Cell Phones in the Classroom? Destructo!!!! NOT!
Please consider the opinion presented in the article entitled Supporting Cell Phone Use in the Classroom. And then participate in the discussion. Post a reply as you see fit...
Staff Team Building
This was the coolest thing we did all day. We were given the supplies – well, most of them – to build what you see here. Different groups were...
Need Supplies? Check it!
Here’s a link to the Supplies List – School Year 2010-2011....
Effective Strategies to Accelerate Student Learning
This workshop has been awesome. We are setting up to “jumpstart”, as one of my group members put it, a leap from low level thought skills to high level...
Summer Lovin’, Happy at Last . . .
Watch Grease with your parents. Here’s a link to the Supplies List – School Year 2010-2011....
Flowers for Algernon
Here’s a link to the Supplies List – School Year 2010-2011. Today we started work in Flowers for Algernon found in the LOL book from pages 220-246. Before we...
SUMMER Responsibilities & COMING School Year SUPPLIES
These were the expectations for the 2011-2012 School Year. SUMMER READING REQUIREMENTS Rising 5th to 6th Graders Read the following titles OVER the summer. Bring a book report for...
Lies . . . Lies and Balderdash
I’m vegan, we all know that. I think you should live the life you think is the most altruistic to the best of your ability. If you want to...
Reading Strategies Ongoing Assignment
Today, we read our personal novels for the first 15-30 minutes of class. I asked students to pay close attention to all of the story elements such as major...
Kickball for Healthy Activity Anyone?
Our series against Tabor A continued today with our team’s loss. Our record is 1-1-0 now against them. Tomorrow for the first time we look forward to facing Tabor...
test post from my phone
Let me know if you see this. By the way…to all my current students – sorry I haven’t been in. The family has been sick. I’m the primary caretaker...
This week in Language Arts
This week we focused on POETRY. We took as our subject poem one concerned with heroism and self-sacrifice by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade (available...
Pay for Performance
So, who should get pay for performance? The teachers? The students? The administrators? Some other group? And Why? Who is actually the deserving group? You better have some logical...
This week in Language Arts
Here’s the plan for the week. We will be working for the next few days on the following assignments. M – We will review the proper format for...
Winter Formative Assessment REFLECTIONS Week
Throughout this week we will be going through our annual Winter Formative Assessment (WFA) Reflections. This is a tedious yet extremely rewarding undertaking. I expect great things to come from...