Donate Now My students have binders for my class.  Each student has a binder that lives on the shelf at the back of my room.  In theory, they retrieve this binder at the beginning of class and put them away at the end of each class. On occasion, the binders are not put away properly. …

Donate Now I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Sundays.  On the one hand, it’s a perfectly lovely weekend day.  On the other hand, it always ends with the knowledge that I must go back to school the next day. This year, I have come to have more of a hate-hate relationship with Sundays.  There…

A fight nearly broke out in 2nd period today.  In fact, it got so heated that an administrator had to come down the hall to make sure everything was ok.  This fight of potentially epic proportions was about…   The volume of a sphere.   That’s right.  My 8th graders started fighting about who could…

Today, we did a polling lab.  We polled the class about their favorite soda, found the percent of the class that likes each soda, and then extrapolated to find out how many people in the school would like each soda.   Me:  “You must pick one category–Coke, Dr Pepper, Sprite, or Other.  If you prefer…

For the third quarter, I have morning duty.  Basically, I have to watch kids filter from the buses to the gym and make sure that they a.) don’t hurt each other, b.) keep moving, and c.) have their shirts tucked in.  It’s not exactly glamorous, but it certainly makes for some interesting moments: Me:  “Good…