this is my biannual I-really-need-a-haircut-post and my daily can’t-be-bothered-with-anything-especially-haircuts post, wrapped into one master post

GPOY

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My mom took this picture last year on the way to Stockbridge… I miss Massachusetts today.  Also, every day.  I know, the picture looks kind of fake… but it’s not.

A little bit of what I do during my days… so for Hopkins I’m taking this reading assessments course which is totally inappropriate for pre-k and feels like a general waste of my time.  One of my assignments was to give a spelling inventory to a first grader and determine their spelling stage based on the results.  I figured I’d try an experiment and give it to one of my students, instead… and the results really shocked me.  Here are the words that were administered:

1. fan (“fan”)

2. pet (“pet”)

3. dig (“dig”)

4. rob (“rob”)

5. hope (“hup”)

6. wait (“wat”)

7. gum (“gum”)

8. sled (“sled”)

9. stick (“stik”)

10. shine (“shin”)

11. dream (“jem”)

12. blade (“bld”)

Anyone who knows about early childhood will surely realize that Ezekiel is a freaking genius.  His mastery of initial and final consonants, short vowels, digraphs, and almost all blends, is more typical of a kindergartener or first grader and, in fact, when I gave it to a first grader later in the day, I was again shocked to see Ezekiel did WAY better than that child.  Even the errors he made, such as a j for blend DR in dream, are supposed to be above his developmental level.  According to the Primary Spelling Inventory Feature Guide, Ezekiel is somewhere between late letter-name alphabetic and early within word pattern—or somewhere between mid to late first grade.

He just turned five!  Go Ezekiel!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I really love this child.  I am gonna miss him like hell when he graduates in 4 days.  And not just ‘cause he’s smart, but look how he used a dash when he saw he couldn’t fit his whole name on the same line.  I taught him that!!!!!!!!

some of you may know that i work at the school season 4 of the wire was filmed at/based on, in sandtown.

this is kinda how i felt on the first day of school.  it’s also basically how i expect to feel on the last day of school.  5 more days.  today, not sure if i can make it.

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My partner brought in a treat for us on Friday, and my babes wanted to thank him for it today!  You may notice that I decline to write Mr. before Pat’s name… I thought he would prefer it that way.  Anyway, Blair’s drawing is supposed to be of a robot cooking some eggs.

Pat, this awaits you when you return from your vacation… and p.s. Ezekiel wanted me tell you that you’re “not taller than god” (I told him I wasn’t so sure about that.  And then I made him promise to stop talking to me about god, like I do every day).

noteonthetable:

:*)

cemu:

activist art

egyptianring:

Eleven Heavy Things by Miranda July