Vocab for a Cause

Want your students to practice and learn new vocabulary words? Want to take part in a program to help feed the less fortunate around the world? Want to do both at the same time?
Have your students check out the website Free Rice, where they can learn new vocublary words, increase their thinking skills [...]

Your Days in Sentences

Here’s the thirty-second installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each week I’ll post them along with links to the authors’ blogs.
Day in a Sentence can’t exist without you and your reflection on teaching. Please consider submitting your day in one [...]

Apple Nuts Unite!

If you use a mac in school or in preparing for school, you need to check out this list of free mac applications for the classroom. It’s a doozy.
I don’t even want to disclose how many of those applications I have and use.

SURPRISE! Your Days in Sentences

There was a bigger response than I’d expected, so I pushed up the publishing date by a week. We’ll resume our regular Day in a Sentence Schedule on Tuesday. Enjoy!
Welcome to the twenty-ninth installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each [...]

The Imaginary Classroom: Part Three

Click the following links to find the original posts: Part 2 and Part 1.
My idea is to create and build an online classroom that can be accessed from the school as well as at home — this classroom would ideally function as a language arts class, but I also envision that students could use this [...]

Frustration Level: Maximum

The other day I saw a post by mrc (at his blog, understanding) entitled: “Trivial Annoyances Add Up”, and I had to leave a comment because I’ve been having the same feelings lately. It’s a short post, and I suggest you check it out, but I will share this snippet that had me nodding [...]

Your Days in Sentences

Here’s the eighteenth installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each week I’ll post them along with links to the authors’ blogs.
And, as usual, any new authors who enter are added to the blogroll.

First up we have Karen, who writes:
It’s only [...]

Carnival!

Time once again for the Carnival of Education, hosted this week by Dr. Homeslice!
As Always, you’ll find plenty of links to what’s going on in classrooms today, as told by teachers themselves — And how can you not feel comfortable in a place where the host begins with “Howdy.”

Calvin and Hobbes — the world’s greatest teachers

Surfing through Digg today led me to a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.
A little digging through the comments led me to a searchable database of C&H comics.
Search for anything and you’ll find it. “School” brings up some bona-fide gems. If you’re looking for (one of my favorite Calvin incarnations) “Spaceman Spiff,” [...]

Your Days in Sentences

Here’s the fifteenth installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each week I’ll post them along with links to the authors’ blogs.
And, as usual, any new authors who enter are added to the blogroll.
First up, we have Browneyedgirlie, who writes:
Had my [...]