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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 Tuesday: Getting Brave

I did it! I finally crafted a work of allegorical fiction. I’ve published the first excerpt this week, and I’ll publish the next part of the story on Slice of Life Tuesdays.

I meant to take it easy on my kiddos today. I really did. They’re just coming back from break, and I was fully prepared for a slow start to ease them back into big ideas, big thinking. It all started when I realized we needed to finish up our conversation about Dr. Seuss’s allegory YertleContinue reading “So Much for a Soft Landing”

On Feeling (not) Useful

Well, it certainly has been a while since I’ve stopped by. I felt the pull to write once again as I am watch my fifth graders craft allegorical stories. Funny thing is, they’re the same group who formed trusted reader circles in fourth grade. And here they are, working with a new set of trustedContinue reading “On Feeling (not) Useful”