The year my kids started kindergarten was the same year our school added K – 3rd grades to its 4th – 8th, and so all the lower grades started together. For three years, my kids moved in a cohort with the grade above them. They were a tight-knit, unified learning community. We loved our parent […]
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I have a friend who teaches the fourth grade, and just from the way her voice sounds on the phone when she talks about her day, I can tell she’s a wonderful teacher. Yesterday she told me about three “sentence frames” that she gave to her room of nine-year-olds to use in talking about writing.
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“Mom, do you think in my life span we’ll ever meet an alien?” It’s early morning, the time when I write and then meditate, which probably brings to mind white honeycomb candles, a certain hushed peace. This is not always, or even often, the case. I’ve got a dog curled solid on my lap, serving
I have active library cards in four counties. Last week, if you’d wandered into the Sebastopol Branch of the Sonoma County Library, you would have found me kneeling as if in prayer before the junior graphic novels section, searching not my heart but the shelves as earnestly as any pilgrim. My kids are obsessed with
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