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Name your top three pet peeves.

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Fine, I’ll do a Thanksgiving blog. Are you happy?

My students are doing a “I am thankful for” prompt, so here’s mine:

  • Having my daughters home for Thanksgiving. One daughter lives in Denver, CO and the other lives in Ames, IA. We are, at minimum, three hours away from one, twelve from the other. Needless to say, we can’t get together much. So the idea ...
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    Last week, we played a basketball game in a neighboring district.

    Nothing special there, but yet, there was.

    One of the reasons I jumped districts was to teach with the other sixth-grade teacher there. I’ve known her for quite a while, and she’s an amazing teacher. We’ve been good friends since our last school, and could easily communicate across a room wh...

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    If you’ve been with me for a while, you know that I write a lot about emotion, attitude, and just being there in the moment with whatever it is you are feeling.

    #dontweknowit

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    This slice is real-time today.

    For part of our social studies, I have the students draw maps. Nothing hugely technical or anything like that, but enough that they can see where the places are that they are drawing.

    #youcannotdrawastraightline

    Oh, I know, and my students let me know, in no uncertain terms, that they are NOT artists, and how dare...

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