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Slice of Life Tuesday: The Power of Youth

Lately, I’ve been sharing the first, second, and third parts of my allegorical story. It’s a piece of fiction I wrote alongside my fifth graders. Here’s the final installment. Enjoy!

Slice of Life Tuesday: Power of Youth, Part Three

Here’s the third installment of my allegorical story. Enjoy!

Slice of Life Tuesday: The Power of Youth, Part Two

Here’s the second installment of my latest work of fiction, “The Power of Youth.” Pretty proud of this one…

Slice of Life Tuesday: The Power of Youth

Here is the first installment of a fiction story I wrote alongside my fifth graders. Enjoy!

Slice of Life Day 18: Back to Fiction

I’ve started crafting a work of short allegorical fiction along with my fifth-graders. Gotta keep up my “street cred” somehow.

Clearing the Air: The Finale

A notebook that reads "Ridiculously Good Ideas"

For the past several weeks, I’ve been posting my allegorical short story in serial form.

Today I bring you the conclusion as Flora comes to the rescue…

Slice of Life Tuesday: Clearing the Air, Part 3

This week marks Episode Three in the Floofs vs. Naysayers saga. Will Flora’s appeal to her fellow Floofs succeed?

Slice of Life Tuesdsay: Clearing the Air, Part 2

Last week, I mentioned that I finally – finally! – completed a work of allegorical fiction, and I posted the first installment of it here.

This week, I bring you Part 2, in which Flora, our ever-intrepid protagonist, finds herself in the right place at the right time. Enjoy.

Slice of Life Day 21: Coming Together

A collage of squirrels looking at a tree

It wasn’t expressly planned, but it was a very happy coincidence that the days before spring break turned out to be the days my fourth graders and I constructed the artwork for our Leo Leonni anthology. We’re still a work in progress (I mean, aren’t we all?) but I thought I’d share the latest.

Slice of Life Day 8: Fiction, Part 2

Yesterday, I posted a fictional story I crafted along with my students in the style of Leo Leonni. I put myself in the hot seat and let the kids do a “table read” of my work. I sat to the side with and zipped my lip while they read and discussed my story. I wasn’tContinue reading “Slice of Life Day 8: Fiction, Part 2”