The Man on the White Horse has been spending a lot of time outside my classroom window lately (not in the road like he did here). He pretty much has the sentence fragment part of his job nailed. The kidlets GET that. Actions verbs? Not bad. Nouns? Meh… Adjectives? Dicey. It’s going well though. He’s doing…
The time has come for this caped teacher to renew her National Teaching Certificate. Back in 2002 I earned (got? won? obtained?) a national certification in Early Adolescent/English-Language Arts. I won’t bore you with the details of that whole thing unless you ask me. If you’re interested in the original application process or what it means, I…
Me: J.? J: Yes Ms. M? Me: Are you laying on the floor? J: Yes Ms. M. Me: Okay. Just checking. J: Okay Ms. M.
I don’t like bumper stickers. They are messy-looking, and they tell me more information about the drivers than I want to know. When I drive behind a car with a hot mess of bumper stickers, I can’t help but stare at them, read them, analyse them. This is not only dangerous, but completely ruins the chi of my driving…
This Week’s Caped Crusader of the Week is Mrs. R. Sadly, I can’t tell you much about her as I’ve never gotten to teach with her. She teaches at a nearby middle school, and sometimes I get students that were in her class before they were “asked” to leave her school. They have all liked…
Given to me by a student this morning: Heh.
Some of the blogs I like and follow (Ahem, follow… because Following a blog shows you like it, and keeps the blogger from thinking she is sad and alone in the blog-o-sphere) have a weekly post with music or something interesting like a Music Monday, Saturday Stash, or a Tunes-Day. So… Introducing the Friday Free…
So, I asked what you would do in the case of a set of Pants on Fire. Thank you for the suggestions and ideas. Here is what went down: I put Phone-Borrower in a room away from everyone for awhile (if I say how long it will sound mean). I tried dialing the phone to see…
I am the opposite of cerebral. I am intuitive, imaginative, and impractical. I am loosey-goosey, dreamy, and have a casual relationship with time. BUT. I prefer provable facts over what-ifs or maybes. If I am going to make a statement or declaration, I look it up first. That said, I am fixin’ to make a declaration. Actually two.…
What is the right thing to do? Kidlet #1 is despondent. He finally lets me know that he has let another student “borrow” his cell phone and she has not returned it for nearly a week. He is in big trouble at home, but will only tell his mom that the phone is “lost.” He…
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