Last week I posted a description and pictures of the notebook style I have been using with my students this year. As per some requests, this post is all about the stuff you can do on the ‘left side’ of the notebook. All of these ideas originated in the TCI History Alive book, and they [...]
Entries from October 2006
October 26, 2006
The end is in sight!
This weekend I will post all of the stuff (hopefully with downloadable diagrams????) that is in my ‘Notebook Toolbox’, but for the moment I am totally brain dead. These last two weeks have been completely nutty! The quarter is over next week, so all the major projects and tests need to be handed [...]
October 23, 2006
Notebooks
Here are some examples of student notebook work.
In this first picture, there are geographic terms on the right side, and pictures of the features on the left. This student did a picture for every term, so she had to carry it over onto other pages, but most students just drew pictures for the words they [...]
October 20, 2006
Left side or right side?
I get that question a lot this year since I am trying a new concept with student notebooks. Notebooks are often places where students take down ‘important’ information, usually in the form of teacher written notes that they almost never look at again. I know that teachers intend to have them record information that will [...]
October 19, 2006
Carnival!
This week it’s being hosted by Poor, Starving, College Student. Check it out!
October 18, 2006
nonsense update
The kid that ditched the last 6 days of school managed to show up this morning on time. As his homeroom teacher, I am ‘grounding’ him for the next two weeks. I figure he’s a flight risk so I am keeping him at lunch with me until next Friday. I may regret [...]
October 17, 2006
narratives and nonsense
I had forgotten how long it takes to read 70 student narratives. I spent the entire weekend reading the student’s first drafts and at this point my brain is completely numb. The quality of the writing was all over the place, but most kids managed to produce some sort of story based on a small [...]
October 13, 2006
Holy Cow!
On Tuesday I assigned the kids to write the first draft of their personal narratives. They were due today. I made a huge stink about how important it was that everyone do it, that they really needed to be able to participate in peer editing (doing that tomorrow), and how we really had [...]
October 13, 2006
Thirteen
13. It’s the average age of my students. It’s also the number of hours I spent at school today. Yes, that’s correct; I spent THIRTEEN hours at school. Just shoot me now. It was ‘Back To School’ night and we had parent meetings from 6-8pm. Since I don’t finish [...]
October 6, 2006
speechless!
I will post more on the wasabi lesson later, but for now, there are more pertinent issues at hand. I totally lost my voice today in the middle of the day. When I say totally, I mean COMPLETELY!!! I can’t produce any sort of sound, not even a whisper. It is [...]
