so i have to laugh – i guess – but the opening activity today with first grade – as suggested by my trusty teaching manual – was to give kids milk and tell them we’re going to learn about a lady who gave milk to someone today – from Judges 4 – and if you don’t have a bible or you don’t remember the story – yes, Jael does offer milk – but it’s sort of a trap (if driving a stake through your head is a trap:)
oh, how i’ve read this week…
“operation yes” – an elem BOB – it was good – again, elem BOB pulls ahead of middle school this year in choices – very impressed – and if memory serves me, “yes” and “3 times lucky” both involved middle school characters – i guess kids like to read about the grades just ahead of them and fancy a wonderful time to come
“a field guide for missions” – creative – looked for things to incorporate into class – mission accomplished
“1001 tips for writers” – surprisingly short – just quotes – b/c “everywhere is a quote” 🙂
“self-driven learning” – book on helping students see how to motivate themselves – good book – lots of pages i liked and will copy this week – the book emphasized the relationship over the information when teaching – that students will do a lot, learn a lot, when they enjoy a class – vs. just getting a bunch of info – the author’s background as a community organizer was a boost
“conversations with steve martin” – i have learned a lot – second book on martin in the month – he’s a really creative mind – great example of creative talent – b/c he went from stand-up comedy to movies to screenwriting to playwriting to non-fiction/memoir to novels to kid’s books to twitter to banjo song-writing – pretty cool talents he’s developed
nicole and the detective are at fred’s now in the book – they’re conversing over what happened at camp – fred is desperately trying to get the girls to see that the real evil isn’t tragedy bear – it’s ann marie and waffles… 🙂
maf
First…
Wow. Tent pegs, milk, waffles, and tragedy bears. I can’t wait for next school year.
True tragedy bear has come when you go home and find melted ice cream running out of your freezer. Is anyone else experiencing owed outages?
hello
Last! is my best friend
my first graders had some issues – well, one did – he had to sleep in the family room – which he said he enjoyed anyway – but he declared he had a poptart, milk, and other items that made me question the power thing – mom confirmed it though
of course, my kids are all up in northern shelby county – the “rich” part of the world – so i was surprised there were issues
and the debris in chelsea park was very random – some spots, nothing – other spots, like an enraged hobo had been set loose…
Well… Chase was at Nana’s last night, soooo…..
Issues? I’m blogging from an iPhone’s cell service. We still have no power, no land line, and no internet. I was reading when the power went out.
U did pay your utility bill right?
Otherwise i’d say it’s karma for hating the movie
I blame Tragedy Bear. And the movie was (to use a pun) okay.
are you sure it isn’t the evil mastermind behind the waffles???
bears and binders are natural enemies – that’s one of the most important lessons to learn from my upcoming story – so if you see alabama power, you might want to warn them
good pun – although i don’t think my first graders would’ve caught it (they had trouble with the “God is good” “all the time” and “all the time” “God is good” chant today – but they did finish snack w/o a water spill – so that was an improvement
Very improved. 🙂
Alabama Power is actually in my yard right now…
don’t make any sudden movements – you’ll scare them away
Somehow Dad managed to get our internet and TV working, but power is still down. I am definitely going to be at the library tomorrow. No way am I going with my mother at 4:00 tomorrow morning to babysit.
The worst thing about this is the fact that we have NO AIR CONDITIONING. I’m going to die! My bedroom is so incredibly hot!
I got the POWER!!!
Finally
For the first time in forever,
There is cooling, there is light!
For the first time in forever,
My world has been set right!
Don’t know if the company fixed it,
Or it came back on its own-
But for the first time in forever-
The cooling came back on!
Hey guys I’m blogging from the Bahamas! There’s no internet down here so I finally found some wi-fi. Unfortunately I couldn’t be first. I’ll be back Saturday!
No library trips today, I’m at home. Why???? Oh well. Now I can do my journals, I suppose.
going to the library at some point today
well, you obviously weren’t at the library when i was there today homer bear – and it was a shame – some five year old checked out 1/2 the picture books with his nana – why isn’t there a limit on such??? i’d just make my orphan kenyan child pick five books and reread them until he got them correct before we went back – confession, that five-year-old was like my sister, growing up – and she never reads today – so maybe that’s why i’m mad:)
i can’t go now not allowed for some reason might be my parents aren’t here
i can go tomorrow though
and now fred enters the picture…
“After that, the girls threw their S’mores into the woods during the big campout, and they hijacked the music at the final dance so that ‘I just want to be your Tragedy Bear’ played non-stop.”
“I can give you a sample,” the detective begged.
