Sarah Puglisi

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What Can I Be Thankful For In Teaching, a Photo Record

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 10:15 pm
... 39;s: abc activity Sept. 23, 2008 38 photos And Asian Art: Asian Pacific Art, Pasadena,... 246 photos B I am thankful .....
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Mom

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 9:18 pm
Today I actually went to the store. Really hard, I have a herniated disc, and I think things are worse than I'm realizing/communicating, and have not been up in two weeks. But the kids are coming ...
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Take This Broken Wing And Learn To Fly

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 2:49 pm
The toughest part of having taught twenty some years ago in South Central was kids died. And other kids knew it. Even as young as in the 4th grade. Younger. But I taught 4th at 93rd Street School, an...
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An article my Mom recommends reading

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 2:00 pm
It seems almost amazing this is a "discovery" But it is an article to read The New York Times Their Future Is Ours My Mom handed it to me insisting I read it.
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I'm Getting Older Too

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 1:53 am
We're Getting Older Too Pills haunt my morning, swallow wash, Hold the banister Thoughts look at toilets, limits Bills, always bills, and guilt. Losing the reasons. Arguing finds us selectively ...
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Recovery and Resilience, Falling Skies

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 11:32 am
Fallin' Sky It broke, my back In pieces like the Legos My nephew has in piles on his bedroom floor Tucked in plastic containers like fly fisherman ties Heads, arms, weapons Pull to find what you ...
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War and Peace

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 4:02 pm
I've been thinking about war. For one thing several important decisions are about to be made. And my friends have children facing war. Kids already having made sacrifices in service. I admire my f...
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Too Much Back Pain For Talkin

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 8:04 pm

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Why Do We Allow Poverty?

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 12:43 pm
I read a good article by Susan Ohanian. On the Huffington Post. I saw it linked on my Facebook. I want to cut and paste it here just fearing the link will stop working but I'll link it and then ho...
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Not An Easy Time

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 4:59 pm
If you wear pink for Breast Cancer Awareness, then I think you might want to learn about Syringomyelia. I'm an expert in the sense I have it. I don't know much in terms of medical information ...
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"I Can't"

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 7, 2009, 9:26 pm
On Friday morning before class started I was prepping for the AM. We have routines that we do, ELD-English Language Development ( in which we use a structure from English and practice it putting it in...
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More Time Less Time All Time

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 8:06 am
Tick Tock When a clock is ticking a morning feels Brief, counted Waits between ticks and tocks A life can pass Like this Managed Scheduled Filler between appointments On a hummingbird The story was...
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"Let's Look Around"

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 9:29 pm
The current theme in my literature program is "Let's Look Around" and interestingly the week had some fascinating ways we started engaging in this perspective as a "way of being." My partner teach...
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Time

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 10:01 pm
I'm thinking about time. Mostly because I'm teaching it. I'm uncomfortable with how it's being taught in the mandated program in 1st grade. Both in the definitions, and in the activiti...
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Time

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 6:41 am
I've been hearing this echo lately about time Moving quickly Moving on Time having no dimension It's even come home in a pop psychology book My spouse says he's studying it Exploring it Ch...
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Hey, Gotta great thing to share....take five and see...

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 1:55 pm
Well it's my own site. All about idioms, we just hit ten. Try out Talking about Talking. As we talk about the way we communicate one to another, here, there, in, out, trying to say...we care enou...
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Is It Another Stroke?

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 5:56 pm
I've been out a couple days from work with illness, flu I guess. I'm not sure but my stomach is the worst for the wear. There is a lot of stress in our work, it contributes to ill health. Ther...
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Pumpkin Pumpkin

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 12:19 am
Today we met our nephews and went to the Pumpkin Patch down at Underwood Farms. It's always bright and beautiful. I think, think the flu is catching me though, have a fever and headache tonight......
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A Penny Saved Is A Penny Earned

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 8:17 am
We are fully invested in being a "textbook" textbook implementation of Everyday Math. And my lessons Friday required study of the penny, the worth or amount, how they are minted, value, counting, numb...
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Happy Birthday to Luca!

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 7:55 am
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Shocking News:Education Week: State of Mind

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 10:22 pm
Education Week: State of Mind Shared via AddThis
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Sunflower work

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 8:47 am
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In the face of the sunflower

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 4:06 pm
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Working in a Stranger's Land I read today about a...

