Monday Blahs
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25820)
Pikeville, North Carolina
October 15, 2018 5:49am CST
It's cool, cloudy, humid and blah this morning here in eastern NC. This is an improvement on how I felt when I woke up yesterday.
At school this week, our first quarter ends on Wednesday. Most of my kids have good to excellent grades for the quarter.
Today will be spent working on writing for the most part. I brought home the classes first drafts of their research papers and only made it through about 5 of them yesterday. The handwriting was so atrocious that I spent as much time deciphering as I did actually reading for content. We will definitely be spending more time on penmanship.
I hope everyone has a good Monday. Is that an oxymoron? How is your day shaping up so far?
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@arunima25 (84953)
• Bangalore, India
15 Oct 18
We are in festive mood and fun. I enjoyed dancing with friends and family in Dandiya night and now my feet hurts.
Children are no more interested in writing with pen in this typing era. I had so many atrocious handwriting Children coming to me in my handwriting improvement class.
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@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
16 Oct 18
@arunima25 I wholeheartedly agree. There are many benefits to learning to write other than people being able to read what you've written.
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@arunima25 (84953)
• Bangalore, India
16 Oct 18
@DWDavis Typing is okay. But as an educator I feel that writing with hand is an important developmental milestone. It definitely works on lots of other skills and it a true developmental need of children from 7 to 14.
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@Morleyhunt (21567)
• Canada
15 Oct 18
It will be a busy Monday. I really should put away the iPad and get myself into gear.
The sun is shining....oh what a joy! We've had more than two weeks of gray skies and rain...now 2 days of sunshine!!
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@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
16 Oct 18
@Morleyhunt Opps! My bad. I shouldn't have said anything.
@m_audrey6788 (58487)
• Germany
15 Oct 18
That`s great. You`re lucky to have smart kids. Nothing much today here only sunny and a little bit cold feeling type of weather.
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@DWDavis (25820)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
15 Oct 18
My students are very smart and I work hard to keep them engaged and motivated. That's one reason I emphasized the importance of good handwriting to them today. Your handwriting, or at least the attention and care you show when handwriting, says a lot about you.
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@m_audrey6788 (58487)
• Germany
16 Oct 18
@DWDavis Glad to know. Thank you for sharing it. Have a great day and Happy mylotting
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@snowy22315 (168368)
• United States
15 Oct 18
So far so good I guess, haven't been up that long though.
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@LovingMyBabies (85130)
• Valdosta, Georgia
15 Oct 18
Good morning. Things are good here so far. =) I hope you have a great day!
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@LovingMyBabies (85130)
• Valdosta, Georgia
15 Oct 18
@DWDavis Nope not at all. Thank God!
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@wolfgirl569 (93502)
• Marion, Ohio
15 Oct 18
For people working that is an oxymoron. Hope you have a good day anyways
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@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
15 Oct 18
So far so good, about to go into work, second shift.
I will say I do have nice hand writing, both print and cursive.
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@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Oct 18
Penmanship is becoming lost in this tech era.
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@teamfreak16 (43451)
• Denver, Colorado
22 Oct 18
Ah, I am a week behind. But since tomorrow is Monday, I just made sure to listen to some Happy Mondays in hopes that it will help make it a good day!
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