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Afternoon’s Will Never Be The Same
When I first started teaching, I had a long commute into the city. For a while, I enjoyed the drive and the time alone in the car. I blasted my music and sang along to it. It was nice. But after a while, my music wasn’t enough to keep me entertained on those three hours…
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My Trail Run Through the Swamp
It’s time for another visual tour of my trail run. This time, I hit the Lafarge 2000 Trail that runs alongside Beverly Swamp between the 8th concession and Highway 97 in Flamborough, Ontario, Canada. I started on the road a few kilometres away from the start of the trail. This hill was tougher to run…
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Know Your History Episode 1 – Hip Hop is a Culture
This is the transcript of my new segment for DOPEfm radio. It aired last weekend and is available for you to download as a free podcast. I hope that you enjoy this segment. I plan on producing a new episode monthly and would really like to get your feedback on it. Know Your History –…
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Where Are The Desks?
This is a picture of my classroom before the students arrived in the morning for the first day of school. I set up mats for each student to sit down on the floor. In front of those mats, I placed a hula-hoop with a name tag, a pencil case, and the first assignment. I instructed…
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Cale Sampson Concert
I went to this show on Friday and had the opportunity to sit down with Cale Sampson for an in-depth interview. The interview will air next weekend on DOPEfm. Please stay tuned to my blog to download the podcast for free and read the transcript of that interview here next week. In the meantime, here…
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We All Need Some Closure
Have you ever had a relationship that ended badly and just wished that you could have one more day to set things straight? Do you have things that you would like to say but probably won’t ever get the chance to? I bet it’s safe to say that we’ve all been in that position at…
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Went Downtown in the Rain 9:30 on a Tuesday night*
I did something last night that I haven’t done in quite some time. I raced to an actual record store after work to pick up an album. New albums always come out on Tuesdays and it used to be my practice to go downtown every week and check out the new release shelf. In fact,…
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Teaching Tip Tuesday – Math Drills
I think it is important for children to learn the basic number facts. In this day and age, we can get too caught up in letting technology solve all of our problems for us. It is too easy to reach for a calculator or use the one built into our computers to solve basic problems.…
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My Top 5 T.V. Shows (Reshuffled)
Here is my long-standing Top 5 TV shows of all-time list. Click here for the updated list featuring 20 amazing shows. 1. Everwood 2. My So-Called Life 3. Star Trek 4. M.A.S.H. 5. Jericho Everwood has reclaimed the number one spot. It had to. If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time,…
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Teaching Tip Tuesday – Map Adventures
I found this excellent resource a few years ago that I have used countless times in the classroom. It is called Nikki’s Map Adventures. It is a great resource to use in the first few weeks of school. There are seven lesson plans that are easy to follow and really engage students. The unit is…