January 2009 - Posts
Today is the last day of January, and thus the last day of what I consider an extremely successful month of Guest Posting here at Learn Me Good! In addition, yesterday, Jan 30, marked the 3-year blogiversary of Learn Me Good! But back to the Guest Posting
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This post is from Friday, Jan 30: Today's Guest Post comes from a Ms. Stephanie Bowyer, who runs a blog called Not Just Surviving. Stephanie writes about Kinesthetic Learners in the Classroom. It's interesting to see how this post complements Intellteacher's
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This post is from Thursday, Jan 29: Today's Guest Poster is none other than the Prolific Scribbler herself -- The Scholastic Scribe ! If you haven't checked out her SX3 challenges on Sundays, then you're really missing out, because they are usually some
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Two great items on the agenda today: 1) My Spreadshirt T-shirt store is having a Valentine's Day Sale, and you can save 14% on purchases from now until 2/11! Be sure to use code FEB19. and 2) Mr. D from I Want to Teach Forever is our Guest Poster today!
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Today's Guest Post comes from a California teacher that many may recognize -- Ms. Teacher ! Her post is a bit heavier than the usual fare here at Learn Me Good, but it's a powerful example of how teachers just need to go with their instinct sometimes.
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I got a notice this weekend that the people who do reviews for Lulu, the company that I used to self-publish my book, Learn Me Good, had finally put up a review for me! It starts off just a BIT depressingly, but then turns into a nice glowing review .
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We have come to the final week of the Learn Me Good January of Guest Posters! And this week, there are some excellent guests to read and visit! Today I present another fellow DISD teacher, Kathy, whose blog is called Trimming the Bonsai . Kathy is a Technology
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Earlier this week, I was doing a lesson pronouns with my ESL kids. We were practicing writing a sentence with a noun and then expounding on that with the use of pronouns. As prompts for their sentences, I pulled out about a dozen of the large picture
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Today I have a very special treat for people who have been reading edublogs for a while. One of the original FoLMeGs (Friends of Learn Me Good) has been convinced to come out of "retirement" and write a Guest Post. Many of you remember the wildly popular
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As we draw to the close of a 3-day school week (I know, teachers worked 4 days, but we only had the kids for 3 days), I present this week's Mr. Teacher column at education.com. Titled, " Those Short Weeks are Killers !" it's sort of a rehashing of one
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For me to say that I have a guest poster today is a bit of an understatement, so let me try a different approach. Today, I have a GUEST POSTER who went above and beyond the call of duty, submitting an entry that comes in at over 1,000 words! That's more
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OK, so I can stop humming the Inauguration Day Blues, as I hinted at in an earlier post. It turns out that one of the teachers across the hall DID have a cable attached to her TV, so several of us watched the inauguration in her classroom. They also had
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Today's Guest Poster is a fellow Dallas ISD teacher who blogs under the name AND at the site 100 Farmers . Farmers writes a very "A Christmas Story" themed story about kids and their BB gun injuries after Winter Break. Her story is titled, "Have a good
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I am and always have been decidedly apolitical. I can't stand politics, it just makes me feel dirty. However, the inauguration of our nation's very first-ever black president is something that I am interested in seeing. Unfortunately, tomorrow -- inauguration
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Since it's just another boring Saturday, with no Guest Blogger lined up, I'm reheating some old leftovers and bringing back my very first ever Mr. Teacher column on education.com! This was back in October of 2007, and it addresses an issue that every
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Just a few links for today: This week's Mr Teacher column over at education.com is titled, " A Few of My Favorite Things ." It is a short list (Top 5) of things that make me happy to be a teacher. We tend to complain about the bad kids and the frustrations,
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The month of Guest Posts here at Learn Me Good is going well so far, but if you have been lurking, reading the posts of others, and thinking to yourself, "I wish I could write something for Mister Teacher..." Well, stop talking to yourself, and start
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Last Friday, I stayed late, too late, at school, grading papers. Part of the reason for that was that I took up my students' journals to grade something they had written within, and I didn't want to take all the journals home over the weekend. Another
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A while back, I sent a copy of Learn Me Good to NovelCritic , a website which reviews books, as the name would imply. A few nights ago, I got an email saying that the review was up and available. I checked it out and was very pleased with what I found!
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For my Guest Posting Initiative run, I have been putting up the post in the evening before the day I scheduled it to run. If I don't do this, then I won't be physically able to post it on the day I scheduled until I get home from school, which is usually
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I hope everyone is having a happy weekend, and that the return to school did not fry too many brains out there! Since it's Saturday, kind of a lazy day, my Guest Poster for today is none other than -- ME! In my Mr. Teacher of education.com guise! I have
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I feel just about ready for another 2 week break! OK, so it's not because of the kids -- although after two great days back, today was a major headache day as my room was hot and stuffy, and the kids didn't seem to have their minds in problem solving
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Next in the long line of January Guest Bloggers here on Learn Me Good, we have Carolyn, who writes Give Me Texas Wisdom . Carolyn is a substitute teacher, slightly lower even on the respect totem pole than full-time teachers, so God bless her. She writes
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Does anybody remember that old Sesame Street skit where a clueless Grover would be at a restaraunt, and the waiter would ask for his order, whereupon Grover would say, "I'll have a cheeseburger and a coke!" When the waiter informed Grover that they didn't
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Today is the first day of school after winter break for us folk here in the Dallas ISD, and I can only hope the kids come back more energized than I was yesterday at the staff development! Today, I have the second in a long (hopefully getting longer)
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Yesterday, January 3rd, it was 80 degrees here. My brother and I took his two boys out to the park, where people were in t-shirts and shorts. Now I know that's not normal for January, but I find myself wondering why it can't last, especially since the
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I have a very special treat for everyone today. No, it's not your own Toyota Camry -- who do you think I am, Oprah Winfrey? Rather, I am pleased to present the very first Guest Blogger on Learn Me Good, well, EVER, I think! But certainly in January of
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Hello everyone, and welcome to a brand new year! Yes, I realize it is almost 3:oo PM as I am writing this, and yes I realize I still have a major case of bedhead. What do you expect, I just got up! But seeing as how I didn't go to sleep until close to
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