“I’m not sure it’s in my playlist…” Fred got out before the detective sang:
“I don’t want to be a
Ninja Goose
Cuz Ninja Gooses fly too far
I don’t want to be a young boy
Cuz young boys don’t got no car
So let me be
Your Tragedy Bear
Follow his voice speaking to me
And led me anywhere
Oh, let me be (oh let me be)
Your Tragedy Bear!”
“Are you sure you don’t want to get a stick?” Fred said.
That’s the detective version of Royals by Lorde, isn’t it?
Well i was going with elvis and teddy bear
But royals sure:)
Found out that im the best chanter. I finally learned someting. We studied about pizza and poker
It’s raining… AGAIN!
And i don’t think driving a stake into someones head is a trap i think it is a fun game i like to play with strangers. Don’t tell the cops
Finally! Library time!
we need to come up with a system – i thought about going in at 11 – but i was covered in sweat – after running for an hour – there should be a drive-thru section of the library to see the detective
did your sister read the elem BOBs? I just finished “escape from lemoncello’s library” – okay, that book was a lemon…
i am actually going
Bri read ‘Escape From Lemoncello’s Library’ and ‘What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World’, but no more… And the library is FULL of old women doing knitting circles.
Do any of you know how LOUD knitting old women are? I could probably start singing and not be noticed.
We’ve been in here since 10:50.
And so have the old women. The old women who are incredibly loud. Sooooooo loud! And ‘Shakespeare’s Secret’ is great!
i hate puddles walking back from the library oddly in the rain shirt barely got wet legs got soaked. detective had no glasses so it was hard to spot her
and i almost forgot to update you on my book. On the Shoulders of Giants by Stephen Hawking
the old women can be loud – i agree – it’s good that i didn’t go in at 11 b/c they don’t understand runner sweat:)
when i went in before running – near 10 – there was a dance off in the community room??? not sure who was in there, but crazy loud music
Dance off? Woah… I hope it wasn’t those old ladies…
Oh, yeah, I have contacts now! I get to look like an elf now!
This is Detective R. Reeves, coming to you live from the Ford Quicklane in Pelham, where it is raining very hard, and they are showing soap operas on TV.
contacts are cool – i had to wait until i was in eighth grade – of course, you’re so much more mature than i was… 🙂
apparently, my run today triggered monsoon season
It’s STILL raining, and I want lunch… Why does it have to rain so hard?
meanwhile, today’s soap operatic story…
“Now, this is good,” Morgan Elizabeth interjected when she saw the clip above them. “Here, Sarah Nicole opened her tablet in her binder and showed Tragedy Bear’s commercial about preventing forest fire.”
“Ooh, burn!!!” Fred said. “I guess that shut those kids up.”
“No,” the detective said, “the campers, well, our ex-campers, said that protest fires are different from forest fires.”
The rain has stopped temporarily-but we still have no car. They’re changing the tires and the oil. Thank goodness I have a book to read. “Shakespeare’s Secret” was disappointing to me as a detective: they promised mystery, but they lied. There was very little mystery. Although, there were lots of good Shakespeare references in it, which was redeeming.
yep, it’s really a good elem read – but the shakespeare references are good
My roomate got sick and taken to the hospital last night and got back a little before 10. Part of our scavenger hunt was to take a picture of an emergency vehicle and we saw an ambulance (hey 30 points is 30 points). He’s all better now and i have magic tricks.
Roooooabcdefghijklmnopqtrstuvwxyzel congrats on contacts, i tried and couldn’t get them in (Im a failure)
billy, did you get to see vandy’s big win monday??? hope so
I’m serenading my sister with Frozen soundtrack songs. We are being bored children in my dad’s office. We have been prohibited from shooting the wall with paperclips.
i think i’m prohibited from suggesting anything else in the curriculum meeting
story time!!!
“I suggested more of a dramatic opening,” the detective said, “We get the binder to play music – or I could just bum-bum-bum along and then Sarah Nicole comes out and says…
‘It is a period of civil war. A detective
And a superhero, striking from a secretive
Diner, have won their first victory
Against the Tragedy Bear Empire.
During the battle, the detective manages
To steal the secret plans to Tragedy Bear’s
Ultimate weapon, the stuffed animal, a bear
With enough psychological power
To destroy and entire Princess Sarah Elizabeth camp.
Facing a fiery group of ex-campers,
Sarah Nicole and the detective race into battle,
Keepers of the magic binder that can save
The campers, well, most of them, and
Restore freedom to the galaxy.’
Oooooh… I like this one!
there needs to be insanity bear