Each classroom is supposed to create a coat of arms for the book fair, and the kids decide what to put on the shield. My class decided on ( Read more... )

Your Hair Should Be Red
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Glorious sunset tonight - er, this afternoon. I really miss sharing sunsets...

A couple neat compliments came my way today. The math coach asked if our grade level teachers would like her to come to the classroom to either observe our teaching or to for her to demonstrate the new technique for teaching she's trying to get us to use. I'd been experimenting with it, but I didn't feel I had much success. I asked her to do a ( Read more... )

For those few of you interested, mainly my family, I should be graduating at ULV on the Saturday or Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in May 2006. This plays havoc with usual Memorial Day gig, but as the gig is in Pomona and the graduation in La Verne, maybe I can swing a way to do both ( Read more... )

The kids are writing a story about their favorite Halloween memory - which shouldn't be all that difficult as they are only about 8 and at most remember maybe 4 or 5 Halloweens. After hearing several of their stories, I remembered that I was supposed to write an example for them and I'd forgotten. They need to have an idea of what they are going ( Read more... )

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Does anyone reading this know how to put an audiocassette into the computer so as to be able to burn the contents of the tape onto a CD? I have several tapes in my classroom that are pretty much useless because they are on tape and it's too hard to find the track you need while the classroom erupts into loud, disorganized confusion. I asked the ( Read more... )

Well, guys, it's going to be hard. Partly because I now know what I should have been doing the last 2 years and I know I'm not doing it, not all of it, anyway. Partly because the kids this year are *the* most talkative bunch, not a good sign this early in the year. 5 girls, 15 boys. 15 very talky boys and a couple talky girls. I've changed some ( Read more... )

Today was the long postponed Jury Duty. I was called to go in, no surprise since I'd asked them to set it up for today. I sat and read books and tried Sudoku in the Jury Assembly Room most of the day, then just when I thought I'd leave without having to serve on a jury, I got called to go to a courtroom ( Read more... )