I am a mommy to Maelin who is 8 and loving third grade. I'm a step-mommy to Kora who is also 8 and is the best little artist you've ever seen. I'm a wife, a teacher in a low-income school district, a friend, and doing my best to balance it all. And every once in a while...I'll write about it..
Maelin and Me
Pumpkin Patch Time
Thanks For Visiting!
Maelin Anne
This is the face I get when I ask her to smile...kinda think it's cute
Spanish Steps: Rome, Italy
You may not even recognize the Spanish Steps here due to the fact that they aren't covered with people: tourists, locals drinking their birra and vino, flowers everywhere, people trying to sell you stuff, musicians and drum circles and all sorts of lovers making out and hugging and enjoying the atmosphere. But where are these people? It was springtime in Rome and it was raining...I got soaked standing there just staring at the empty steps and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Attempt at Photography
I took this picture in Victora, Canada during the summer when all the flowers were so striking and gorgeous. I blew this picture up for a friend's office and he says it calms him every time he looks at it...I'll take that.
We are second graders at Alsup Elementary School in Commerce City, CO. We love reading and writing and we are very excited to share it with you! Please feel free to rate us and give us your comments!
"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Irish-American family struggling against poverty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. This is my all-time favorite book and you MUST read this at least once in your lifetime. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, it is available in 31 different countries and it has been hearlded as "The Great Amercian Novel"
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a heart-wrenching novel about what it means to be a good parent, a good person and a good sister. Kate has had cancer since childhood and her younger sister Anna was concevied to be a perfect-match bone marrow donor for her. As Anna grows up, she struggles with how she and world will see the rights of her own body. This novel is the first book in years that had me crying. It was very well written and very enjoyable if you're in the mood for a tear-jerker.
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about a nomadic, deprived childhood told with the wonderment of a child who always wants to believe that Daddy will be a hero in the end and that Momma really does know best. You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender. It's a riveting story and a testament to Walls' desire to rise above a life that could have easily turned her into just another tragic headline. I really appreciated this story because of the very real probability that some of my students are living this very life.
One of my favorite authors (I have everything she's ever written) is Marian Keyes whose stories are set in Britian or Ireland. She is the internationally bestselling author of Watermelon (which is my favorite), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, The Last Chance Saloon, Angels, Sushi for Beginners, Under the Duvet, and her latest, The Other Side of the Story. Her books have touched readers around the world, and they are now published in 35 countries and in many different languages.
2 comments:
Oh No!! I can't see it! National Jewish has blocked it as nudity :(
Sad Aunt Kat
Nudity????? That's insane. Mae is just in her skirt and rainboots...go to my fb profile oage to see it
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