Celebrate: Five Star Things About the Week

I always love that Ruth Ayres Writes provides a place to share about the goodness of the week.

ONE

Letting Go.  I am letting go of my hope for a snowfall and embracing our springlike weather.  We had the warmest February in the history of weather. How can you not celebrate spring with these in the yard?

TWO

Time with Husband

My days are long at school.  I am tired when I get home during the week. So yesterday, it was lovely to have a day with DH and go to lunch at a little ma and pa place, drive out to Estacade, OR to a fabulous second hand store, Mikes.

THREE

Poetry Rocks: Performance Poetry is my after school activity this year.  We are planning to perform at the local Barnes and Noble in April. This will be the kick off to a five day book faire.  I hope it goes well.

FOUR

Reading Shel Silverstein out loud.

FIVE

Hopefully located a long lost friend.

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Celebrate: Five Star Things About This Week

Thanks to Ruth Ayres Writes for providing a place to share all the goodness in our lives. And we need to celebrate the goodness.

ONE
Middle and youngest Grandgirls were here for last weekend. So good to see them. As you can see they love to put on shows.

TWO
Receiving these New Year postcards from everywhere. I also sent them out to the group who expressed interest in sharing.

THREE
Having lunch with the top readers for November.

FOUR
Time for research in the library. Learning that sometimes we need to shift our topics if the materials aren’t available.

FIVE
Selecting my One Little Word for this year: OPEN.

Celebrate: Star Things About the Past Few Weeks

Thank you, Ruth for providing a place to share our celebrations each week.

How good to be back. I have missed you all. You see, we left for Disneyland on November 23 along with Thanksgiving with my niece and family and her father, my brother. While we returned the next day, I feel like tonight (this was Friday night and then the WordPress APP on the IPad decided to be cranky) is the first time in a long time that I could take a breath. It’s so nice to be cozy and writing. So here are several celebrations of the last three weeks.

Family

On the plane to Disneyland with daughter, grandgirl, and husband.

With grand girl’s favorites, Jack Skellington and Sally.

With great-nephew and grand girl.

Nature

Bird of Paradise is one of my favorite flowers. We had several bushes of these in my childhood backyard.

The other morning.  My oldest grand girl called this cotton candy sky.

School

Students and Chromebooks.  So excited to get these into the hands of the students.

The Holiday Season

My friend hosts a really fun party every year.  Some people I only see at this time.  She has outfits and hats to wear.

 The Singing Christmas Tree, a Portland tradition for over fifty years.

No pic but buying personally autographed books for my grand girls and great nephews.  I so love doing this.

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Celebrate: Five Star Things About the Week

Saturday is a day to reflect on all the good in past week. Read more at Ruth Ayres Writes.

ONE
Remember how I shared about the donation of muffins from a local church last week. Well, on Monday, they treated he staff to cookies and coffee when we arrived. And hand made cards thanking us for all we do for your students. It was such a great way to begin a week.

TWO

Some one had her first birthday in the double digits. We ate at this fabulous Italian restaurant.

THREE
Gathering with other teacher librarians to talk about technology. Each of our schools are getting Chrome Books on the journey toward 1:1 devices for all students. There’s so many changes a foot in our district and it’s happening so fast.

FOUR
Getting poetry books for review in the mail. Being on the CYBILS means that books not available from the library arrive for some publishers. It’s so exciting receiving the books and reading them. So many good choices!

FIVE

This in the library today. Fifth graders enjoying a magazine. I am working to create more reading spaces in the library.

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Celebrate: Five Star Things About the Week

It’s Saturday. Time to celebrate the week at Ruth Ayres Writes. I love this ritual of each week reflecting on the good in my world.

ONE

Watching oldest grandgirl each week. She’s developing confidence and skills. Today she made three great serves.

TWO
The generosity of a neighboring church to donate eleven dozen muffins for our “Muffins and Moms” event at the book fair on Monday. It’s so wonderful that there’s more outreach between church’s, the police departments and other community agencies with schools. This church has given us lunch buddies, supplies, and time.

THREE
We had a two hour late start due to a little snow and freezing cold weather. This is what the kindergartners said: “Elsa did it because it was ice not snow and it’s not winter yet.” Gotta love them!

FOUR
Weather! We finally had our first frost on Tuesday morning. After a horribly warm October, I am loving the cold temps of this month. Plus the sun! And the anticipation of snow Wednesday night was the best (even though there wasn’t really any where I live but it did snow during Thursday).

FIVE
Writing Group. We met Monday evening. What I love is their honesty and suggestions. The bonus was having Tuesday to write.

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Celebrate: Five Star Things About the Week

It’s Saturday and time to reflect on the week. Thanks to Ruth Ayres Writes for a place to share our celebration.

