“today is the last day i will ever be 3.”
“tomorrow when you wake up you will be 4.”
“that is magic.”
“yes, that is magic.”
(conversation i had in my classroom today)
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“it’s alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me.
who you are is not where you’ve been. you’re still an innocent. it’s okay…. ”
― taylor swift
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image credit: bbc, listicle
a trio of kinders, a ring of keys, a door to our classroom….
—
“optimism is the key.”
-will champion
at the asian new year birthday celebration
of our young friend, y
wearing her traditional korean holiday dress
and bowling shoes
with
basketball, rock and roll, and football
playing on the big screens
of the american bowling alley
celebrating with grandies and more friends
indian, african-american, lebanese, irish, iranian, korean
adults, children, babies
all enjoying the fun
all bowling
all sharing a meal
all languages
all blowing out the candles
all toasting
all.
—
“preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”
-cesar chavez
scottish children gave their goldfish a viking funeral
most people could only be so lucky as to receive the kind of funeral that two goldfish in the scottish isle of orkney were given by some children who were learning about vikings.
the pair of classroom mascots, bubbles and freddy, belonged to the 3rd and 4th grade classes of the papdale school in the town of kirkwall, according to the BBC. the fish had been with the students for a few months, but died about a week before the kids were due to learn about the vikings, so it was decided that they would send the pets to valhalla with a viking funeral.
the students created a small fleet of miniature coffin boats to send off the deceased, fashioned out of cereal boxes and egg crates. they also wrote and recited their favorite memories about bubbles and freddy. finally, they led a funeral procession to a nearby stream where the boats were put in the water, and the lead vessel was set on fire.
may bubbles and freddy forever swim in the halls of their warrior heaven, valhalla.
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“to live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.”
― carl sagan
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credits: bbc scotland news, e. grundhauser
the kinders celebrate the return of the sun
with no coats and fast feet and smiles a mile wide.
—
“i’m youth, i’m joy, i’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
-james m. barrie
the downward-facing up on the wall and on your head style
(includes the mysterious vanishing sheets technique)
the get inside of your sheets and try to camouflage yourself in them
while you creep across the floor and think no one will notice style
the fall asleep by accident in spite of yourself
and all of your best efforts to not to style,
while wrapped up in a sweaty and twisted cocoon
made of your own body and bedding.
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“life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.”
-fran lebowitz
when you find a perfect circle of ice
in the bottom of a sand pail
and hold it to the winter’s sun
things become crystal clear.
—
“there is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes
do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.”
-dieter f. uchtdorf
just chillin’ in the polar ice cave
when quite suddenly
a firefighter
from out of nowhere
makes a daring rescue
and
enters stage left.
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“it’s more fun to experience things when you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
-louis c. k.
m organized the world according to the animals.
some live in the water, some with grass and trees, some with sand and stone, and some with snow and ice.
—
“science is organized knowledge. wisdom is organized life.”
-immanuel kant
such a wild adventure
grandie m’s 9th birthday fun
special ops teams, nerf guns, fairy bread, burger bar, headbands, sunglasses and laughs
one powerful team member even offered a great tip
when she warned me:
“never trust a panda with a gun.”
lesson learned.
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‘it’s all fun and games ’till someone loses an eye, then it’s just fun you can’t see.”
-james hetfield
I didn't have my glasses on.... 