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There are days when I'd love to share some thing that happened but I don't want to hijack a thread or start a new one. For example, yesterday, I introduced the trigonometric ratios and used Mt. SohCahToa as a memory aid. A hand went up and the question was....drum roll please.... "Is Mt. Sohcahtoa a real place?". Gotta love 9th graders.
Anyway, it would be nice to have a place to just talk about our day.
Thanks.
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How about this...today we were talking post-WWII America and got to talking about nukes (North Korea) and Japan. I suggested any nukes from North Korea would be intercepted over the ocean. One of my honors students asked if the nukes blew up over the ocean and fell into the water ---
Funny story that goes back several years. We were mapping China in my 7th grade history class. A student raised his hand and asked me why "they" (textbook publishers) wrote all of the city names in Chinese? I walked over, looked at his "evidence", took the textbook out of his hands and turned it right-side-up. He was SERIOUS too!
Funny story that goes back several years. We were mapping China in my 7th grade history class. A student raised his hand and asked me why "they" (textbook publishers) wrote all of the city names in Chinese? I walked over, looked at his "evidence", took the textbook out of his hands and turned it right-side-up. He was SERIOUS too!
They say there is no dumb question but I once got this question from an honors student who asked
me "What day is the 4th of July?"
Funny story that goes back several years. We were mapping China in my 7th grade history class. A student raised his hand and asked me why "they" (textbook publishers) wrote all of the city names in Chinese? I walked over, looked at his "evidence", took the textbook out of his hands and turned it right-side-up. He was SERIOUS too!
That's hilarious. Thank you for making me laugh out loud.
Last week I was grading papers from one of my reading groups. There was a story they had to read which was centered around exercise and being healthy. One of the questions on the paper said, "List 2 things that you could do to get in better shape. My 2nd grade student who has a speech/language processing impairment wrote, "I could put my body in the shape of a square. I could put my body in the shape of a circle."
We practice making reflections and supporting the reflection. At the end of our fourth grade unit about the American Revolution, the students answered the following:
What was the most important thing you learned about the Revolution? Explain why it is important. To the first question, a student answered, "That the Americans won World War Two".
I'm newly retired from 25 years of teaching & am substitute teaching for my "kid fix."
This week I had to administer the standardized test to a class. After the exam, the kids were getting a little noisy during partner work.
So I flicked the lights, a universal signal for quiet down in every school in which I've taught. The kids all screeched & jumped under their desks. At this school, it is a signal for a lock-down!
I have a lot to learn again
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Gotta love 9th graders. 
He was SERIOUS too!
