December 2009
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In Fifteen Years
Boy meets girl and they share an intense connection. Something happens and they get separated. Boy moves on with his life but thinks of her often. Girl moves on too and is sad that things didn’t work out. Both boy and girl feel the intense connection they shared way back when, no matter how much […]
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Christmas Concert – Relatively Painless
School Christmas concerts can be an agonizing affair. I know from experience. Fortunately, so does our principal. She is new to the school but she had some great ideas about how to make tonight’s performances go smoothly. The first change was that we didn’t use the stage. It has terrible acoustics anyway. What we did […]
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Teaching Tip Tuesdays – Sometime You Just Need a Break
I hope you have been enjoying my Teaching Tip Tuesdays series of posts. Today’s tip – Sometimes You Just Need a Break. Teachers work really hard. We have so much work to do on a daily basis. That’s why it is important to try and do as much work as we can at school so […]
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Give Me The Tools to Do My Job
Until you have done it, you will never know how difficult a job it is to get in front of two-dozen kids each and every day and try to teach them. There are so many obstacles that need to be overcome on a daily basis. Some students make no qualms about the fact that they […]
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Recommended Reads – Grease Monkey
I just love the public library. I can’t tell you how many books I have discovered there, quite by accident, that have made it onto my all-time favourites list. This book is just the latest addition. I’m only half way through it but it has totally pulled me into this fictional world. I stayed up […]
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Mixed With Love – Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday Baby, I made this 3-sided mixtape just for you.* I mixed it with love. I hope you enjoy it. I also left another birthday surprise for you on my other blog. So start downloading these files and then head on over to Thoughtful Cacophony. *To my readers, I know, it’s weird to give […]
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Teaching Tip Tuesdays – USB Drives
Here’s a great tip for helping your students in the computer lab. Go to the surplus store and pick up some cheap USB thumb drives. The above drives only cost me $4.00 a piece. You can’t really beat that. Label the thumb drives and keep them in your classroom. I can’t tell you how many […]
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Scenes From A Classroom: Episode 1
Mr. March tries to use skateboarding to help his class understand some of the concepts they have been studying in science and math. But today is no ordinary day. Find out what happens in … Scenes From a Classroom Episode 1 While this story is based on fact, it is fiction. Any resemblance to students […]
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Parents – Let’s Talk
Today something amazing happened. I had a parent come to my classroom and ask how her daughter was doing in class. We talked quite frankly about the challenges she has faced, the success that she has had this year, and the things that she can improve on. We didn’t dwell on the report card, comments, […]