#celebratelu2017 Still Holding on Tight

Did you hear? 
I'm moving to a new to me house,
With a new to me porch,
With new to me floors,
With new to me doors,
With a new to me room.

 

Can you see?
They're packing my toys,
The ones I play with,
Packing my blankets,
The ones I snuggle under,
Packing my pots,
The ones I bang together,
Packing my clothes,
Into boxes and bins.

 

Did you see?
I'm holding on tight
To my cars,
The ones that fit in my pocket,
The ones I push and fill with sticks,
The ones I ride to the "store"
Until they load the last load
Into that BIG truck.

Until they take me

Holding tight to all my cars,

To MY new to me house. 

Reposting: How to reach all readers

This is from 3 years ago; however, it is good to think about as we gear up for another school year and readers who deserve our best.

http://drferreri.blogspot.com/2014/08/reaching-all-readers-with-sight-and.html?spref=fb

SOL#17 Hold on Tight

These are certainly busy times

As we embrace a new school year.

Considering ways to ensure learning

For diverse learners

Researching means of creating

Respectful learning environments.

These are certainly challenging times

For our country, our world.

Asking us to  

Consider ways to ensure kindness,

Embrace patience,

For our diverse melting pot, 

Imploring us to

Research means of creating

Respectful living environments.

These are certainly times

When we need to be kind

When we all need to hold on tight

To the Golden Rule,

And to that red, fire truck

If you are not quite two.

Literacy Learning - Snippets Along The Journey

I should have written down all the funny things students have said over the years.
I'd be rich.
I should write down all the silly things my grand-miracles are starting to say.
I'm enriched with the opportunity to witness the journey of literacy learning without the stress of parenting this time!

“What’s your name, sweetie,” the clerk asked?

“Eeee peed on the toiy-it,” she responded in toddler-speak.

“Good girl,” the clerk clapped assuming, erroneously, Eeee was her name and accurately that something had happened in the bathroom.

And so the clerks and the toddler joined in a round of applause for someone named Eeee, thinking, foolishly, that the story teller in front of them had accomplished great things in the bathroom that day!

#SOL17 One Step And Then Another

A reminder:

Go, even if you are relunctant,
Continue, even if it is hard,
Through the rocky passages
Along the steep cliffs
Through the misty clouds
Along the winding path
Climb those mountains
One step and then another.
The journey might be tough
The reward for persistence
Grand.