have kindle... will travel

sunglasses, check

chocolate, check

cash, not much, but check

books... no... not this time.... I have a kindle!

Tomorrow I'm headed off to National Writing Project's Annual Meeting in Orlando.  I'm so excited! It's my first time to travel with my new kindle.  I can reread favorites or professional stuffy stuff or just for fun paper backs.... all in a nice little techy package that is less than 9 ounces.  

just reading

When I opened up my computer to write this little blurb, I thought would start with a peek into a conversation.  Then I realized that wouldn’t work.  It won’t work because no one was talking.  We were reading.  The students were reading.  All of them were reading…. well, maybe some were just looking at pictures.   Now this is not a special population of students.  It’s just another group of 6^th graders who had many other ideas about what they would rather be doing.  But for this one point in time, we read together. 

Hmmm…… how does a rowdy bunch of 6^th graders settle in for a 20 minute “SSR” time?  Is it timers? PBS tickets? Candy? Threats?

No, I just sat down and read.