Welcome post!

Hi there! I decided that I wouldn't post about my day so much today as give a shout out and welcome to any visitors (and hopefully new readers) that are stopping by. Of course, I don't want to snub anybody who's been reading for a while, so hello to you too!

For those of you who are new, thanks for checking out the site! Feel free to leave comments on posts that you have read! After you surf around and read a few posts, please take a minute and sign my guest book at the bottom of the page. If you would like Learn Me Good in your inbox or in your RSS reader, just click one of those links.

Become a FoLMeG! That's Friend of Learn Me Good, for the uninitiated. Just click "Follow" over in the sidebar. It won't make your hair grow or plate your car with gold, but it's still considered an elite group.

With it being the beginning of the school year, now's the perfect time to grab a copy of Learn Me Good, an embellished and fictionalized (but barely) version of my first year as a teacher. Print copies can be found here, but if you have a Kindle, go here!

I hope that you come back often, and please tell a friend to visit!

Video review

Lazy Sunday here at Mister Teacher's house. Still recovering my voice, hoping I'll be able to talk to the kids tomorrow. Football game on the background, rooting my fantasy teams on. Thought it'd be a good time to put up a couple of links.

The Darth Vader video has sort of plateaued, but if you haven't seen it yet, or if you have friends who haven't seen it yet, please check it out again, and comments are always welcome!

Same goes for the Learn Me Good infomercial -- my tribute to Billy Mays! Makes a great Halloween gift, Thanksgiving gift, or Christmas gift!

Do you know anyone who could use a healthy dose of Fractorix? Check out the video and see if you or your loved ones exhibit any of the symptoms.


Also, don't forget to sign the guestbook at the bottom of my page!

a few odds and ends

This week's Mr. Teacher column on education.com was supposed to be my wonderings on where all of my students are, seeing as how I only have 12 kids in my homeroom and 10 in my afternoon class. I think because of the long weekend, though, there wasn't enough time to proof it and get it online, so instead, there is a rerun of Save the Crossing Guard Save the World from last October. Check it out and relive the memories!

Darth Vader Explains the Pythagorean Theorem is now up over 17,000 hits since Saturday! And while around 7,000 of those hits are coming from the London Times article, there are many, many other sites that are running it too! Including this one in espanol!!

Lastly, please take a moment to sign my guestbook at the bottom of the main page. I always like to know a little bit more about who's reading...

An award and a guest book!

A little while ago, AwayWeGo at Where's the Sun nominated me for a blog award -- The Brilliante Weblog Award!






I am very honored to have this honor bestowed upon me, in my honor, Your Honor. According to the rules of the award, I need to pass this honor on to seven other blogs, so let me just go ahead and get the nominations started.

I hereby bestow the Brilliante Weblog Award to the following entertaining blogs:

So You Want to Teach,

Regurgitated Alphabits,

La Chucheria,

HappyChyck,

Bell Ringers,

IMC Guy,

Mrs. Bluebird,

The Scholastic Scribe

(OK, so that's eight instead of seven, but the rules do say AT LEAST seven.)


And now for something that I like to do on a semi-regular basis...


I always like to know where people are visiting this blog from, and who is reading my stuff (not to mention who keeps leaving the cap off the toothpaste), so I would ask you all to sign my guestbook! I've just installed a brand new "slide" guestbook at the bottom of this page, so please go there, and tell me where you're from, what you teach (or what you do), and something interesting about yourself.


Figured the weekend before the new school year started was a perfect time to call roll.

New Year's Greetings

Hello readers!

It's 2008! Or at least, as I'm writing this, it WILL be 2008 in just a few hours. So like they say in the song, "May old acquaintance be forgot..." and let's make some new acquaintances!

As I like to do at the beginning of a new year, I'm going to throw open the guest book once again!

Here's how this works -- if you are reading this, please leave a comment listing your name, your location, and one interesting fact about yourself.

I look forward to hearing from all of you in the new year!

Be safe!