February 2009 - Posts
First a shout out to this week's Carnival of Education, being hosted at Rayray's Writing . Lots of good stuff in the Carnival, as usual. Also, I am a bit confused about what is going on tomorrow at school. Here's what I DO know: There is an evening Black
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Ed U Cater wrote a post on his blog -- The Head of the Class -- this weekend, and I thought I'd piggyback on it. His post was about how kids just don't seem to listen nowadays. The examples he cited actually came from MY kids last year (shudder!), and
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I got an email recently from Frank, who writes Intellteacher's Blog , about a project he is working on with Dr. Win Wenger. A quick Google search on the good doctor brings up pages about Project Renaissance, Brain Boosters, and Creative Thinking. The
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I have an update on yesterday's post. My blue marker (dry erase, Mr. Fischer, not a Sharpie :) ) has been reclaimed. When my afternoon class came in and before we graded our first activity, I stood in front of everyone and said that I wanted my markers
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After a pretty good day with the kids (only TWO instances of banging my head against the wall), I come back to my room to get beaten down with the discovery that one of my markers is missing. While it might seem kind of petty to be missing something as
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So I was having this conversation with a fellow teacher, Ed U Cater, on Friday after work. He is a fourth grade teacher, and so I frequently bequeath him with my former students. We were discussing a few of those former students, with him asking if they
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Yesterday, when I was instrumental in what was perhaps one of the lamest physical demonstrations of all time. A guy had come to our school to talk with the second and third graders about electricity. He had several props to ooooh and aaaah the kids, including
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Is it just me, or does it bug anyone else when somebody says "Valentime's Day?" Let me put the emphasis on that -- Valen TIMES Day... Just curious. On another note entirely, I wanted to post a short review about a fellow blogger's book which she sent
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I have a major announcement to make! Well, at least it is a major announcement for ME. I recently took the plunge and bought the domain name learnmegood.com. It was unfortunately already owned by someone, so I had to pay more than I would have otherwise,
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It's that time, once again, for the kids to do their TELPAS writing samples. I think I blogged about the TELPAS last year, calling it the stupidest, most subjective test ever. Thankfully, I passed it after the 3rd time last year and I don't have to take
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Just a quick update here for 2 great links. First, this week's Carnival of Education is up and running at Steve Spangler's Science Blog . My post about the 3 year blogiversary is up as well as many others. Second, this week's Mr. Teacher column on education.com
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We've been doing division in class lately. Perhaps other school districts start teaching division before third grade, for almost all of our kids, they are learning and practicing division for the first time. It makes me very happy when one of my kids
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