Ms. Nancy's Library & Technology Blog

(Photo by Steve Rawley) What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back? A stick. Good one, yes? I’ll be at a new school next year and I am super excited about that! But I will miss my former students. Thank you all for a great year. I know that none of you are […]

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Did you already catch that one? All I can say is: Cool! The students and I watched this one this week. We (heart) pandas. Then we checked out some of my favorite nature/animal websites and wrote about animals. We use Google docs at our school, and I must say, it’s handy for those times when […]

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(Photo by Steve Rawley)

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“For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.” — Jello Biafra, musician (b. 1958)

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“When you hit a wall, just kick it in.” — Patti Smith

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Our retired custodian at Peninsula K-8, Mr. Frank Morgan, passed away over the weekend. We will miss him greatly, his former students, co-workers, neighbors and I. He loved the library and his dog Peabody did, too. He used to come in and chase the mice away for me. Frank was a gentleman and a cool […]

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“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” — Nick Hornby, writer

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A sweet song by one of the sweetest girls in Portland.

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Have a great weekend! — Ms. Nancy

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