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	<title>The Learning Curve</title>
	<link>http://journal.starwidget.net</link>
	<description>First year teacher extraordinaire!</description>
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		<title>Um&#8230; it&#8217;s February? I mean&#8230; almost March&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to write. I&#8217;ve been meaning to tell about all the things &#8211; ALL THE THINGS &#8211; that have happened this year. 
So much. Not enough time.
In fact, I&#8217;m in the middle of lesson planning for this week, and I really should get some sleep.
I&#8217;ve cried and yelled and nearly given up several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2009/02/23/um-its-february-i-mean-almost-march/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;GO!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Day one finished.
179 to go.
Holy shit!
(Too tired to talk about it now, but there will be more substantial updating this week.)
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		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2008/08/25/go/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;set&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Open House came and went with a decent crowd and much broken Spanish.  I have a class of eighteen: nine boys, nine girls, ten black, and eight hispanic.  Two of my students speak no English (Spanish and Chatino, an indigenous language of Mexico that is nothing like Spanish), and I have two students [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2008/08/23/set/</link>
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		<title>Ready&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Teacher Orientation is done.  I have been inside my classroom.  Teacher workdays (read: meetings ALL DAY) start tomorrow&#8230; 
My room was completely empty when I came in&#8230; I had nothing except a teacher desk, a kidney table, some chairs, two bookshelves, an overhead, and computers.  I don&#8217;t have any textbooks.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2008/08/17/ready/</link>
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		<title>Here it goes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I start new teacher orientation on Wednesday.  I&#8217;ll be teaching 3rd grade and I&#8217;m very excited about this.  I cannot wait to get into my classroom and get it all set up, though the whole process is a bit intimidating!
So much to do, so little time!
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		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2008/08/11/here-it-goes/</link>
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		<title>What a year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m finishing up my student teaching, this week.  Wow.
It&#8217;s been a long, hard year &#8211; and I&#8217;ve accomplished quite a bit.  I wish I had documented more as I went, but I had a hard enough time keeping my head above water.  Maybe over the next couple weeks I&#8217;ll be able [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2008/04/22/what-a-year/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Teaching first graders to cough&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is also its inspiration.  It&#8217;s a search string that brought somebody here, and I was actually disappointed when I realized that my site probably didn&#8217;t help them at all.
I have first graders.  They cough.  I try to teach them how to do it without expelling their ick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2008/02/25/teaching-first-graders-to-cough/</link>
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		<title>Classroom management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the age-old question.  How should I manage the behavior of my students?  Everyone gets pretty heated about this issue, because there are such differing opinions on what works, what doesn&#8217;t, and why.  Being new to this, I have my opinions, and what I&#8217;ve been told to avoid, but I really haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2008/02/21/classroom-management/</link>
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		<title>Things I&#8217;m learning&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(1) Don&#8217;t plan until 3am and expect to be useful the next day.
(2) I&#8217;m never going to plan the way my supervisor makes me do it.
(3) Yoga is a necessity.
(4) A masseuse would be awesome.
(5) First graders are smarter than most give them credit for.
(6) Breakfast would be great, if I had the time.
(7) School [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2008/02/12/things-im-learning/</link>
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		<title>No more tears?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve mentioned once before that my school system uses Handwriting without Tears to teach handwriting.  My teacher gave me her teacher&#8217;s guide at the beginning of the year, but I haven&#8217;t had much time to look through it.
My school finally got the student workbooks this month, so my teacher started teaching it one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journal.starwidget.net/2007/10/19/no-more-tears/</link>
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