Alice, I Wonder

IDEAS

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:09:40 GMT

Write a test for 5th grade -- paragraphs about

MUSIC
(ask for more names they need for the test)
Beethoven
Mozart

Art
Complentary Colors
Contrasting Colors

Start all the sentences with "so" and "and." Have students correct the passage, then go

here
or
here
or
here.

OH AND TOTALLY USE THESE PICTURES TO DESCRIBE FOREGROUND/MIDGROUND/BACKGROUND

Here it is -- it's by Raphael, not Da Vinci, anyway.

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:01:32 GMT

THIS is the unicorn I was looking for.

Hey! I never knew about THIS painting!

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:33:41 GMT

Yay! Finding information about paintings is fun.

Of course Da Vinci painted a unicorn. Why not?

Of course, this is NOT the unicorn I was looking for......

WOW!

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:39:13 GMT

I love this ... Now I just need to find out when they are reading folk tales.
Even better are the jokes, but even better than THAT is the fact that if you read 7 of these stories in a row you will become enlightened.

I need to remember

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:03:05 GMT

this:

http://www.d91.net/keyboarding.htm

and this:

http://cdn.channel.aol.com/_media/ch_games/rhymebot.swf

DO YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS SO FUNNY???

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:30:35 GMT

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF050AD-Book_World.jpg#117

If you DON'T know what that is VERY VERY funny, then, well, you didn't watch nearly enough Reading Rainbow.......

Do you know what you can't do?

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:39:15 GMT

You can't edit THIS entry. Probably 'cause certain high school students were adding their teacher's names......

I found that out by reading about euphemisms.

And I learned a cool new phrase. Euphemism Treadmill. Because, I'm a teacher see, and we've noticed that children are no longer "retarted" they are "developmentally delayed," which will stick UNTIL "developmentally delayed" becomes the insult, and then we'll just change it again. Which is not a bad thing, really.

In the mean time, the computer named Titus is dead.

so try this word problem:

If you have 25 computers for 27 noisy impatient 4rth graders and 2 are dead and 1 has a mystery login that no one knows, how the hell do you plan on teaching "test-taking skills" ???

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:10:10 GMT

DEAD COMPUTER:

Titus. Thank you "thermal event"

UNUSEABLE COMPUTER:

Victoria. If I could JUST get I.T. to TALK to me about it.....THEY can put in the right username/password, and then WRITE IT DOWN and I could USE the damn thing!!

Earnest: Keeps freezing & needing reboots
Maud: Keeps freezing & needing reboots

AND NOW I'M ABOUT TO TEAR MY HAIR OUT 'CAUSE

Rhoda: Bad enough she has no sound, but now SHE is giving me the "thermal event" error message.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Of course, I DID name the computers after a bunch of children who died, so I guess I have no one to blame but myself......

Thu, 03 May 2007 18:52:02 GMT

Stupid Vandals.

(Actually I was irritated 'cause I wanted to know WHAT was being written -- something racist, maybe? But you can tell what was written. Probably just a particularly annoying class in a tagging war during a research assignment.)

I may have to move here:

Tue, 01 May 2007 19:42:39 GMT

And it's called "Narnia," in Latin.

But I'm NOT moving to the Isle of Sky. Lee can tell you why.

Also, a narnia is a bug, too. A coreidae, to be exact. I may have to write a story about a kid with her pet narnia.

Re-Naming The Computers

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:04:57 GMT

Oroginally, they were named after the Gashlycrumb Tinies.

armstrong (lou)
beethoven
cassat
degas
england castles (famous)
fred jones junior memorial musuem
garcia (carmen)
hopper, edward?
indian art, native american?
jones junior memorial museum, fred
k
leonardo devinci
monet?
n
o'keef?
picasso
quncero by Carmen Garcia
raphel
southwestern pueblos???
t amalada??
unicorns damn it!!!
vincent van gough (or tamalada)
waterhouse???
x
y

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:31:51 GMT

[Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<pero [...] verme.>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]

