The First Official CELEBRATE This Week Link-Up
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I’m glad you are here and hope you will join the CELEBRATE link-up. Here are the guidelines:
Every Saturday share a celebration. It can be anything (or several things). A photo, a page from your writer’s notebook, a favorite lesson, a success story, student writing, a recipe, a new book for your classroom library — just find something to celebrate. It doesn’t have to be big, in fact, unlikely celebrations are some of our favorites. Check out the posts from last week’s practice CELEBRATE This Week link-up. They are filled with inspiration!
Link-up your celebration. You can add a link to your own blog post here in the link-up list. Maybe you don’t want to write a blog post, but you’d still like to join the CELEBRATE link-up. Let’s use #celebratelu (lu stands for link-up) on Twitter. Another option could be sharing your celebration on the {Discover. Play. Build.} Facebook page (although I’m still trying to find my footing here).
Browse through the links. You’ll find inspiration and good ideas and more ways to celebrate your own piece of the world.
Leave some comments. This is how a community forms. Let others know you’ve stopped by and celebrate together.
I can’t wait for the connections that are just waiting for us. I’m hoping that by the end of the school year classrooms will be celebrating together because of the connections formed in the CELEBRATE link-up community.
I hope you’ll grab the official button and join in the Celebration!
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I’m in Pennsylvania for the KSRA conference and drove a little from the airport to the conference. It was a beautiful drive and I saw colors I’ve never seen before in the changing leaves.
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Little steps, big ideas and beauty – can't help but smile.
So fun to have little glimpses into teacher's lives and see what they celebrate. It truly is the little things that bring us JOY.
Ruth, even the thought, the idea, of another book must fill you up with joy!
I love how you celebrated your little friend's attempt at paragraphing. Look for where they're using, but confusing, right? Lots to celebrate!
It will be delicious fun to work with Deb on a new book, too! That's a celebration! Thanks for this, Ruth!
What a fabulous week to celebrate! And I need to have you come live and teach near me. You can point out where the seed for a book lies dormant, since I am blind. 🙂 And you can teach my own boys writing, which would be amazing.
Dialogue is so fun and so hard to teach! It's great to see that your students are experimenting!
Thank you again for starting this focus on celebrations. There are so many things to celebrate in our everyday lives….sometimes we just need to look for it.
Hi, I am new to your blog, but happy I found it. I love celebrations too and already participate in another hop that celebrates 10 Things of Thankful. I love to write and am a former educator too.
Looks like you watched people grow this week. What a lovely week to celebrate. Enjoy the conference and the rest of your weekend.
You are the best at encouraging fellow writers! You can see what is not always obvious to others.
Love the dialogue lesson. I have been working on this with many students recently. Love these first attempts.
I love that you included pics. Seeing the student work really demonstrates the power of celebrating the work in-progress there! I am charmed by the way we can really see you and Deb at work–cutting and sorting. Your thinking is visible. And a book tease? I am all in favor of that collaboration!
Ruth,
I am so glad you are doing this. It's fun to look at life through the lens of a celebration. Interestingly, it makes me realize how much there really is to celebrate every single day.
It sounds like you had plenty to celebrate this week. We drove to North Carolina this weekend across the Blue Ridge Mountains so I was able to see some of those beautiful colors you celebrated. They were SOOO worth celebrating.
Cathy
Thanks for starting this! I love anything that celebrates the good things in life! Can't wait to see other people's celebratory moments!
Happy to join in. I just started this two weeks ago inspired by Colby Sharp. Thanks for creating a community to share the positives.
I so love this idea. “Whether you look for the best or look for the worst, either way you will find what you are looking for.” Thanks for the reminder to look for (and celebrate!) the best!