Archive for August 23rd, 2014
Celebrating Sky
Posted in Celebration Saturday, Creativity, Gratitude, Teaching, Writing, tagged #nwpianthology, #sky, journal decorating on August 23, 2014| 5 Comments »
Ruth Ayres invites us the celebrate each week. Click over to her site Discover. Play. Build. to read more celebrations.
Every week Kim Douillard puts out a photo challenge from her blog site, Thinking Through my Lens. This week’s challenge word was Sky. Last night we went out to dinner near this pond and the sunset grabbed my attention. Using a filter on my phone, I captured this image.
Original photo (iPhonography) by Margaret Simon taken at Sugar Mill Pond, Youngsville, LA.
This was my first week with my students. It was so much fun to be back with them; although, a few were missing. (Moved on to middle school) We read together, decorated journals, and wrote poems about fireflies and cicadas. Two of my students, 6th grade boys, made me rubber band bracelets. My arm is very colorful.
Arm bands made by 6th grade boys.
Front cover of my journal for this school year.
The back of my journal.
Reflections on the Teche 