Crazy Week!

I hope that each of you have had a good week and have benefitted from the Reading Response assignment this week. I'm anxious to read these to see the connections you make and the new learning that occurred.

This week has been crazy for me as including three straight nights in different cities in different hotels.  I attended a very interesting conference in Boston on student learning objectives and gained excellent resources to use in my work with the new Professional Growth & Effectiveness System Kentucky is developing.  It will replace the current district by district evaluation system of teachers.  

My flight out of Boston was delayed and thus re-routed from D.C. to Charlotte.  There I missed my flight and ended up having to spend the night.  The following day I drove to Bowling Green where I had the opportunity to share the new PGES system with a group of district leaders from across the state. Great meeting.  I love to hear from those currently working in the schools and districts.

Needless to say by evening and arriving home I was exhausted.  But, I had/have the opportunity to have my 2 and 3 year old great-grand daughters spend the night and part of the weekend.  You'll get to benefit from their "natural language" exchanges over the course of the semester!

Eventful weeks remind me of the many opportunities I've been given and thus the blessings I have.  I'm excited for Monday night and the opportunity to do the following:

1. Review the MLU and give you the opportunity to demonstrate what you remember.
2. Review the theories of language acquisition
3. Connect our learning on syntax, semantics and pragmatics to the early school years and literacy (chapter 6)

I look forward to seeing each of you on Monday!  An optional activity if you have time and access to a library where you can locate it is to bring a copy of a favorite children's book.  I'll have plenty for us to use in our work.