’t receive as many submissions this week, so Kevin has graciously allowed me to host again this next week. We will continue with the [...]