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Manic Monday? How about Fun Day?

Posted in Improv, Recess, tagged , , , , , , on November 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »

MusicMan was absent today, and he had his sub do a karaoke duel. (Which would have been his lesson anyway, I’m sure.) It looked like SO much fun, so when I came back into the room, I told a kid I wanted to sing. He told the sub, and she said, Sure! It was all [...]

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Comic Relief

Posted in Improv, Recess, tagged , , , , , , , on October 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Some much-appreciated comedy for the end of the week.

Our reading story today described a Blizzard in NYC in 1888, and some people cross the river and get stuck on chunks of ice. As one floated away, a guy said, “I’ll cable from Europe!” I asked if they knew what that meant. They just [...]

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so ready for a long weekend

Posted in Improv, Reflective Teaching, Time Out!, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 3, 2009 | 6 Comments »

These first three days just FLEW by. A kid even commented on how fast the day was going, and he still couldn’t believe he is in the fifth grade. (This is the same boy who complimented my idea of hanging the backpacks on the hangers so they wouldn’t get stepped on because something of his [...]

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Student Teaching Journal: Day 32

Posted in History, Improv, Reflective Teaching, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Wednesday, September 22, 1999
This morning started with CL, DL’s little sister in 1st grade, giving me a big hug while we were lining up and saying, “I wish I was in your class!” She is so adorable! That totally made my day.

The only thing better than a kid saying they want to be in your [...]

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Student Teaching Journal: Day 17

Posted in History, Improv, Reflective Teaching, tagged , , , , , , on July 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Tuesday, August 31, 1999
In the middle of the Nerves worksheet, I thought of a way to demonstrate how nerves work – “Whisper Down the Lane”!
I am so brilliant. 
I told Mrs. J, who said they had played it once as “Telephone”, and she thought it was a good idea.  So after they were done coloring, I [...]

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Student Teaching Journal: Day 10

Posted in History, Improv, Library, Philosophy 101, Reflective Teaching, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Warning, this is a long one!
Day 10:  Friday, August 20, 1999
We did the first book of the Leo Lionni author study today.  It was amazing.
This was a project my professor showed us in my Reading Practicum.  It had an art project to go with each story.  I bugged her so much for the [...]

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Singing Screamo ?

Posted in Improv, tagged , on February 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »

My friend SunSpray teaches in the Bahamas, and we are going to have our students write penpal letters to each other.  We both had our classes write down some basic info so we can match up our kids.  I had a few who said one of their hobbies is “singing screamo”.  One kid described it [...]

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