"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant" -Robert Louis Stevenson
The past couple of weeks have both flown and crept by. I've been working on focusing on the "long game"--what impacts I can have in the longer term as well as savoring the small victories that I have along the way. So what's been happening recently? I started my lunchtime literacy at school. We've had a couple of good meetings, but then room accessibility became an issue and so they stopped for a bit. Hopefully, I will start again tomorrow. I had one of those great teacher moments this week when we were doing a whole-class lesson on marking short and long vowels (using the breve and macron). My counterpart would say a word and students would write it on their whiteboard and then add in the symbols. One of my lunchtime students proudly called me over and said "Miss, Miss! I made the dots!" The dots are used when we practice aural segmenting--I say a word then students write a dot for every sound they hear in the word, then they add the letters