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Day 3: Ode to the Poop Game

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Today, while I put Scoober Doo down for a nap, the other two got out their current favorite board game and played all by themselves (success!). They call it “The Poop Game” but its official name is “Chickapiglets.”

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Day 2: Different time zones

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It is our second full day of remote learning and self-isolating. I did not teach today with my part-time course load, so here’s a reflection on our family scheduling and sleep schedules. Kid 1: 7:30PM-7:30AM Our oldest, Spartacus, is five and a half. He plays hard all day, is ready for bed by 7:30 PM, and is awake exactly twelve…
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Day 1: Intro to Remote Learning

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My children’s preschool teachers are AMAZING. They created bags of activities, recorded themselves reading books for circle time and hosting Jesus time, and they joined the pastor to record a chapel message. I WISH I were half that put together as a remote-learning teacher! Hubster teaches three section of junior World Religions, and three sections of sophomore Epistles. I have…
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Day 0: Remote Learning

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It has been a long time since I’ve blogged. Our third child, some postpartum anxiety, and hubster’s new job(s) have made the last nine months CRAZY. Even crazier? This switch to remote learning in response to the coronavirus in the U.S. New blog series = what the heck this might look like… Coronavirus & Getting Out of the Pool I…
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“We can do hard things” – the Power of a Growth Mindset

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As part of my AP English summer assignment, I ask my students to write me an introductory letter describing what they hope to achieve by taking AP English. Some are brutally honest: “It’s for my Honors diploma.” Some are flattering: “I’ve heard you’re a great teacher and I had to take your class because I’d love it!”  But the most common…
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Waiting for Baby: a Labor Story Part One

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Jump to Waterbirth: a Labor Story Part 2 I have been married for eight years, and spent the better part of six of those years either pregnant or breastfeeding a baby. My mom had her first baby at 29, so growing up I never imagined I’d have three kids under the age of 5 before I turned 30, but whelp,…
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Spring Break Craft: Wine Cork Flag

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Spring break this year wasn’t glamorous. One kid got the flu, the other got annual shots, I got a cold, and of course it was a drill weekend for Hubster (It’s ALWAYS a drill weekend, it seems). Also it snowed. At any rate, there wasn’t a lot of extra time for sleep, projects, or even a ton of relaxing. Still,…
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Romeo & Juliet, according to freshmen

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One of the summative projects for my freshman English 9 Romeo and Juliet unit is a “Tic-tac-toe” project. They get a checkerboard of 9 options and they draw a line through the middle, each producing a visual, written, and performance component. It’s an easy creative project that generally yields fun results during the last week before spring break. Since I…
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Teacher Burnout…and solutions

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a new experience This is my seventh year in the secondary classroom. When I began teaching, I didn’t imagine I would be teaching this long. In fact, nearly 1 in 5 teachers tap out by year 5.  I didn’t know what I would be doing, but I packed up my classroom each spring vaguely wondering how many more times I…
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My child said, “I hate you”

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Spartacus, our oldest, will turn 5 this year, and he is in his second year of full-time preschool. He attends a wonderful Lutheran ministry, but despite the best efforts of his parents teachers, that pesky original sin side keeps sneaking through! Today, for the first time he shouted up the stairs at his daddy those piercing words: “I hate you!”…
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