So at my school, there's a huge hubub about Dr. Seuss' birthday on Friday. Seriously, more precedence has been given to this event ...

Howdy folks, There are still a couple of days left in February, but I'll be honest. I'm itching to get March Madness started! S...

Here was an actual conversation in my room today... Me: What are the types of energy that we talked about yesterday? Student 1: Light! Me:...

We had Monday off (President's Day), and I took yesterday off for my birthday. So today was my first day to go to school this week. Th...

Hey everyone, it's my birthday! WOOHOO!! And for this special day, I have done a few things. Number 1, I have taken the day off from s...

Last Friday, as a brief prelude to our upcoming unit in science, I gave the kids a paper that had 2 claims on it. #1: The surface of the ea...

Yet another "not quite full" week of school this past week. We did go Monday through Friday, but Tuesday was a "Horizontal P...

I have a confession to make. I used the "s-word" in class yesterday. Repeatedly. Fed up with seeing the same kids coasting throu...

Well whadda ya know? Out of the blue, I received an email saying that my blog had been nominated for a "Fascination Award" under ...

Over the Christmas break, I finally read a review copy of a book that I had been sent by Jonathan Grant, a former newsman in Georgia. The b...

I received a new review on the Amazon page for Learn Me Good last night, and it kind of stunned me. It wasn't that it was a 1-star rat...

I had a really good day today, with both classes. I showed them how to use the "Part-Part-Whole" strategy to write fractions. Th...

So I just spent about half an hour writing some variation of the same theme on 18 notecards. The main idea was "We saw in our experime...

On January 1st, I did accomplish something. I took a song that I had made back in 2009 and put it up on YouTube. This song is called Chili...

Ladies and gentlemen -- I present to you -- INTERACTIVE MONDAY! (On Tuesday, yes; I'm a little behind.) So my question today is How was...

Happy New Year, everyone!! Have a fabulous 2012! To kick off the new year, I am putting Learn Me Good (Kindle version) on sale for --- FRE...

It's almost the end of 2011, and as has become tradition, I've put together a little year-end wrap-up. Enjoy, and be safe during ...

Friday was our last day of school before the Christmas Break, and there were SEVERAL stand-out moments from the day to last in memory for so...

'Twas the night before Christmas (Break), and all through the house, Just one creature was blogging, while using his mouse. Tomorrow is ...

The good folks at Worth Ave. Group are sponsoring a contest to give away a few nice hefty technology grants to America's favorite teach...