Posts Tagged ‘governator’

Not just a couple of weeks, but a couple of months.  I needed to get FAR away from the wild things, and I did.   I roamed all over.
But now tomorrow’s the first day of the new year, and today was wrap-up of last year.
We got our scores today, both last year’s class’s results and this [...]

All first and second grade teacher RELISH winter break.  No duh, you say.  Who wouldn’t devour three weeks off, not a care in the world (NOTE: failing economy with daily headlines about the Governator cutting jobs, cutting education budgets, cutting the school year, cutting yacht taxes… hmm…one of these things just doesn’t belong here.)  But [...]

We all deal with it. Some more than others. All day I tried to find ways to teach physically. We were pirates (tomorrow being International Talk Like a Pirate Day). We were long vowels standing tall and short ones crouching down. We used unifix cubes all through math.

8 kids mostly [...]