Working in Education through the Language Lens

For a few weeks now I've had a somewhat skewed outlook on the world. Literally! My wipers were not performing well and during this rainy fall season here in Northern Kentucky, their lack of performance has proven a tad dangerous. I finally made the time to stop by my husbands shop and have him change them out.  Unclip - whack - clip - fwop!  2 minutes later and I'm looking out of an incredibly clear window. We always have these options when we see something: a) look away and ignore b) look away and think about it c) look and do nothing d) look and react e) look with a open mind f) look with a changed mindset So let's play with this scenario - (insert your own here)  This is an actual scenario that happened while stopping in Mt. Washington, Maryland to meet a friend from our PTcamp, from this past summer, and has extended to an amazing PLN (connected through voxer). We stopped at a light at an offramp into a neighborhood, a rather busy intersection an

It's Fall festival week and teachers have gone all out decorating their doorways for our upcoming fall festival. Unfortunately I cannot attend this year - however I wanted to use the opportunity to have my pullout students set up an interactive door! I LOVE cognates. I find them fascinating - and a good transition lesson in teaching Idioms which are such a slippery slope (see what I did there?!) Before you attempt your own uses with the "orange words": the following sentences are by my 2nd graders: *Let's fall in love! (my model) * I fell down the stairs. *Falling into a leaf pile *I fell over a bunch of apples. *When the leaves fall off and they start to change color. *When I was sleeping, I fell out of bed. My fourth grader contributed this idiom: *I took a test, my score is 95%, and I fell short of my goal of 100%.