9/3: streamlining
...the grading of an assignment I've been using for a few years now. I like it--the students need to collect passages of interest to them from the day's reading assignment--but my system for determining partial credit had gotten too complicated. I'm hopeful that this will be smoother for me and for the students.
9/2: starting verbs
...in Greek. We had a week of preliminaries (alphabet, pronunciation, accenting ground rules, technical terminology for verbs), and it feels good to now be generating and translating forms with the students.
9/1: ducklings
...popped into my head as I was making up English sentences to explain active, middle, and passive voice to the Greek students. I save the duckling. I save the duckling for my own benefit. The duckling is saved. It made me smile, and I think it helped the atmosphere in the classroom.
8/31: a good switch
...in my school-morning breakfast routine. A batch of baked oatmeal with blueberries can last all week. It keeps me more satisfied than cereal, and it has less sugar (and more protein) than the chocolate flaxseed muffins I sometimes make.
8/30: hand-feeding
...Emma the Cat his pill. He is very good about taking it that way, and I am grateful every day that it isn't a contest of wills.
8/29: thinking a little
...about museums in children's literature, prompted by a student's observation yesterday, and enjoying coming up with some new thoughts.
8/28: squeezing in
...some bookbinding. I went to bed thinking about a possible solution to a teaching conundrum (what bindings to include or not in a course), and I woke up wanting to see if a new-to-me binding would be manageable (it was). I also thought of a way to incorporate discussion of some other bindings through examples I'll bring in.
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