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…
And THEN we played with color!!!! What fun was that? First, color wheels. Spiced up the typical color wheel lessons by using magazine cut-out mosaics to create the colors (Thanks to the awesome classroom staff person with awesome ideas and awesome artistic talent. Did I mention awesome?). Then a review of ROY G. BIV, and…
This year I am teaching art. For those of you that know me, I am not, technically, artistic. Certainly, I am what you might call creative. I am… crafty (homograph intended). What I am not is an artist. I know small bits of information, I know what I think is pretty, and I know how…
My school is in the middle of a pretty dicey part of town–next to the street names you hear most often on the police news. While the kids were getting on the bus after school, a man on a horse came by. That was odd, to say the least. But, joy-upon-joys,the students all said excitedly–“It’s…
Truly, I don’t know when I started doing this, if I stole it, or if it helps as much as I think it does, but The Man on the White Horse Series has been an integral part of my grammar curriculum for many years. The Man on the White Horse arrives to give various examples…
Wear The Cape 