But I am done with apple-picking now.
Robert Frost writes this line in his poem, “After Apple-Picking.” The speaker in the poem narrates their weariness after a long day of apple-picking, drifting in that in-between state of being not fully awake or asleep. Even the rhyme scheme…
Why do the white beeches in fall sigh?
Great question…this sounds like a query that can only be answered in the form of art! Week two of Autumn Artfest finds us ready to paint, draw, sew, compose, bead—in other words, ready to create. This week’s prompt is inspired…
Happy birthday, James Harriot!
James Alfred Wight (who used “James Harriot” as a pen name) lived a life worth remembering. You might know James Harriot as the author of All Creatures Great and Small, which happens to be one of my all time favorite…
Best Laid Plans
When it comes to back-to-school, sometimes even the best laid plans turn chaotic like an enormous pile of fallen apples! And sometimes we hit back-to-school and realize our planning has, well FALLen short. Bad pun, but fitting. When it comes…
The Bird Who Sings at Night
While she formally published fewer than a dozen poems, Emily Dickinson wrote eighteen hundred over the course of her lifetime. The main reason more of her work went unpublished is largely because she chose not to. Instead, she left her…
Autumn is in the Air—and so is Autumn Artfest!
September 22nd is a big day. It marks the shift from lounging in a beach chair to sitting up straight at a desk, from catching whiffs of sunscreen to enjoying pumpkin spice. In other words, September 22nd is the first day…
Today is the deadline for Pages registration!
It’s the first day of September! And you know what that means…today is the deadline for Session 1 Pages registration! What exactly is the purpose of Pages? Pages live online classes foster competence, creativity, and confidence in students as they…
Summer Bingo closes August 31st….so cross off your last boxes!
Quick! Before summer thumps shut like a dusty book, one more deadline approaches: the end of Summer Bingo! Summer Bingo submissions close August 31st (Click HERE to submit). Finish off the season strong by journaling about your day, lending a…
We love (and support) our teachers.
The first day of school is right around the corner. Your curriculum is selected, your books assembled, your students in their seats (or near them, at least)—but, as you know, there’s so much more to teaching than having the right…
Let’s Edit Together.
Many teachers and parents hit a wall editing student work—it can seem so subjective! The last thing any of us want is to discourage our budding writers. But editing doesn’t have to loom large like a specter of educational despair. YOU…