Week two
of school is behind me and a glorious three-day weekend as well. The remnants
of Hurricane Isaac have been with us here in central IL for the past three
days, which has led to some delightful reading weather. I made it through the
following books this week:
Hattie
and What You
Know First were rereads. I didn’t include every picture book I read this
week but realized I had never review MacLachlan’s book on Goodreads, so I added
it. Both books were brilliant the second time around. (Although MacLachlan’s is
more like the tenth time)
Cardboard and Drama are both new
graphic novels. My boys will love the action packed style of Cardboard. Drama
is amazing. The story of a girl who works behind the scenes at her school’s
theater department, this is a perfect middle school story.
The
Poetry Friday Anthology is a perfect book for the K-5 teacher who’d like to incorporate more
poetry into the week without a lot of time to do it. The book is organized by
grade level with a poem per week for the entire school year – for each grade
level – with plans! Brilliant!
Finally, Take
Me to the River was given to me by one of my more adventuresome students
last week. He told me it was his favorite book and begged me to read it so “we
can talk”. J How can you say no to it. This is
pure Hobbs – fast paced and action packed.
What’s on
the reading horizon? Who knows? But, I feel I should own up here. On a previous
blog post I said I wanted to be able to say “yes” to these questions each week
to have a successful year. Note my answers on each:
· Did I exercise five times that
week? (Goal – three runs, two “other” workouts) Hmm.
Does running up and down my 40 stairs to my classroom multiple times a day
count? No? Then the answer is 1 workout for the past two weeks. FAIL.
· Did I get a good amount of sleep
five nights of the week? YES
· Did I carve out time to do what
Luke and Liam wanted to do? YES
· Did I try to go out with Chris
once every other week? Yes – 2 weeks ago.
· Did I find time to read and write
each day? Yes – almost a book a day and over eight
blog posts/ articles written in the last two weeks.
· Did I make cooking a great dinner
a priority five nights of the week? Yes! And three
additional meals cooked for my brother, his wife, and their new baby.
· Did I feel good about my role in
the classroom that week? So far, so good.
So I
think I need to focus a bit on the exercise question. All the other ones seem
to be doing well but I know if I let myself slide for too long, I will feel
horrid and it will be harder and harder to recommit. So I’m promising you, my
#IMWAYR friends, that I WILL EXERCISE this week. Please hold my feet to the
flames! J
And now, off to read before bed. Happy Monday!