Al hacer esta lectura dos veces, me dio una perspective general que no recibí al leer la primera vez. En la lectura sequnda, hice noté eluso de razonamiento lógico como análisis, el uso de adjetivos, a veces muchos, para describer a una persona mentalmente consciente, los modelos de tratando pensar de esta persona, y por qué este hombre está encaprichado con esta mujer. También, en esta monografíaas palabras <<existencialismo>> con la asociación del <<pesimismo>> se examinaran y cómo sabato está implicadó en un possible tríangulo de amor. Pero María alerta: <<pero no="no" sé="sé" qué="qué" ganará="ganará" con="con" verme.="verme." hago="Hago" mal="mal" a="a" todos="todos" los="los" que="que" me="me" acercan.1="acercan.1">>
El teme de este cuento es del hombre de más inteligencia que tiene amor por una mu jer excéntrica y en consecuencia hay tragedía.
En sus escritos Ernesto Sabato escribe su intención de <<el túnel:="túnel:">> Su observación en los origin y su vision de literature y afirma el necesitad de una rebellion romantico en literature a causa de ficción of reció un modelo de se integrando des integarse hombre.2
Por con siguente, los siguentes punto se examinarán en mi monografía de <<el tunnel="tunnel">> por Ernesto Sabato: El ciclo de la historia en relacción a la literatura española con la influencia de Miguel de Unamuno de España, la palabra <<el existencialismo="existencialismo">> para definer con las posibles en señanzas de Sartre y Camus, la psicologia de la soledad en relación al sufrimiento y porúltimo el uso de la palabra <<pesimismo>> en este cuento breve, racional y lógico.

Lo antes dichas son mi propósito para el fundamento de esta monografia con documentación al pie de la página.
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En escribir esta monografía, los cuarto puntos in cluyen en esta monografía debe un relacción al título: Cuánto sufrimento debe una persona tolerar? Posible angustia fisico o mental? Un absolute desconfía de los démas en la sociedad. El ciclo de historia en aguel año reflejaba absolute desconfía y los enseñanzas de existencialismo en relacción al discurso en la sociedad con la fundación en el libro. <<el túnel="túnel">> por Ernesto Sábato. Como mi mentor dijó anos atras <<se deja="deja" vivir="vivir" y="y" ayuda="ayuda" dejarse="dejarse">>: este frase no tiene importancia en mi vida. Estoy desarollanda la psicologia de permancecer neutral. Este frase es necessiar como mi punto de vista de <<existencialismo.>>
Yo necesito definir la palabra <<existencialismo:>> un breve, corto definición: <<como la="la" alienación,="alienación," la="la" in="in" comunicación,="comunicación," la="la" ambiguedad="ambiguedad" moral="moral" y="y" la="la" experiencia="experiencia" de="de" la="la" obsurdo="obsurdo" en="en" la="la" sociedad="sociedad" que="que" emergía="emergía" de="de" la="la" segunda="segunda" guerra="guerra" mundial.="mundial.">> 1
Hay palabras que represtan el horror y desilusionado que reflejan las en seazas del existencialismo:

Angustia, abandonado, y desesperado. Existencialismo tiene los origenes en Fydor Dustoevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre y Albert Camus. Lo responde despues la seguna mundial guerra. <<el siguente="siguente" son="son" palabras="palabras" de="de" jean="Jean" paul="Paul" sartre="Sartre" con="con" feferencia="feferencia" al="al" existensialismo="existensialismo" como="como" sábato="Sábato" cree="cree" in="in" dios,="Dios," pero="pero" hombre="hombre" quiere="quiere" su="su" meta="meta" entre="entre" el="el" subjeunctiva="subjeunctiva" y="y" objecto.="objecto." <<dios="<<dios">>, Pero, los ensenzas <<dios>>, letra pequerad, no tiene alto priordad.
Pero, los ensenzas de los dios son exactos y voluntarios. 2 El hombre no es nada diferente de lo que el hace con si mismo. 3

En mí opinion, el sufrimento constamente de la gente fue un resultado en los paises de Europa y en los <<1940’s>> las noticias que Papá Pius XII vive en miedo de silenco sobre el sufrimento de los judios y el miedo de que Mussolini y hitler guieren bombar el vaticano: como un resultado, el existencialismo a naco y prospero. Hombre proyecta su destino sila ayuda de lios es necesario.
Sobre el autor Albert Camus, el autor tuvo una vida muycorta. Nació noviembre 7, 1913 y murió enero 4, 1960. Este autor recibió un prernio nóbel de literatura en 1957. El se opusó al totalarismo.

I demand to be called

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:36:12 GMT

The Greatest Computer Teacher In The World

Because I'm introducing the vocabulary word "blog"
this as the corresponding activity.

