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July 2008 - Posts
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I am very excited. Every year it is like starting a new job. Think about it! How many jobs out there do you get a new start every single year? Education is the place to be. New students, new teachers, new materials, new ideas and everything is beginning Read More...
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YOU SHOULD SEE ALL THE NEWBIES!!! The two new elementary schools and the one new middle school building are not ready for occupation. This is our new teacher inservice week and they can't get into their classrooms. This is what happened to us last year. Read More...
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About every 5 or 6 years we get a brand spanking new teacher who knows it all. They don't need help from anyone because they already know what to do and how to do it. I imagine that just about every veteran teacher has come across one of these. They won't Read More...
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There is nothing more exciting than a new school year. I am so excited about school starting in two weeks. I have been in my classroom all morning moving things and getting readly to unpack all my junk. The cabinets they promised turned out to be only Read More...
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It isn't that I don't believe in home schooling. I know quite a few people who home schooled very successfully. They did what they were supposed to do. Including interacting with other home school families. My niece is one of those children. However, Read More...
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I am a teacher. Have you ever gone to the store and caught some kid doing something wrong and corrected him? I have. I am a teacher. Have you ever wanted to correct someone's grammar when they are talking and say something incorrectly? I have. I am a Read More...
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Apparantly in Northern Arizona, no one has been. Accroding to this article, many of the children of the Polygamy sect of the Mormon Church, the FLDS, the children are going without education. http://www.sltrib.com/education/ci_9995768 It makes me wonder, Read More...
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If course I will be back on Monday, but that is because they were supposed to add cabinets to our rooms and I will have to unpack a lot of junk. Meanwhile I am busy making word cards and letter cards and sound cards... Cards! Cards! Cards! I could just Read More...
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Think back...do you remember how you were taught to wash your hands? I do. Singing ABCDEFG... Yep, that his how I was taught. You sing the ABC song and when you are done, you can rinse your hands. It is about two minutes. Do we really give kids two minutes Read More...
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I guess we need to take over the parents job of teaching students the importance of washing their hands with SOAP and water. Cryptosporidium, a parasite, has been making the rounds of pools and water parks here in Phoenix. At least 27 people became sick Read More...
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I have learned through the years that I work better before and after school. You are right when you say that many teachers use their planning time to do errands. But, that is also part of planning time. Sometimes it is the only time you can run these Read More...
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That's right, I made a one-year time capsul for my class for this year. I am going to take pictures of them the first day of school and have them fill out some questions on their likes and dislikes and we will put it away for the last week of school. Read More...
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It is a very big deal at our district. Everyone thinks they are cheated in planning time. I listen to the high school and middle school teachers say they need a planning period for every subject they teach. Really? When I taught 7th and 8th grades, I Read More...
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Several people commented about PE. Yes, I forgot to add that in. Last year we had specials at the same time every day. We had PR twice a week, Library, Music and Computers for 40 minutes each. This year, however, they have downsized the Computer Tech Read More...
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This is a biggie at our school. The district does not approve of elementary recess after 2nd grade. If you do, you have to take the kids out yourself and do your own duty. They do get a 45 minute lunch time. 20 minutes for eating and the rest for playing. Read More...
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One thing I forgot to add to the list is probably one of the best ones I have. I keep a memory book with class pictures of every class. I also keep some of the best lessons I have taught and a (very emptish) journal of memories. I actually post the class Read More...
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I just want you to know that I am sitting here at my computer 3 weeks before I go back to work and looking through magazines like "Really Good Stuff", "Carson-Dellosa" and "Teacher Created Resources" but I am not ordering things. I am taking their ideas Read More...
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Florida Reads has activities for all the grades. You don't have to invent them you just take your reading vocabulary and concepts and put your own stuff into the activities. I even like leaving their vocabulary in and just adding mine because in just Read More...
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Get ready, Get set, WAIT! I went to school to meet the new ELL director. They cannot give me the new curriculum because I have to be, get this, INSERVICED before I can have the teacher editions. They will not do that until the week before school starts. Read More...
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I have been through every kind of inservice imaginable. I am done raising my own children. Many of the inservices are on things that should be taught at home. I say...Let's inservice the parents! Character, Manners, Bullying, Responsibility, Sex education,...all Read More...
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My sister and her husband have had to put his parents in a assisted living facility. They cannot take care of themselves anymore. Actually, Tom can but Carol can't and he resented having to take care of her. After all, she was the wife and she was supposed Read More...
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