Working Together

I am fortunate to work with an amazingly creative technology person.  We are located next to each other in my school.  This morning I volunteered to show our 1st graders a movie while their teachers were occupied elsewhere.  As I was debating what to show them, the creative tech person offered to give up her 4th grade computer class to allow them to read to the 1st graders.  Yahoo!

We had 15 minutes prep time with the 4th grade which included selecting books they liked as a "kid" or books they thought 1st graders might like, practicing reading the books aloud, then pairing them up with 1st grade buddies and letting them loose in the library to read.  The boys all loved it.  One 4th grader was overheard saying, "This makes me feel like a grown-up."

My First Post

Please indulge me and allow me this first post.  I think that everyone's first post announces that this is their first post and as much I am trying to resist doing so I can't.  So here I go...THIS IS MY FIRST BLOG POST EVER.  Wow that was cathartic -- it felt good to get that out!

I've been thinking about blogging for a while, but never thought I had much to add to all the great conversations about books, schools, and boys.  I like to think that I like to try new things, but it seems that folks from my generation are a bit resistant to publishing their thoughts online. 

I'm going to start small with an initial goal of posting weekly.