Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Random Thoughts

* Sometimes it's just nice to have a full period of just practice on current topics without feeling you have to physically "teach".

* Kids that are chatty and goofy to you and seem to disrupt the class are welcome diversions for some other students ("thanks for making class fun").

* Sometimes students just feel like zoning out by 7th period because they've had to sit in their seats ALL day, and they're tired after lunch, and they need a brain break.

* Having kids volunteer to go caroling to another math class with your "fraction song" is fun.

* Some kids are so shy they never talk to their group mates, and so their groupmates never talk to them, and so the kid feels like no one likes them. Note to self: take another groupmate aside and ask her to make a special effort to talk with this shy one.

* Losing your school keys and STILL not finding them after 2 weeks even though you KNOW you opened your classroom door with them and then POOF they were gone is creeping you out.

* What stays in the corner but goes around the world?

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:09 PM

    ok I have to ask - how goes the fraction song?

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  2. Anonymous11:41 PM

    "What stays in the corner but goes around the world?"

    A stamp, of course! I collected stamps when I was a kid, and I still sometimes buy extra blocks of stamps that I like and throw them in drawers or file folders. I'm not sure why I do that, knowing that I'll probably never have time to organize them.

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  3. Well, I printed out the lyrics to the fraction song in the March 7, 2006 entry, so you can find it there, if you like (or in the blog search at the top of the page type "fraction song", and it'll show the entry). In fact, we had requests for more caroling today :).

    And, mrc, yes! you cleverly got the answer.

    Ms. Cookie

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