The winter break has been long for me this year because I have mainly sat at home majority of the holiday break. Outside of the occasional video game playing and jogging to keep the Christmas fat off, I really haven’t had much to do. I figured with all this spare time on my hands this…
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Lesson One – Finals Week Today is the official start of finals week for us here at Woodland, which means that this semester is mercifully coming to an end. From now until next Wednesday students will be doing all the last minute cramming they can before their finals and then they get some down time…
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Lesson One – Christmas Shopping This is usually the time of year when I start to become very stressed out. I hate shopping, and specifically I hate shopping for my wife. I rarely get it right and I spend a lot of time picking out that item. Today in class I’m going to so something…
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Lesson One – The Puppy Was a Dog Yesterday I shared my students one of my favorite movie clips from Billy Madison. It was the clip where Billy rambles on about the industrial revolution and how it was similar to a story called “The Puppy That Lost His Way”. At some point during the clip…
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Lesson One – The Brownie Project For over a month now, my AVID students have been working on a top secret project that was finally executed today. Students went door to door in our school thanking each member of our staff for all that they do for our school and greeting them with a cup…
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Lesson One – No One Cares About Your Killstreak With the release of Modern Warfare 3 this week, the boys in my class have been fixated on playing the game all week long. While I am myself someone who enjoys playing games like MW3, I do have to say that I don’t like the conversations…
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Lesson One – Stay Here As Long As You Can… Being a grownup is not very fun. This week has been a little bit trying for me, as a person who tries his best to impersonate a grownup, as I have recently had issues in my personal life…not major, just stressful. I would like to…
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Lesson One – Don’t Let Your Babies… This entire week has been our spirit week at school as we prepare to play our cross town rival Ramay Jr. High. Students this week have been dressing up in all kinds of ridiculous outfits to show their Woodland Cowboy pride…just like Thursday, which was cowboy day. Lesson…
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Lesson One – Beard Me This week we started our annual fundraiser for the United Way. In the past we have raised money for this organization by having teacher competitions; one year we had a sexy legs contest followed the next year by a flex off. This year, we have the beard off. Teachers volunteered…
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Lesson One – More Cowbell It’s time for the Chile Pepper, ladies and gentlemen. The Chile Pepper Festival is an annual event held in Fayetteville that includes a fun day of cross country running. It starts in the morning with an open 10k run and continues with races for college, high school, and jr. high…
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