Friday, December 11, 2009. More Adventures of the New Substitute. Adventures of the New Substitute-continued. Last week I subbed for a 1st grade class and learned something very valuable. I CANNOT TEACH 1st GRADERS! The Teachers Funeral by Richard Peck. How does this decision effect Russell and Lloyd? Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Twilight-New Moon by Stephanie Meyer. I read a 600 page book in 3 days. Do Bella and Edward get back together? I would li.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Well, well, well. What can I say? I really did try to get interested in blogging. My friends nag me all the time because I have a face book account that I never log onto. Sunday, October 25, 2009. Sunday, October 11, 2009. What a way to look at failure! Links to this post. Monday, October 5, 2009. Sunday, September 27, 2009.

Friday, December 11, 2009. That means benchmark is fast approaching! I guess that this will be an end to my blogging for now-I have enjoyed keeping up with you guys and thanks for sharing your classrooms and ideas with me. I hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Monday, December 7, 2009. Above are a few pictures of my class today as they watched the Magic School Bus studying the water cycle-they loved this! .

A special blog site for Literature Across the Curriculum. Saturday, December 26, 2009. Christmas just keeps on giving! Perhaps your family is something like ours - or perhaps not. Since the children have grown up and added spouses and children of their own, things are just not the same around our house. Here it is the day after Christmas and we are still waiting to have all of our kids show up so we can exchange gifts.

Saturday, December 5, 2009. One even brought in a cake in the shape of a book decorated with icing. This was a GREAT idea! Thursday, December 3, 2009. I was hoping that this horrible schedule of mine would be only for a year. Looks like it will carry on next year. Literacy AND Math for two different grades are killing me! Tuesday, December 1, 2009. How is everyone else? .

Wednesday, December 9, 2009. The football players came to my room to read to my students. Spirit week was AWESOME! As you can tell our float had a toilet on top of it. We didn;t win the contest, but everyone said that we should have. I thought we should have also. PJ day, what else needs to be said! Friday, November 13, 2009.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009. I wish I could show you my students. They really are a great group of kids. They are supposed to come give us some training on it, and I sure need it! The Countdown is on.

I do not live where I teach. I have a husband who is teaching an hour from where we live. A book written by a local poet. Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Ghosts I Have Been - By Richard Peck. Blossom Culp and Alexander Armsworth were on another outer world adventure. This time on a transatlantic voyage to see the Queen. Breaking All The Rules - by William Shrum.