Callie Feyen

What’s that? You kinda sorta like the Summer Reading Journals, but you wish there was something for the smaller readers? No problem. You still get an All-About-Me page. Chocklute milk and recesses.  All the recesses. You get to make a Superhero cape. Harper’s has to do with reading. She learned to, and fell in love with reading this year, thanks… View Post

What is it that Meg Ryan says in You’ve Got Mail about what happens to you when you’ve been marked by a book? Something about being changed forever. I can’t remember exactly. What about a little scrapbook for you to capture that change? You have a page to make a collage and logo about yourself (mine is a coffee cup;… View Post

My 8th grade classroom smells like mint gum, and body odor. The gum is not allowed. I am to tell the kids to get rid of it, and then report it into a shared record system that’s stored on the computer. After a certain amount of gum busts, I think the student gets a detention or something along those lines…. View Post

I read this week from an editor that a writer’s website needs 50,000 true followers in order to get a book deal. It made me cry a little bit. This was written by one of my students last week during finals.  He wrote it at the top of the essay portion of my exam.  My essay question was this: “It… View Post

The plan was to begin reading Harry Potter out loud to the girls when Hadley turned eight, because for years I thought eight was the age HP was when the story began.  Turns out, he’s eleven. Eleven years of sitting in that damn cupboard beneath the stairs. I hadn’t realized until we’d started it, and I’ll have you know it… View Post