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Monday, May 28, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - Epistle

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I've been cleaning house and found a stack of old letters my mother sent me. It seems no one writes letters anymore. My mother claims s...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - Kyrielle

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Yes, I know it's Tuesday, but it's been so long since I've been here that I wanted to get this out. I hope a few of you are stil...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Poetry Friday - Undivided Attention

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Normally on Poetry Friday I peruse my bookshelves and find something I want to share. Here's what my office looks like right now.  ...
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Friday, May 04, 2012

Poetry Friday - Part of the Chain

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So, I've been silent for a while, dealing with family, life, and work. Graduation is this weekend, so now that my grades are done, I...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Stepping Away For a Bit

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We had an unexpected death in the immediate family today. All my big plans for poetry month are now on hold, as I'll be stepping away fo...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - I Left My Heart

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Last week's prompt was titled " I Left My Head ." Folks wrote some really wonderful poems about faulty memories and absent-min...
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Monday Math Freebies - Domino Dance

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Today's  Monday Math Freebie  is up over at  Bookish Ways in Math and Science . You'll find a problem solving activity where student...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - I Left My Head

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I've been playing the absent-minded professor lately. I seem to be forgetting everything. In thinking about my seemingly constant state ...
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Monday Math Freebies - Add-it Bingo

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Today's Monday Math Freebie is up over at Bookish Ways in Math and Science . You'll find two versions of a bingo game that allows s...
Friday, March 09, 2012

Women in Science – Trailblazers of the 20th Century

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In part one of this series (over at Kidlit Celebrates Women’s History Month ), I wrote about women in science who boldly went where no women...
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Thursday, March 08, 2012

Women in Science is Up!

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Head on over to KidLit Celebrates Women’s History Month and check out my guest post entitled Women in Science: Trailblazers Before the 20th...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Women's History Month in the Kidlitosphere

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KidLit Celebrates Women’s History Month  is a blog that was founded in 2011 to commemorate Women's History Month across the kidlitospher...
Monday, March 05, 2012

Monday Math Freebies

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For a while now I have been encouraging my students and the teachers I work with to consider games for homework. Can you imagine what your v...

Monday Poetry Stretch - The Zeno

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Last week I was feeling Fibonacci.  Since I'm still in a mathematical mood, this week I'm feeling Zeno.  The Zeno is a poetic form t...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Tuesday Poetry Stretch - Feeling Fibonnaci

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Have you seen this? If you want more, you check out Part 2 , and Part 3 of Doodling in Math Class: Spirals, Fibonnaci, and Being a Plant...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award 2011

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This year I had the pleasure of serving as a judge for the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award . After months of reading, the committee of judg...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Cybils Winners Announced

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Yes, they're in. Go now! Cybils 2011 Winners And here are the short lists they were selected from. Cybils 2011 Finalists

Tuesday Poetry Stretch - NOT About WHO You Love, But WHAT You Love

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I was given a book of love poems (Shelley) when I was a teen. My response then was ... YUCK! Thirty+ years later, my opinion hasn't chan...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Poetry Friday - A Happy Childhood

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I don't normally write about political issues, but today I must, so please bear with me. (If you just want the poetry without the prefac...
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Monday, February 06, 2012

Monday Poetry Stretch - Skeletonic Verse

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While looking over verse forms I came across some references to Skeletonic verse. Most references link back to Robert Lee Brewer's blog ...
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