12-22-10 First Stop, MO

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12-21-10 On the Road Again

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Skyping with India

Tomorrow morning is a big day! My 3rd graders will be Skyping with a family friend, of one of my students, who is currently living in New Delhi, India. We watched a National Geographic Kids video from their website. http://kids.nationalgeographic….

12-5-10 Advent 2010 Project

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Happy Feast Day to all the Barbaras!

Today is the feast day of St. Barbara. So, as I tell my students, you have to celebrate on your name day! I tell them that they must tell their parents that they have to have ice cream after supper. http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-barbara/

Twitter and the Great Idea or A Wiki is Born!

So this morning I took a picture of the Advent wreath at church and that lead to a blog post about my newest digital project. Then, I received a tweet from Nancy Caramanico, @ncara asking if we could share photos with the Catholic schools she work…

My Newest Digital Project

When I was at Podstock this summer, I learned a new educational term. The word was tra-digital. I think my classroom would fit the definition of a traditional classroom with digital projects. Since we are in the season of Advent, I thought Room 11…

Thanksgiving Leftovers 2010

On the East Coast, DH’s family always bought Martin’s Potato Rolls. When we would visit over the Christmas holiday, a very common theme was eating turkey and stuffing sandwiches, chips and pickles on our many outings to the DC museums. As the boys…

What I ate for Thanksgiving 2010

Looks like I’m a member of the Clean Plate Club! After our dinner we went to my younger sister’s house. This piece of pecan pie was made by my older brother. We enjoyed their delicious coffee, ate pie, and visited with the extended family. The kit…

The Thanksgiving Table 2010