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A long time ago, someone gave me a present.  It was a christmas ornament that looked like twisted paper.  I was amazed and wondered how it was done.  So she showed me along with 8 other people in a class she offered. I found out the paper twisting was called quilling!!
The first thing that I made was a snowman book mark. it was cute but ugly at the same time.  also I don’t use it because it has depth and it doesn’t fit between pages without being squished.  Now I teach kids at school along with the teacher - maybe a friendship card, birthday card, 3D picture and yes, the christmas ornament for the tree.  u used to be able to buy the tool and paper from Dollarama, but haven’t found any in the past year.  I have a stock  for student use if we do this again.  My quiller and paper can be bought at Michaels for much more.

Collecting Poetry

So, the story goes ...My love of poetry began as a child with my father reading Robert Service poems to me.  I didn’t start collecting poetry until after I had my kids but when they were small they each had an interest and I started collecting poems for them.  My older son collected gophers and my younger son collected mice.  I collected poems for each of them. I have collected poems for friend’s children as well and just for my own personal interest.  I often give poems as gifts.  A favorite April poem is “Spring came hurrying over the hill phoning the news through a daffodil.”

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Thinking ahead to a career in the field of education Carrie and I are so ecstatic to soon enter the hallowed halls of
higher learning.

Professor Awesome constantly challenged us to be mindful of all students needs, as well as parent,community expectations and provincial guidelines. Don't neglect differentiated instruction, be progressive, stay on top of the ever new currica, remember AFL,ePPP's,EAL integration, F&P assessment,FNIM education and be accountable to the SCC the SSP,SCD and the LRC! "I you can handle all this we will do well."

Professor Headnthesand discouraged us asking questions in class, only accept his viewpoint and to not look for further information outside of class.
"If you can handle all this you will do well."

How much weight you put on their expertise and or approaches, in the end, it is you that will determine whether YOU SINK OR SWIM.

Glug.....Glug... or Flap... Flap.....

Thanks for a great day, Darren and Dean Alison L. Robbins Jakes Teacher Librarian College Park/Queen Elizabeth 

Dog Story

My story is a tragic love story - between a girl and her best friend.  Our daughter Shea lost her dog, a 3 ½ year old shar pei named Charlotte (for Charlotte Bronte), who died very suddenly two weeks ago Friday.  We knew she wasn’t doing well this past year - gradually losing weight, other problems - but the vets couldn’t figure out what the issue was and treated her incorrectly for various things.  Then after a long walk, she died of a heart attack.  We now know she had a congenital disease common to the shar pei, which is a “silent killer”.  It was incurable.  She was the sweetest dog and our family was devastated.  To make matters worse, my daughter Shea, is in college in Halifax.  Charlotte was literally her best friend.  We had to tell her long distance - one of the hardest things we’ve ever done.  It was her first real experience with grief.  She was able to work through the grief through her friends at Dalhousie, with us via Skype and the phone, and through doing creative things on the internet, like making a collage of herself with Charlotte on flickr.  Here’s a link to the collage she made of herself and Charlotte, which is followed by comments on flickr that helped her deal with the grief:   We were able to have flowers and cupcakes delivered to her from local Halifax businesses.  And I ordered her a necklace with a silver lock that is inscribed on the front with “I love you” and on the back with a “C” for Charlotte.  This will be waiting for her when she returns from uni in a week to a house very empty of Charlotte.
Post Script:  We are now left with my oldest daughter Meredith’s six-month-old puppy, a puggle (pug/beagle cross) named Rue (for a character in The Hunger Games) - and believe me, we’ve “rued” the day we got her, many a day.  She just about drove our poor Charlotte crazy, who, by the way, was amazingly patient with her.  Now she’s just driving us crazy!  She is still not completely trained at six months - need I say more?  She is constantly into everything, howls at anyone who walks by, chews furniture, shoes, homework!  After much reading on the internet, we have hope that what is a stubborn and difficult puggle puppy will turn into a great dog someday - if not, hopefully Meredith will move out with Rue within the next year or two!

Paula
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