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Truckers vs. Convoy-ers and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Posted on 10 February, 202212 February, 2024 by dilovelyadmin

It’s now been almost two weeks since the “Freedom Convoy” truckers and allies rolled into downtown Ottawa and started honking their horns, ostensibly to protest vaccine mandates. As Canadians know, many protesters left the area after that first weekend, but some are still there and still making noise. Well, not just noise, but according to…

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The Diversity of YouTube – Gratitude Day 19

Posted on 19 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

Today, I’m feeling grateful for YouTube. It feels funny that I can remember the babyhood of YouTube even though so many people I spend time with every day cannot (because they weren’t even born). I remember thinking, “Who is going to watch random strangers doing inconsequential things in their living rooms?” Turns out, almost everyone!…

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A Message to the Anti-Masker

Posted on 9 October, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

To the anti-mask woman I encountered recently in Shoppers Drug Mart, You don’t know me. We haven’t had a conversation, even though I was tempted to start one. I simply witnessed you entering a busy Shoppers. I was right behind you as you came through the automatic doors, breezing past the hand sanitizer without slowing…

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Pearls of Grade 3 Wisdom

Posted on 8 December, 2016 by dilovelyadmin

I teach a group of Grade 3 French Immersion students English for 40 minutes a week. They are mostly a very sweet and funny group. We’ve been working on poetry, including a poem with a template called “I Am.” The first two words of each line are given, and then they fill in the rest….

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A Little Faith in Humanity from Remembrance Day

Posted on 15 November, 201616 November, 2016 by dilovelyadmin

Hi, lovely di-hards. It’s been an emotional week, n’est-ce pas? Right around this time last Tuesday, there was a disbelieving dread building on my Facebook news feed. I could hardly bear to look at the actual stats. My daughter had strep throat; we all slept badly, and felt ill the next day – on so many levels….

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#NaBloPoMo, Day 19: Questions excellentes

Posted on 19 November, 2015 by dilovelyadmin

Today at school, we talked a little bit about Paris. I showed my Grade 4s and 5s that little boy and his dad – not just because the vocabulary (très, méchant, gentil, fleurs, maison, etc.) is right on point, but because when they see a child, they instinctively relate. Two days a week, I have…

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#NaBloPoMo, Day 12: Teachers

Posted on 12 November, 2015 by dilovelyadmin

I am what they call a “planning teacher,” which means I am always teaching the students from other people’s homerooms, when their regular classroom teacher is doing his or her planning. At the moment, I work with four different groups of students in Grades 4 to 6. This job means that I get a unique…

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#NaBloPoMo, Day 2: Perfect Storm

Posted on 2 November, 2015 by dilovelyadmin

  It’s not just Monday. It’s the Monday after Halloween, a few days off the full moon. The kids had a three-day weekend (Friday PA day). And we just changed the clocks. School was a bit wacko today. It would figure that – less than 24 hours after I’d mentioned how well the kids were sleeping…

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Be The Calm

Posted on 15 September, 201515 October, 2015 by dilovelyadmin

It was a busy summer. Just so you know, that’s the usage of the word busy where it actually means overwhelming-and-sometimes-stressful-enough-to-make-me-think-I-might-lose-my-marbles. And that’s despite summer vacation, and my school being closed for renovations. We bought a house in June, right before end-of-school craziness; we beautified and sold our house in July; we packed in August, and moved on…

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100 Happy Days – Day 4: Silence

Posted on 10 November, 201416 December, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

There are two kinds of silence that made me happy on Day 4. One was in my 5/6 Core French class. They are a class that is, as a group, not great at self-regulation. Many of them have great difficulty stopping themselves from saying whatever they feel like saying, whenever they feel like saying it, in whatever language (i.e. English,…

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