These are taken over a few years, and you can tell that by my friends’ clothes and my hairstyles. But my outfits? Apparently I wear my space scarf and purple cardigan to every class day, and I wear my BostonFIG shirt and red flannel to every event outside school. Ok, fine, these are most on-brand outfits, but I swear I own more than 2 sets of clothes.
Central photo: Gabe and I are holding tupperware at a school party to sneak some extra dumplings home for Sydney and Harold… but when the Chinese moms who’d cooked everything found out we wanted to take some home, they piled more and more dumplings on. So much food!
Top right: My second-grade babies. Little Bonnie was one of my sweetest second-grade students, and then I helped tutor her in reading the next year. One day, she wrote her homework in invisible ink to prank me, and I almost died. Her mom’s my FB friend now so I can keep watching her grow up.
Bottom right: A few years ago, one of my students, Carol, absolutely KILLED this clue in classroom Taboo, with “in Meg’s favorite city, the big monkey climbs this.” It was just perfect. I remember it so clearly because it such an amazing use of context and limited vocab. Anyway, Carol is a student services officer at our school now. I guess she remembers that day too.
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