Life In Notes

One of my favorite weeks is Reading Week.  Reading Week has been a little different the last few years due to COVID and restrictions on visitors, etc.  This year, the administration did a fantastic job bringing in guest readers, having a Bingo For Books event, having a book fair and creating time to Drop Everything And Read. In Room 207, we had FOUR guest readers.  Everyone from a former sports writer, to an educational leader in Providence Schools, to an on-air DJ to the father of one of our administrators. Each time we had a visitor, the students listened, asked questions about the book...then asked questions about their lives.  To meet these four amazing people and hear their stories (and how they use reading in their lives) was a treat for the class. Una de mis semanas favoritas es la Semana de la Lectura. La Semana de la lectura ha sido un poco diferente en los últimos años debido a COVID y restricciones a los visitantes, etc. Este año, la administración hizo un...

  Resolve - as in to solve; to find an answer for through reasoning As in...one of my favorite parts of teaching is watching the resolve of some of my students.  A few years ago I was fascinated that one of my multilingual learners in my class was writing an entire essay in Spanish, then putting it through Google Translate to get it into English (which is the opposite of what I do with this blog). The photo above is from a student that was having difficulty remembering what his prime and composite numbers were...so he pulled up a list of prime numbers and split his screen so that he would be able to use it as a reference. Is it cheating?  No.  It is finding a reference and leaning on it until you remember it.  There is a good possibility that this student will remember their prime and composite numbers better than most because this reference is staring them in the face. That is resolve.  Resolver - como en resolver; encontrar una respuesta a través del raz...