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 9:54 am
Working in a Stranger's Land I read today about a whale through a poem written by a man I see as a boy banging on the metal of a mailbox written about a whale that landed in a lake, just like I d...
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Oxnard Earthquake

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 12:03 am
WE just had a 3.2 earthquake centered here. It jolted me awake. A minor earthquake occurred at 9:53:44 PM (PDT) on Friday, October 16, 2009. The magnitude 3.2 event occurred 6 km (4 miles) ...
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Trying Something New

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 14, 2009, 8:22 pm
I'm making a NEW blog for my class, as they are making an idiom for everyday. I'd put their work here, but I'd like to give the address to parents and other interested visitors that might ...
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"My" Hummingbirds

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 8:06 pm
I have three little hummingbirds I know. At around 5:30 to 6 PM every night they come into the feeder and make an appearance. There are a lot of ratty looking things that I have planted for them. And ...
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Just Another Day In The Life

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 11, 2009, 1:09 pm
School is going nicely. Lots to do and long hours. Leaving before 5 is impossible, arriving after 7 is impossible. So it is with teaching. I have a pile of data on my 1st grade Sheltered Immersion st...
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Blooms Fade Away

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 1:24 am
Woman's Search For Meaning Once again I needed To just ask someone, So I asked a friend If our relationships with men are Just about am I thin, beautiful, young Am I a body, mostly? Well, duh, y...
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Poems for Sophia

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 8:49 pm
Mirror Is it possible to hold a mirror Up to echo what's past? And she did that for me I tried closing my eyes Never looking in the glass But she is there Don't ask the question Snow White...
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Happy Birthday Sophia

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 11:14 am
I actually tried to recall 'My 18th Birthday' when we were out at dinner as an afterthought on my daughter's 18th. Not as an expression of "it's about me," because it wasn't. In no...
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And So it's your birthday.....(On the Eve of a daughter's birthday)

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 8:49 am
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi I read today is his birthday. Yeah on Google. So I hear that old tune in my head, " today ...
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Shower The People You Love

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 5:46 pm
I wrote my father a letter on his birthday. He was traveling it seems to Cleveland Clinic for his birthday. He lives back east, I live in CA and I had no idea he was traveling on his birthday. It was ...
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Our Dragonfly

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 7:59 pm
Post 884....wow, me, who would have thought, A Dragonfly! I took this picture today of a critter we caught at school. 1st graders are good at spotting things. I think it's a wonderful picture. Ac...
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I'm Late

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 8:50 am
Going out the door....... taking kids to the Fire Department today....
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Back To School

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 8:26 am
It's either Back to School or Open House tonight. I always get the title jumbled. I'm not remotely ready, but mostly people come to ask how their child is doing. I handle that one of several ...
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"Will I Be A Reader For Life?"

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 10:30 am
I have wanted to write for a long time about Reading Rainbow. Not that I haven't blogged about my use of the program in my 27 year career. I have previously shared these connected posts: For a ...
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Blocked

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 8:43 am
One of my favorite Susan Ohanian comments occurred on this page so I want to ENCOURAGE you to read it. Frankly I doubt I'm read, but I'll put it here as a show of support- at the least- in the...
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Bugs With Your Rice

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 8:01 pm
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Education Week: Expected Turnaround Aid Has Districts Eager, Wary

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 7:53 pm
This is the reality I get to face. And since I'm working in a poverty school I look at this and I wonder what more you want to do to us. I voted for this President. I voted for this low level of u...
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Waiter Rant As Antidote*

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 17, 2009, 4:40 pm
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter (P.S.) I got this book a week f...
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For September 11

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 11, 2009, 4:30 am
... daughter wrote a poem on one of those 9-11 days remembering. While helping me teach my 1st ... evaluate this book, but it will send you to it I think. It should.... the poets in the book are a...
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The Parking Lot

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 9:33 pm
Responding to increasing "reports" of failure, as the testing in education nears the years when 100% success is required, scientific validity is demanded, our school responds with an interesting varie...
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Reflections on A Child Named Sylvia Mary On the Occasion of a Birthday Spent Apart ( 20 poems, 20 birthdays)

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 4:16 pm
Happy Birthday To A Twenty Year Old Daughter An exquisite kind of memory was brought to me Today as your cousin posted her family's Photograph of happy girls taken when we last Blinked our eyes, ...
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Reflections on A Child Named Sylvia Mary On the Occasion of a Birthday Spent Apart ( 20 poems, 20 birthdays)

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 5, 2009, 11:22 pm
Happy Birthday To A Twenty Year Old Daughter An exquisite kind of memory was brought to me Today as your cousin posted her family's Photograph of happy girls taken when we last Blinked our eyes, ...
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Dear President Obama

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 7:54 pm
Well MY suggestion, unasked, to President Obama is to fund schools in CA so that class-size doesn't get any larger and that teachers are not fired, oh that's the euphemism for let go, excuse m...
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"I have something very important I need to be doing in my classroom"

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 7:04 pm
Essentially the title of this piece is a punchline. After all I'm studying humor and children. Today brought an opportunity for me to look at an incident in "several ways." One of my 1st grade st...
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Monster in The Middle

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 3, 2009, 12:44 am
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Fire and Rain on this September 1st

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 11:48 pm
Tonight I was sitting in my kitchen reading a friend on Amazon, he left a poem for me to think about. Today is September 1 and in 1939 he was telling me this was the night the lights went out. The poe...
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Livescribing

Sarah Puglisi posted an article on - Aug 31, 2009, 2:16 pm
This really strikes me as the most incredible idea. I'd never heard of it before, but Judith Green shared her pen with me on the weekend. Meeting others and going out in the world can really give ...
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I am a teacher, mom and artist. I blog about things generally from daily life.

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