Well, tomorrow's the big day. The day to say your lines and say them with FEELING and preferably at the correct time. The day when the audience comes and thus there is NO playing around on pseudo stage. It's finally showcase! Rehearsals today were...

Second grade is going to be abuzz about THIS on Monday! Maybe this year we'll actually have a snow day or two! Last year was a dud for school cancellation, but it really doesn't take much to close school in Washington, DC.

As it turns out, what Jerome and I would talk about today was...still lightsabers. The latest development with Jerome's lightsaber is that is has now become visible. He got his hands on a long thin cylinder from the blue foam blocks and presented it...

I am very much NOT a fan of Star Wars, but Jerome in the other second grade class and I have bonded on the playground over lightsabers. Jerome struck me as the kind of guy who might make a good friend for Sam in my class, so I staged a very...

The bathroom causes no end of problematic situations in elementary school. There's the not making it on time, there's taking too long and playing in the bathroom, not washing with soap or using up all the soap, stalls locked from the inside that have...