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Haiku for Poetry Month
Trey Ratcliff via Compfight Summer beckons me warm breezes, cold water toes in the Atlantic sea We wrote haiku poems in class today, and I have to share out a few from the nearly 100 that blaze a...
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Our Student Blogs are Open for Visitors…Come On Over!
After giving another blogging platform a go earlier in the year, I’m back to Edublogs. I love Edublogs, and the autonomy that it provides my students delivers a learning experience unparalleled by...
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Virginia Born and Bred
While I haven’t lived in Virginia all of my life, the Old Dominion is where I’ve spent most of my life. Raised in Yorktown, Virginia, where the Revolutionary War was won, I’ve traveled all over...
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Make a Connection – Shrink the World
credit: presentermedia.com There are 7.4 billion people in the world, and you only know a handful of them. It’s time to do a little globetrotting and meet some of your student peers around the world....
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World Refugee Day is Today, June 20, 2016.
World Refugee Day is today, Monday, June 20, 2016. According to the most recent figures from the United Nations, there are more than 65 million refugees in the world. That means that one of every 113...
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Six Word Memoirs – A New Year with Eighth Graders
Blossom outside of your comfort zone. We’ve shared a mere week together, and yet I couldn’t be more thrilled to spend the next 175 school days with these extraordinary young people…fresh-from-summer...
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Rule Number One: Read The Rule of Three!
photo credit: Amazon.com Before reading The Rule of Three, I didn’t have one Eric Walters YA novel on my sixth grade bookshelf. Shame on me! After gulping down the 405 pages of this high velocity book,...
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Thirteen Things You Probably Wouldn’t Know About Mrs. Rombach–Unless You...
Create your own avatar at mybluerobot.com. ThIrtEen: When my entire family traveled to Ireland and, one by one, took their lives into their hands to buss the Blarney Stone, I refused to risk life and...
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Meet My Bloggers
Tsahi Levent-Levi via Compfight This is my second year sponsoring a blog club here at Eagle Ridge, but our numbers are dwindling weekly. I need to figure out a way to make blogging more exciting–maybe...
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Summer Reading Recommendation: Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
photo by Amazon If you devoured the twisted ending of E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars, then you’ve got to read Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone. This YA book is a standout because it confronts teen...
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