Posts under ‘Isabel’

The marathon is over.  The Wild Things have gone home (or what passes as home).  All that’s left is bits of ratty paper and crumbly memories strewn through my room, through me.  A school year.  Nine-ish months of intense proximity.  Just like a pregnancy, only with 20: viginitituplets?  Puts Octomom to shame.
As I look back [...]

Last week my second graders crossed the Rubicon of their writing journeys.  It was a point of no return.
They surged across the murky waters of This and That straight into the Land of PARAGRAPHS.  Not one, but two.  ParagraphS, with a capital S at the end.
No more struggling primarily with THE WORD or THE SENTENCE.  [...]