ONE
Listening to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Little House in the Big Woods.. It’s been a long while since I read the books. I am reminded why I liked her books as a child. There’s so much in the simplicity of her writing that’s yet so descriptive. As I listen, I am thinking what a way for readers to learn about prairie life.

TWO

Fall Leaves.

THREE
Kindergarteners. I was explains that I hope I don't need to use my "cranky pants" voice. A kinder said, "You don't have a cranky pants voice, you are telling us how to take care of the books."

FOUR
I’m celebrating commitment. Last May, I applied to the Darcy Pattison Retreat this coming January. It’s getting time to share our manuscripts with my critique group. I need to finish the polishing and remember it IS a revision retreat. It’s a bit scary to know that in two months we will gather to revise and dig deep. Plus I now have a query letter and synopsis to write as well.

FIVE
Yesterday. Our school had their second annual PE/Music Dash. This year we had a Superheroes theme. And for the first time in many years we were allowed to be really festive. I went with my superheroes being spiders (Grandgirls call me Grandma Spider due to my love of spiders). No pics of my cape so instead I leave you with the following:

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Celebrate: Five Star Things About the Week

It’s Saturday and time to celebrate at Ruth Ayres Writes.

ONE

Celebrating the marriage of my “adopted” niece.

TWO
The annual district in-service day. The new deputy superintendent sat in our library media. As we move to a district with 1:1 devices, our roles are changing. And for the first time in a long time, I feel teacher librarians are being taken seriously.

THREE
Monday I met with my writing group. What I love about my group is the camaraderie and their feedback.

FOUR

Family Library Night, the first one of the year. Bingo and Books is always well attended.

FIVE
Smaller kindergarten classes. This was the first week with the smaller classes. Now instead of twenty-five, each class has eighteen. It’s so much better. Even the students noticed the change.

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Celebrate: Five Star Things About the Week

It’s Saturday; time to reflect on the goodness of the week. Thanks to Ruth we have a place to share at Ruth Ayres Writes.

ONE
Community: I hosted Poetry Friday yesterday. It’s always fun to see who shares poems, originals, and poetry books. Yesterday didn’t disappoint.

TWO
Perseverance: Nothing like awaking early this morning, adding a late entry to Poetry Friday, and clicking something which causes all your work to dissapear. So I needed to persevere and rewrite my Poetry Friday post.

THREE
Friendship: This week, I was able to have lunch dates with friends. The end of summer means catching up with friends in a leisurely way.

FOUR
Students and Parents: Thursday evening we had our annual back-to-school bar-b-que. It was so great to reconnect with families after summer break. Students meet their teachers for the coming year.

FIVE
Poems: I received a poem in the mail this week from Margaret Simon. (plan to share next Friday). The Summer Poetry Swap was a great way to be connected to community and keep writing.

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Celebrate: Five Star Things About the Week

It’s Saturday. Time to celebrate all the goodness of the week at Ruth Ayres Writes.

ONE

Summer vacation has begun as of today!  Our last day of school was yesterday. While bittersweet with eight people leaving us, it was a joyous day. So much love to be shared by students, staff, and parents.

TWO

Last weekend I was at my brother’s graduation from the Southern California Health Institute.  Forty years ago this month I graduated from Lewis and Clark College.  This weekend is our fortieth reunion.  Good to catch up with people.

THREE

Kindergartners who brought me cards for reading to them all year.  Singing “Metamorphosis” with the minders…it’s a song about change.

FOUR

I was accepted into the Darcy Pattison Revision Retreat along with 19 other people. In January 2015 (six months away).

FIVE

Getting my first summer poem in the mail for the Summer Poetry Swap from Diane Mayr.  Thanks, Diane.

 
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Celebrate: Five Star Things About the Week

Today’s the day to reflect on the week. Celebrating all the good things at Ruth Ayres Writes.
I am a bit late today because of number one.

ONE
Today I presented/taught at the 30th Annual Oregon Writing Festival for fourth grade through twelfth grade students. It was my first time to present and what fun. I had two sessions of fourth-fifth graders. We wrote poetry. At the end of the second session a boy wanted me name his hat. I did, “Gregoire.”

TWO
My grant books came in this week:

THREE
Second grade authors’ celebration for their nonfiction writing. In a time when the school day is packed with the “have-tos” that these celebrations can occur.

FOUR
The responses from people receiving their poetry post cards. Several postcards have shown up on blogs. Then a box arrived from Irene Latham with signed bookmarks for the students who sent postcards.

FIVE
My grand girl’s cat had kittens. She reads to them every night.

FIVE.FIVE
The Portland Trailblazers won and move onto the next round.

What are you celebrating?