I know that a school can place limits on what students can write. I have personally asked that students avoid some topics at various points in my career (e.g., please don’t write about abortion). I learned eventually that there were…
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Roofing people are crawling all over. There is a lot of heavy dropping of things up on the roof. The whole house rumbles. My own mini-earthquake. I’m expecting the windows to all be broken by the end of the day.…
Today, blissfully unaware that my ceiling was falling in, I caught a wooly worm and brought him in the building. I was thinking of catching them when I was little. Probably 6 or 7. Whenever I see wooly worms, I…
When I left this morning, the roofing folks were up on the roof removing the shingles. They couldn’t start till today because of rain last week. When I came home this evening, there was a hole in my ceiling. Apparently…
From ASCD’s SmartBrief: “Parents curb children’s online time“ Many concerned parents are setting limits to ensure their children don’t go overboard in using cell phones, instant messaging and other digital media. A study this summer found that although teenagers’ computer…
Recovered some old notes from a year ago that were originally intended for a TechNote. I never finished it, but thought that the ideas might still be useful to someone. “JFK Reloaded Game Causes Controversy” by Jason Tuohey (PCWorld) “Games…
Edited and posted another elementary lesson plan. This one is K-2 and was written by one of NCTE’s book authors. It’s tied to Chapter One of Joy Moss’s Literature, Literacy, and Comprehension Strategies in the Elementary School. The lesson, Comparing…
Friday is apparently odds and ends day this week: I added the Gettysburg lessons to the Gettysburg Address calendar entry. Then there was the fun of cleaning up the broken links on the site. A new broken links report comes…
This morning at work, I finished editing a 3-5 lesson plan that uses an Avi book, Alter Egos and More with Avi’s “Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?”. The abstract explains, “Today’s elementary students bring many experiences with a variety…
Today has been totally mixed up. It was pouring rain this morning, so no dumpster in the driveway and no work on a new roof that I can’t afford in the first place. Will it be tomorrow? Saturday? Monday? Who…