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Things friends have sent me of late…
My friends have sent me some things because I’m redoing my student pages in the next couple of weeks. Here are my friends’ suggestions on the comics I should use.
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Things I love about being a teacher
I actually got the comment that I have “insufficient references to Doctor Who, Sherlock, Monty Python, and Indiana Jones” on a reply form to my class. The last 15 minutes of class today was a tournament rock, paper, scissors style where they punished each other with dares like “stand in front of the entire class and say, ‘I am beautiful'” and “bow down to Ms. K and say ‘I am your girl. I will get A’s’.” I have never seen anyone as in to Rock Paper Scissors as this group of kids. I had a kid today say, “I like nerds and I like people, so I like this room…
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Research Essays
I sometimes forget that kids today don’t do research. In 5th grade I wrote a paper about sloths. It was a laborious one-card-per-fact sort of paper. By the end, I had more slothy knowledge than most people with ever need unless they are some sort of zoologist who specializes in sloths. To this day, I can give you facts about giant, three-toed, and two-toed sloths. I can tell you about legends. I can tell you about biology. Most of all, I can tell you that nothing beats going to talk to a person who loves sloths when you’re writing the mother of all research papers: a year-long 50 page paper…