20something birthday

happy birthday to me!

Another year older- I celebrated my merry unbirthday this year with close friends taking a baking class from PastryPixels and Bonbini.  (PastryPixels is current pastry chef of Luce by the way) Namthip from Bonbini teaches macaron classes from her kitchen- which has been recently renovated into a beautiful learning&cooking space. Afterwards, we all went to Bourbon&Branch for some delightfully, expertly crafted drinks at an authentic speakeasy.

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I'm very grateful for all the wonderful people in my life and I thank you for being a part of it.

Skeleton Book Report

As promised, here is what my students did for their October book reports.  They were assigned to read Mystery Books and then completed skeleton "bones" for their report!

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It was their first book report and they seemed to enjoy it very much.  It was also nice to watch how surprised and delighted they were with the genre.  Afterwards, I bought the class the complete set of "A to Z Mysteries".

2012

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Little boy boy is exhausted! Here's to a new year with new expectations, new goals, and new discoveries!  One of my resolutions is to find more time to blog- and devote even more energy and love into my classroom and my students.

I'm excited to greet room 301 come Tuesday- I hope they completed their homework packets!!! Their book reports better should be awesome! Let's just say the bar was set high because they were able to pick a book of their choice... but the report itself will be in a really fun media. Stay tuned for the post this week!