My noodle-heads love to fold paper. Give them a reason to fold it (airplanes, those diamond-shaped things they call footballs, turning dollar bills into rings)–they’ll sit for hours and fold, fold, fold. They’ll scavenge for paper, steal it even, to keep folding paper long after they’ve been told not to. Why do they have to…
A: Ms. M, may I pop the zit on my neck? Me: Ummmm… Yes. But please don’t show me.
Although a short week (for me), this week held very many things to think about, deal with, look up, figure out, wonder about, come to terms with, understand, or fix. Here is a list of things off of the top of my head. Each of these things is directly related to one or more of…
I have an Incessant Leaner in my classroom. He leans back in his chair, the chairs get bendy and squeaky AND he has fallen on his little poodle head multiple times. Today, he and I came up with a solution: DUCT TAPE!!! *Note–HE suggested the duct tape. It’s not a vicious punishment– in fact another…
Well friends, it’s that time again. Get ready, cover your mouths, and zip your lips. It’s… link here Did you know? I did, but then I forgot. Now I’m wracking my brain to think if I did any name-calling this week. I’m quite certain I didn’t call any of the poodle-heads names. Except for Poodle-head,…
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…
Wear The Cape 