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Wiggle Calendar 3: The Treaties of Vienna In an effort to differentiate from previous Wiggle Calendars, every Tuesday this month will be dedicated to a specific region’s food, music, art, or other distinguishing characteristics (and …

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Wiggle Calendar 2: AIM Research to Practice Symposium Just behind working with students, the thing Melissa misses most about her work is engaging in professional learning. She is constantly on the lookout for ways to grow as a teacher, even if most of…

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Wiggle Calendar 1: Ice Cream Sundae Party Sometimes fate smiles down at us and we are rewarded with an unexpected treat. Snow days come to mind. A leftover $20 at an ATM. Or, in the case of our first Wiggle Calendar event of March 2026, a …

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Beyond Rubrics When my sister was in elementary school, she was given an assignment: all the students in her ELA class were asked to write an ending to Frank Stockton’s classic cliffhanger short story, &#82…

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Happy birthday to the most beautiful woman and the best mom in the world! I love you!

What’s the likelihood of Beane trading Van de Mark to the Bucs for a 6?

Welcome, Summer What we’ve been doing with our summer: Strawberry shortcake at Chase Farms Visiting RMSC (Dawsonoceras americanum) Playing outside Asking for ice cream Playing with our water table Celebrating 9 ye…

Summertime
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Dawson Noises Dawson makes a lot of noises. Almost all of them are loud and all of them are cute. However, unlike other toddlers, Dawson doesn’t express his various emotions with different, corresponding sounds.…

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Scenes I. On a yoga mat, beside a thin partition “Bring your hands together and find your center. Say a gentle ‘om’ with me.” “LET’S GO, LADIES! 1, 2, 3, 4! 1, 2, 3, 4!…

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Dad, Mom, Dawson Dad at Work I’m not entirely sure what I expected from my new role as Director of Technology. After all, I really haven’t had much experience with anything outside of classroom teaching…

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Wiggle Calendar 4: Baby Olympics The champions entered the stadium to the blast of trumpets and roll of drums. Onlookers gazed in awe at the wondrous athletes processing down the main avenue, each with an expression of solemnity s…

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Wiggle Calendar 3: Plan 10-Year Anniversary Trip We’ve been on a number of fun trips together within the continental U.S. and Canada (NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Toronto, ADK) but never overseas. Melissa went to London with D…

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Wiggle Calendar 2: Cà phê Muối I wouldn’t accuse our household of any snobbery, with the possible exception of coffee-drinking. Even so, our normal vessel for caffeine is a plain mug of black coffee from a drip machine, ha…

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Wiggle Calendar 1: Facing Forward As I said before, I tried to avoid any repeats of events from last year’s Wiggle Calendar, but it turns out there’s only so much to do in the late winter months in the Finger Lakes. We …

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The Wiggle Calendar Returns It’s that time of year. The ground is covered with brown snow and ice. The sky is grey. Ash Wednesday is around the corner. Teachers look at their calendars and realize with a sort of fatal d…

A tradition like no other.

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Go Bills!

We love Mama!

Adding Marilla Cuthbert Makes Every Book Better “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a…

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#booksky

#bookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#booksky

#bookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#booksky

#bookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#booksky

#bookchallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#booksky

#bookchallenge