So it is a cheezy title but that is what my kids at school and I are doing for the new year. We are hunting out new and awesome words to expand our vocabulary. I read an article the other day that stated that what separates low SES kids besides their life experience is their lack of vocabluary and exposure to the world around them. I thought Hey! I can do the vocabluary part!
What is new with us? I went skiing for the first time in ten years and I suck. We were going to go again this weekend but were snowed in. I have read about 30 childrens chapter books over the past three weeks and have been sledding so much that I am still sore (the oppinion of a six year old is that every moment there is snow we should be in it) so we were.
I am in another battle with fluency with Miriam as her teacher is sure although she is in the highest reading group and has 100% comprehension on everything that they read that because she can not read fast enough they should drop her down. I feel like an alien in a foreign world sometimes.
New years goals? Another tri or two I suppose, maybe learning to ski with some kind of grace, more soccer and less time caught up in classroom politics. A deeper understanding of each of my students gifts and how to inspire those gifts within them, more dancing with Miriam, deeping my time with Kevin, quiet time without judgement of myself and eating a lot of fruit. Am I cracking you up yet? Thats me.
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