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Gray fox, gray fox what do you see? I see Chris and Tarah looking at me. (at red rock state park)

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cool desert morning + hiking = love (at Red Rock State Park)

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cool kids

Me: Who can give me an example of a rhyme?

Student 1: cat-bat

Student 2: slip-flip

Student 3: monkey-funky

-pause-

Student 3: brass monkey, that funky monkey

I'm always impressed/surprised by the music that my students listen to with their parents.

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where the green grass grows

I know that I have missed trees and water since moving to the desert, but I never thought about my students’ relationship to these things until going on a field trip today. Upon driving through a community in Albuquerque with green manicured lawns and brightly painting houses my students began oohing and aahing like you would with fireworks. I guess this is what you do when your home territory is primarily brown.

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conversations with kids

Student: Teacher, where are we?

Teacher: We're almost back to Gallup.

Student: Yay! We're back in Mew Mexico.

Teacher: We never left New Mexico. We just went to Albuquerque.

Student: Oh. Yay! We're in New Mexico!

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