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Another Snow Day

My phone rang at 5.15am this morning, letting me know that there was no school today. Given the state of the roads yesterday, I was a bit surprised... but who am I to complain? Christmas break starts a day early! Of course, I still have to go to school sometime today since I didn't bother to shut everything down for the holiday or gather up the papers to be graded, etc. But that will have to wait until the coffee is done and I'm feeling a bit more motivated.

In the meantime, do you have a classroom website? What do you put on it? Do your students use it? Can I look at it? I've done more than a couple classroom website, but none has really worked out for me... partially because I get too busy to add to it and partially because the students do not access it. I'd really like to see an active one in action.

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traveler hudd said…
hooray for snow days :) happy break!
10:18 PM
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