A Year of Reading

  One of my new routines for this year is link to the CNN10 news for the day in an open Google doc with a table where my scholars can add t...

image via Unsplash   heavy humid air a skunk was surprised nearby exclamation scent ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2020 This will be the year that I'm ...

image via Unsplash We had our virtual Meet the Teacher this past Thursday.  On the one hand, having a new group of children on the screen in...

  Some realities we cannot choose (see cleaning supplies and gallon jug of hand sanitizer in the background). Some realities we can choose (...

  Friday, August 14, 2020 was the 85th anniversary of the Social Security Act, and for this, and more, we have Frances Perkins to thank! Pra...

Learning is a Lifelong Journey (a Pantoum) Learning is a lifelong journey that can only be mapped in retrospect and never with straight line...

Remember that rollercoaster poem from last Friday? Well, we've dropped in. We're done with the ready and the set, and it's all ...

  Have you seen the new app, Zigazoo ? Zak Ringelstein, co-founder of Zigazoo describes it as a "Tik-Tok for kids."  I discovered...

August 10 has become one of my favorite days of the year--one of my favorite holidays. And this year, with the pandemic and closed libraries...

photo via Unsplash Don't Forget to Wear a Helmet We're there. Top of the ramp, crest of the rollercoaster's lift hill, poised to...