One of the most difficult things my students seem to struggle with at the beginning of every new school year is walking in the hallways. Entering 3rd grade, most have been at the same school for four years. However, from the looks of it, you’d think they’d never walked in a line before. From the…
routines
When the Curtain Falls
Over at Diane’s Be the Difference blog (that other blog from The Mailbox), Diane recently asked readers what the first thing was that they did each morning upon arriving at school. For me, it was always a check of my mailbox followed by the trudge up three flights of stairs, then into my classroom. I…
The Day’s End
We think of 12 o’clock in the middle of the day as “noon,” a time when half the day has passed and we are beginning the slide into evening. Some might think of it as the summit after the long climb of morning, and everything after is a downhill slide. Others might think of noon…