by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday. Lavender. Oh, — — the color. — the fragrance. — the sound of the word. All summer long, I enjoy my bed lavender. I can’t walk past it without breaking off a stem and rubbing it between my palms. In the cool of early summer...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Five Minute Friday : Mom 00:00.00 Begin a five minute stream of consciousness on paper. Mom. How do I write in five minutes about you? You are the one who gave me life, Who showered me with unconditional love. You kissed away my boo-boos and told me the great stories...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life. It was our first warm spring day, temps reaching the 80’s. In the northwest, as summer approaches and the earth’s axis tilts toward the sun, the sun is actually closer to us than it is to our southern sister states. And its rays are more...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
Celebrate this Week In the morning. I am enjoying a brilliantly sunny, blue-sky, green-trees, summerishly warm morning. Who knew it would jump from highs in the mid-50s to the highs in the 80s in less than 24 hours? We slept with the windows open and a fan running...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday. On this Friday, to salute chatter that I love and silence that I crave, in memory of my childhood, in memory of my brothers, I share “Little Charlie Chipmunk”– the lines of which I can still recite. Little Charlie Chipmunk Little...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom, Literacy |
Slice of Life. Using giant binder clips, I draped a pocket chart from a low easel at the carpet area. At the bottom of it, I fastened a chart of coordinating conjunctions showing the age-old acronym FANBOYS. I was ready when second graders tumbled into the classroom,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom, Indexed, Literacy |
I flew six thousand miles from Pacific to Atlantic to Pacific to spend three wonderful days teaching in kindergarten through third grade classrooms in two Brooklyn schools. Travel … Here are a couple views from my window in the sky: NYC skyline as we approach...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday. In February, I joined a Facebook poetry-writing group created by Laura Shovan. The group writes poems to ten found words from news articles. On February 16, Ruth Lehrer culled words for #10FoundWords from “The Compost King of New York.” Here...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life: Greenwood I dedicate this post to my dear sister-teacher, Sharon Williams. Her roots grow deep in Greenwood. It is a hot August evening. We drive slowly along the back roads of Wise County, and although the scorching high for the day was 107 degrees, we...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Indexed |
Five Minute Friday and Celebrate this Week. I’m linking up with Kate Motaung for Five Minute Friday where bloggers post their 5 minute free writing inspired by a one word prompt. And I’m linking up with Ruth Ayres where bloggers celebrate each week....
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
Poetry Friday. April showers bring May flowers. RAIN Rain Fell on the roof Dripped steadily from eaves Ran in crooked courses Splattered against windows Came gushing out downspouts Upset plans –found in Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White © 2015 Alice Nine...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate this month — Easter Sunday is coming. I am celebrating Easter this month.I took a poem I drafted a few years ago and revised it and gave it a title, “This I Believe,” This I Believe Jesus said, “I am he who lives,And was dead,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
00:00:00 (five minutes to write) GO Empty. So often empty precedes want, need, heartache, sorrow, barrenness, vacant, futility. A hungry child holds an empty plate. The milk jug is empty. The flour canister is empty. The cupboards are empty, bare. The gas tank is...
by Alice Nine | In My Classroom, Literacy |
Poetry Friday. An Interactive Poetry Notebook. Last year, I shared a post about my interactive poetry notebook: Poetry Notebook: Day One. In this post, I’ll share pointers for Day Two. Whereas Day One is about listening–letting the poem flow over...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life. Solving Problems Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. –Roger Lewin Big brother TM has been working on his math lesson at the table, and now Mom’s checking his work with him. EM, the...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate this Week — Palm Sunday. This week I celebrate with rejoicing as I remember the Triumphal Entry of Jesus in a story-telling moment, in a music moment, and in a reflective moment. Small moments that are part of my life of faith. A story-telling moment:...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
As Easter draws near, I am pondering Jesus’ question, “Whom are you seeking?” Have you ever experienced a time when your mind seems to open and in a fleeting moment, you clearly understand something in a deeper dimension? I had such an experience during a...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
Poetry Friday. Just in case you have somehow missed it, April is Poetry Month! So, on this first #PoetryFriday of Poetry Month, I decided to share a poem about poetry that I found in words of Seamus Heaney. In case you don’t know Seamus Heaney, here’s a...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. — Dale Carnegie I was very young when I learned that my last name was too hard. Before I entered first grade, my mama had taught me how to spell it,...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Celebrate this Week . Celebrating Completion of a Challenge This week, the 10th Slice of Life Story Challenge over at Two Writing Teachers wrapped up. For one incredible month, I blogged day after day with several hundred other writers. On Friday, over 100 of us...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Literacy |
Poetry Friday. Slice of Life March Challenge. No.31. During the March 2017 Slice of Life Challenge I have written nonsense verse on a couple occasions. I didn’t set out to write nonsense verse any one of the times. Perhaps if I had done so intentionally, I would have...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, For Fun |
Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 30. On my post yesterday Kevin (aka dogtrax) threw out a challenge in the his comment, and I took him up on it . . . in a way. This morning I gathered 112 blog names from Slicers who had posted for the 29th day on Two Writing...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Literacy |
Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 29. I stopped by Kim K’s Blog post today and enjoyed her poem created from the titles of her March slices. Why not? I thought. And so, I crafted the titles of 28 slices into a poem. It was fun, and I must say I was doubtful...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, Literacy |
Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 28. Backstory of yesterday and today’s posts. Last year, during #SOL16, I revised a draft about a childhood memory, a first grade memory, “The Day My Teacher Died.” The next day I wrote about how I revised that...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life March Challenge. No. 27. x This is my mother-in-law’s story. Prologue. Over the course of several years, she suffered a series of strokes and finally one left her without the power of speech. While we were home for a visit, Carl and I took her for...
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