There is SO MUCH I could do with just this one site --- so much reading comprehension opportunities -- and state games -- and tying in with a state they are reading about -- all except Oklahoma, of course.

But LORD I need to slow down with these little ones and introduce some vocabulary words: mouse, double click, right click, internet, to begin with......

Wow

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:40:15 GMT

They sure glossed over that whole bigomy issue. Join in with the chores...right.

So, basically, Utah is about Mormons and dinosaurs.

Summer School

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:32:52 GMT

at home I have

a clock
a radio
baskets
zip lock bags
stickers AND NAME TAGS
THE SUBS NAME AND NUMBER!!!
paper to draw on
file folder box

From Walmart I can get

big chalk
wipies
paper towels
64 box crayons and markers
glue -- 4 bottles
a snack
pencil sharpeners
clip boards

Maybe I can sneek back into my room and steal
dinosaur cut outs
various cut outs

Wouldn't it be nice to go hogwild at Classroom Connections and buy

file folders?
writing center materials?
motivation chart?
stickers?

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:23:54 GMT

NO WAY!!!

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/Dojo?SampleActivity=True&Topic=singledigitaddition&COOK=

This ROCKS!!!

H week

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:59:00 GMT

Just break down and buy it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/offer-listing/B000003UE3/qid=1133981769/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1a//002-5321129-8648043?condition=all

Are there Edward Hopper stickers on Amazon?

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:07:53 GMT

Good idea from Manuel
Print and make everyone do it

Manuel Antonio
May 7, 1992
Nickname: Boomer
FAVERITESPORT: SOCCER
FAVERITECOLOR: BLUE
THE JOB I WANT TO DO : AVIATION
BROTHERS: 4
STEPBROTHERS: 4

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:33:40 GMT

TO DO WHEN YOU GET BACK:

Finish enrolling list on the blue chair

Send each teacher letter with
-their pass word
-their sekret child's name
-list of instructions

Which you can find on the computer Clara

Have children write spell/voc while you data imput for AR.

www.carmenlomasgarza.com/

Get Shelley to do your Duty so you can finish AR

After school -- SET UP FOR NCLB teachers -- while you stay and do AR.

Quotes

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:02:00 GMT

The work of a teacher (is) exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same.....

--William Ayres

Who is William Ayres? No idea. But I like this quote so much I'm cutting it into little bitty parts and posting it one part at a time.

To Do List before Storybook Land Day

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:02:47 GMT

to do:

Make screen savers of St. George's Flag
LAST Class: Make background St. George & the dragon
---or do dragons next week for d?
OR: make background of castle interiors
St. George Wordfind??
Copy Picture?

and read this when you have time:

http://www.southern.ohiou.edu/realmagic/JebB3.html

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:12:56 GMT

YES YES YESYES YES!!!!!!!!!!

They go here:

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/dragons/38.html

to get pictures for wallpaper.

They can go here:

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/dragons/index.html

to learn about dragons.

NOTE TO SELF

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:21:49 GMT

Check out:

funbrain.com

Do you want to add this to favorites??

AND

epals

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:21:11 GMT

pbskids.org is the best place EVER.

Activities for First Grade:
Clifford -- Puppy Letters (easy)
Clifford -- Measure Up
Read Between The Lions -- Look Out Below
***Read Between The Lions -- Pounce***
Read Between The Lions -- ABCow
AVOID RBTL ALPHABET SOUP
Read Between The Lions -- Gwain's Word
Read Between The Lions -- Fuzzy Lion Ears
Arthur -- Story Scramble
Arthur -- About Face

Activities for Second Grade:
Read Between The Lions -- Flood
Clifford -- Puppy Letters (hard)
Arthur -- Story Scramble
Arthur -- About Face
Arthur -- Ice Cream
Arthur -- You've Got To Be Kidding

Activities for Third Grade:
Arthur -- Ice Cream
Bernstein Bears -- Storytime
Arthur -- You've Got To Be Kidding

Activities for Fourth Grade??
Arthur -- Ice Cream
Bernstein Bears -- Storytime

and DEAR LORD I was only half way through the list before I got dizzy and quit. But I'll tell you -- working on 3 computers is AWESOME.

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:20:34 GMT

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/gawain.html

This is the funniest thing EVER.

NO SERIOUSLY.