Posted by: eiela on: 29 August 2008
I love Kindergartners sometimes.
ME: What’s your name?
K student: “Freddie the Rainbow.”
Turn to my assistant to see if she heard the same thing I did. She did. (She has the best faces!)
ME: Could you tell me that again?
Second try reveals that his last name does rhyme with Rainbow, but is not, in fact, rainbow!
Posted by: eiela on: 25 August 2008
I’ve been tagged for an interesting original meme by Where’s the Sun? (More numbers! ack! I just finished counting about a bajillion pennies for our Book Fair One for Books change drive!) Really, though, this is the first time Ive ever been tagged for a meme, so I’m excited.
Back To School Meme
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Posted by: eiela on: 24 August 2008
Found this via the teachers.net chatboard. Wouldn’t this be a cool tool to talk about the presidential candidates with students? The presentation style really lends itself to a discussion of whether or not the president actually has the power to do what the candidates are promising to do. Which is one of my huge [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 19 August 2008
I read The Boy Who Cried Wolf by B.G. Hennessy to one of my classes today, since they’re studying fairy tales and fables in reading this week. Before reading we talked about how a fable is a story that’s meant to teach a lesson, and I asked them to be thinking about what lesson this [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 4 August 2008
Here’s the school schedule I’d implement. I’ve often thought that BOTH the students and teachers would be so much more relaxed and ready to learn/teach in the afternoon, if the kids could get outside for at least half and hour and run around like nuts in the middle of the day. Better yet if everyone [...]
