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https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2012/12/behind-scenes.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Behind the Scenes Here comes day three of me babbling on about what a teacher's job entails. Day one was about societal views of said job, day two focused o... far from it my dear elementary behind scenes https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2013/02/explicicity.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Explicicity Listening to myself speak to my students (and to my daughters, for that matter) I find I make a lot of assumptions. I assume kids understa... far from it my dear elementary https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2008/07/leap-of-faith.html?showComment=1217242260000 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Leap of Faith I should be in bed asleep, but I can't figure out how to do it. Tomorrow is the first day of school at my school (we're on a 'modified calen... far from it my dear elementary leap faith https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2012/02/educon-and-failure.html?showComment=1328531915517 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Educon and Failure As I go back to the opening panel at Educon my head starts spinning again. The question for the panel was about sustaining innovation. The ... far from it my dear elementary educon failure https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2011/10/math-exchanges-by-kassia-omohundro.html?showComment=1317955226436 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Math Exchanges by Kassia Omohundro Wedekind It has been such fun to talk with Kassia Omohundro Wedekind about, and to read, her new book, Math Exchanges , over the past month or so. ... far from it https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2010/08/19th-century-addition-to-my-classroom.html?showComment=1282573680459 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: A 19th Century Addition to my Classroom The first picture is from a one-room schoolhouse near Placerville, California, very close to wear gold was first found. I was so excited to ... far from it https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2008/08/tea-dead.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Tea Dead? Our students have been writing their stories in little books. (If you want more information Organized Chaos explains it well.) I'm learning... far from it my dear elementary tea dead https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2011/01/value-in-labeling.html?showComment=1294780523187 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: The Value in Labeling Tonight at bath time my husband was attempting to wash our three-year-old's hair. As he was trying to get her to lay down and get her hair w... far from it my dear the value elementary https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2008/02/equality-of-subject-areas.html?showComment=1203911880000 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Equality of Subject Areas I teach 5th grade in an area where my students head off to middle school next year. Their middle school treats 6th grade as a sort of bridge... far from it my dear elementary https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2012/10/reason-732-why-i-love-my-school.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Reason #732 Why I Love My school Here are two notes I received this past week. The first was written at the bottom of a permission slip about a student's participation in a... far from it https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2011/11/butter-making.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Butter Making Every year during the week of Thanksgiving the first grade team does special rotations. Teachers team up to do a specific activity and class... far from it my dear elementary butter making https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2011/01/links-ive-been-mulling.html?showComment=1295193215211 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Links I've Been Mulling I try not to write posts that go on for days; mostly because I tend not to read those sorts of posts. I may not be able to help myself here ... far from it my dear https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2012/07/snap-challenge.html?showComment=1342901070279 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: SNAP Challenge I've got a ridiculous number of tabs open, many because I wanted to do some more thinking about them or share them. Of course, sharing them ... far from it my dear elementary snap challenge https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2011/05/success-at-least-on-one-day.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Success (at least on one day) For a good ten years, at least, I've been teaching language arts using a workshop model. This year we tried something more daring and went t... far from it https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2011/10/cult-of-personality.html?showComment=1319212186409 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Cult of Personality One of my favorite people to follow on twitter, Jason Buell , had a series of tweets lately that got me thinking. Read from the bottom up. I... far from it my dear elementary cult personality https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2012/06/stretching-out-of-my-comfort-zone.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Stretching Out of My Comfort Zone In a burst of insanity I registered for ds106 this summer semester. The theme this time around is Camp Magic Macguffin . I've been followin... far from it my dear https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2009/02/searching-for-shapes.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Searching for Shapes Last week we started studying geometry. We looked at a couple of books with great pictures and found shapes in them. I asked my students if ... far from it my dear searching for elementary shapes https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2008/12/halfway-to-what.html?showComment=1229818680000 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Halfway to What? I'm halfway through my first year in first grade. I've said before that it was surprisingly challenging to adjust to the move from fifth gr... far from it my dear elementary halfway https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2011/09/fablevision-fun.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: FableVision Fun FableVision is Peter H. Reynolds' company (well his and many others, most notably his twin brother Paul). They do a ton of things, includi... far from it my dear elementary fablevision fun https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2012/08/why-we-need-to-write-poetry.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Why We Need to Write Poetry On several occasions during the ISI this summer we talked about poetry. Sometimes we did some really deep reading of poems, sometimes we we... far from it https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2012/07/choice-words-chapters-three-and-four.html?showComment=1342675032694 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Choice Words: Chapters Three and Four These two chapters focus on Identity and Agency . It doesn't surprise me that language can impact both of these things, but the extent to w... far from it https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2014/02/ Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: February 2014 Reflections from an elementary school teacher on the joys and challenges of the job. far from it my dear elementary february https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2011/09/harold.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: "Harold" This little guy is a constant surprise to me, in the best way possible. He comes out with the most wonderful answers so often. His smile is ... far from it my dear elementary harold https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2013/11/play-matters.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Play Matters As one who teaches young children, typically about six years old, I've thought a lot lately about them and formal schooling. I've wondered ... far from it my dear elementary play matters https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2011/08/peeved.html?showComment=1314408663106 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Peeved I spent my day today in a training for team leaders for our cluster (our school district is so large we are broken into eight clusters). On ... far from it my dear elementary https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2007/08/ Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: August 2007 Reflections from an elementary school teacher on the joys and challenges of the job. far from it my dear elementary august https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2008/08/underappreciated-specialists.html?showComment=1218649680000 Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Underappreciated Specialists I'm starting to feel as though I'm getting my sea legs in first grade. This is allowing me the opportunity to notice things beyond me, my st... far from it my dear elementary underappreciated specialists https://emdffi.blogspot.com/2008/01/brilliant-man-and-small-world.html Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It: Brilliant Man (and small world) My sister works with Gever Tully at his Tinkering School each summer. He is absolutely amazing in what he plans for those students and what ... far from it my dear