Your Days in Sentences

Here’s the twenty-second installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each week I’ll post them along with links to the authors’ blogs.

And, as usual, any new authors who enter are added to the blogroll.

Sorry about the lack of this feature last week. I was out of town.

Firdt up is Jody Hayes, who writes:

Two days until the Easter break and my colleague who does ALL the techie stuff for school leaves … no replacement … how can you replace a person? … fingers crossed for on technical glitches for the next … let me think … FOREVER! :(

Check out Jody’s Voyagers.

Take a moment to look at her students’ pages, at Jody’s posts, and at the bazillion pictures throughout and think to yourself what could happen when a school does not embrace the technology it has available. Jody, I’m sure you’ll find a relacement. Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

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nani says, simply:

Enough Said

Enough said is right: Here’s what I wrote to nani when I saw this photoset: I hate you. I think if I had the chance to kill someone, just so I could spend a night in Paris…yeah, I’d do it.

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Luke Walsh writes:

Watching multi-color floral bloom into the second inning of Spring, I commute up in the Appalachian Mountains to teach power functions to college students, who now enter the ninth inning of their spring semester, and then I coast home to feed my two month old son during the bottom of the seventh inning stretch of the Mets baseball game.

Luke is a new entrant who runs a WordPress.com blog titled 52 Reflections. This reflection page is a project Luke has undertaken because he wants to enter that larger arena of techer-bloggers who put themselves out into the world, versus keeping it all inside the classroom.

He says: My goal is to write reflections on my experiences in eduction for one whole year. In the past I have always thought plenty about my teaching and even once I kept a written journal for a month. But never have I made a priority with my reflections as I have now.

I think you’ll find, Luke, that by keeping your own reflecitons, by listening to the comments of others, and from jumping around the edu-sphere to see what other teachers are doing, you’ll change what and how you teach. I think your project is a brilliant and necessary one.

Luke’s blog is still pretty new, so be sure to check out some of his beginning reflections:

• Just How important is a class syllabus?
• How difficult is your class?

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graycie writes:

Until the school system clones me, I can’t be everywhere at once the way they seem to require: after-school tutoring, required English city-wide meetings, supervising after-school detention,faculty meetings, calling parents, in-school department meetings, grading compositions, IEP meetings, student support meetings, grading paperwork, grade-level planning meetings, and on and on and on.

And it’s really too bad graycie can’t be everywhere. She’s really great with her students and in the ways she writes about them on her blog. Just this week, as a matter of fact, graycie has posted three interesting stories about:

• Students thinking out loud about writing.
• Students she just can’t understand.
• And Two kids who are fining out about the realities of life, the hard way

graycie has also been nominated for a “Best of Blogs” award, and there’s still time to vote (until April 13)! Click here to see the nominees for Best Education/Homeschooling Blog

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Bonnie writes:

Sedars are for families to come together to celebrate spring, meet new members, return to a bit of religious ritual, share amazing food and feel rich in connections and so it was for me for the last two nights, fantastic experiences but now I’m glad to be back to my guitar waiting patiently to be played for our coming recital in a few weeks.

One of the things I truly enjoy about Bonnie’s entries here is that she often shares her life with us in these sentences. On her blog she balances stories about her work with the guitar alongside movie reviews AND education topics — you get the full gamut over at blk; here, through, you get the richness of life.

Click the link to read a little more in-depth into what happened at this Sedar.

And check out the awesome podcast she did with Kevin Hodgson (that name sounds fmailiar) for Teachers Teaching Teachers on Telling Stories with Technology.

Before leaving, BonnieBonnie also left this little note: I love sharing life on this Day in a sentence. I really missed it last week. glad to be back. I am in the holiday and spring spirit before it gets more hectic.

Thanks, Bonnie. It’s good to be back. Sorry I left you hangin’ last week.

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Ms Q sighs:

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Spring Break-a time to get everything done that didn’t get done during the quarter-or a time to do nothing! Guess which won out?

My spring break comes a little earlier than the rest of the planet, and so when I started reading about all these other teachers’ spring break fun and excitement, I got a little jealous. Nevertheless, I have nothing but agreeing nods to share with Ms Q, because the moment I get a break from school, I do as little as possible.

Check out Ms Q’s List of things she did over spring break. How many of these did you do, as well? (Oh, and make sure you follow her link to the “Oddysey of the Mind.” Congrats to her kids!)

And finally, how can you link to Ms Q without giving mention to her own meme: Question of the Week. This week’s question is a doozy: Are you a teacher of content, or a teacher of skills/strategies?

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teachergirl writes:

Spring Break was delightful; today’s acceptance letter was the icing on the cake; now, only eight more weeks until the end of the year.

If you haven’t been following Teachergirl’s posts, you don’t know how exciting this “acceptance letter” is. And it’s not for the teacher, it’s for the daughter — BrownBear. See, several months ago she applied to a private school, and they’ve anxiously awaited something back in return. They applied to several private schools, but had their sights on one. If you’ve ever waited for an important letter, you’ll understand the frustrations the come when you start to question the postmaster general.

And when that letter finally comes…

Congrats to BrownBear!

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And wrapping things all up Kevin, who says:

The game of Quidditch rocks our school hard and keeping our sixth graders focused as they prepare for our own version of the Harry Potter game (Tournament Day is Wednesday and the entire school comes to watch the four teams compete) is like trying to fit a cat inside of a Coke bottle — they squirm and squiggle and refuse to focus on anything other than the game, but I get some poetry out of them anyway.

This Kevin is the aforementioned Kevin from Bonnie’s post. He’s a poetry-writin’ technology-usin’ teacher, and on his blog you’ll find it all.

I’ll just keep this last entry to one link, ’cause once you hear these kids’ poems, you’ll be scouring Kevin’s site for more.

Listen to The Quidditch Poetry Podcasts

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So there we go! Another Your Day in a Sentence down and yet another week coming up. Expect another call for sentences in a few days.

Thanks again to everyone who participated — you get me out reading your blogs when I otherwise don’t have the time, or when I forget.