Project Reflections
| Date | Place | Reflections |
| 1/18/06 | Tumwater Hill Elementary courtyard | one rain free moment started by a frogs bellow from under a shrub |
| 1/19/06 | THE 2nd grade | Christina color blue wax sky and scribble stream leaf green hummus brown |
| 1/20/06 | at home | wispy mist rising touching the pale pink sunrise strong sun in soft clouds |
| 1/21/06 | at Evergreen | marsh ceders soaking in quiet black pools beside buttons in the peat
I stood in the mud listening to the branches drip into the pool |
| 1/23/06 | yard work at home | played by the warm sun plants stretch from their winter slumber stirring in their roots |
| 1/24/06 | second grade recess | he basks in the sun recess running all around him solitary boy |
| 1/25/06 | home | backlit black blue sky sliver of light from the moon clear morning delight |
| 1/26/06 | THE playground | a dognose cold breeze blows through soaked coat and wet socks rain falling plenty |
| 1/27/06 | the Teddy Bear Parade THE first grade | seventy five bears teddy bears plus kids marching ONE hates teddy bears |
| 1/28/06 | starting to feel a challenge : home and Longhouse | dark morning thick clouds sun can't get through no reason to wake up today drained clouds give way to glaring sunlight bent split bounced colors light bring joy |
| 1/30/06 | THE playground | say a little prayer for the pink and white smashed newt cruelly gooey |
| 1/31/06 | home | waves of wind and rain rush up hill and over my yard singing winters song |
| 2/1 | playground | I didn't do it angry recess lady yells at me not the kids
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| 2/2 | home | out in the back yard robins fly out in a spray freaking out the dog |
| 2/3 | bus stop ontop of Tumwater hill | misty sprinkles drop roadside creek bends wet grass blades frog calls from hillside |
| 2/4 | longhouse | hailstones and raindrops falling before my footsteps bounce lightly and melt |
| 2/6 | interstate five | asphalt stretched to sky blackblind except red tail lights giant truck drags car |
| 2/7 | schoolyard | all the kids against the fence looking out to see two deer chewing twigs snacktime is talk time me so! shouts a boy outloud his peers know "me too!" |
| 2/8 | schoolyard (in readwell we train children to stretch and shrink words so they can hear all their sounds - and we use slinkies). | stretch and shrink the worm the worm travels thin and fat on the dry pavement |
| 2/9 | playground | air pierced by hawks call alone on the playground now all the kids have left |
| 2/10 | all day everywhere (I challenged the first graders to jump on their shadows with both feet) | dead friends sunny days shadows play on memories of februaries |
| 2/11 | view of mt Rainier | thick white skirt of snow covers jagged rocky knees smooth hips glacial thighs |
| 2/13 | recess - first grader without friends | jump on wet shadows tears dry hurt heart forgotten play! while the light is bright |
| 2/14 | morning at home | thick and low clouds hang haeavy and damp carpeting dulling the sunscape |
| 2/15 | 100th day of school | one hundred things stuck to poster board celebrate the hundredth day of school |
| 2/16 | spreading compost with Leonard | look little cousin free living soft wiggly worms fattened for fishing |
| 2/17 | Haiku about the ceder tree | sky punched by ceder ceder tickled by squirrel squirrel teases dog |
| 2/18 | first walk around capitol lake in 2006 | soft sounds swimming ducks crisp ice fringed steel lake water white sun fades ducks dive |
| 2/22 | fire alarm | abrupt fire alarm wide eyes fingers stuck in ears spritz of mist calm fears |
| 2/23 | while pacing the map for garden project | lazy cat forgot dark mounds of deep dirt in piles who invited mole? |
| 2/24 | playground | tree shivers with each hollow pat pat bug seeking wood pecker eating |
| 2/27 | tantrum over rubber band in first grade | stand outside and scream most frustrating thing about being six: the dults |
| 2/28 | watching 1st grader draw a city | laughing maniac chattering sweet dimpled child draws town in peril |
| 3/1 | driving home from work | froze like a bunny silent on the horizon mountain suprized me |
| 3/2 | storm in the yard | wayward white caps break over the edge of the sea bad day at bird bath |
| 3/3 | schoolyard | bumble bee clinging to soft purple heather bouncing in the mid day warmth |
| 3/4 | tumwater municiple trees | winter wanes while warm daylight touches pink tree tips encouraged blossoms |
| 3/5 | home in the yard | belligerent blue just a stellar's jay just in yet lords over yard |
| 3/6 | home in the yard | yellow is the day! forsythia in the rainstorm almost unnoticed |
| 3/7 | playground | rain stopped sun came out kids went right for the puddles too cheerful to care |
| 3/8 | playground | hey there little bird rudy belly tussled down brave robin on playground |
| 3/9 | all day | fat puffy snow flakes float before morning window stick to soggy slush |
| 3/10 | 4th grade * | the children were lost in wonder as out the window snowflakes fell |
| 3/11 | home * | winters last snow storm silence woke me white and calm |
| 3/13 | bus stop | tiny daffodil standing with me at bus stop patiently waiting |
| 3/14 | the whole day | antonymous sky sunny blue east dark black west spring rain scented day |
