Lesson One -World Cup Soccer With the World Cup fast approaching, students in my school have started to show their true allegiances. My first period class has quickly become a battle ground for soccer as myself and two other students root for our respective countries. Of course I pull for the United States, Harvey (pictured…

Lesson One -I’m So Done With Politics The old folks have spoken… This past Tuesday marked the date of the Primary Election around our nation…which can only mean one thing, the bombardment of political commercials every time that i watch local television. Here in Arkansas we have been in an intense spitting context between Blanche…

Lesson One – Student Choice Each week I come up with three lessons learned in great education to serve as talking points to close out our week at school…however though, some weeks are harder than others…kinda like this week. So what I decided to do was rely on my students to complete lesson one this…

Lesson One – Adopt a Species Our favorite Spanish teacher has decided to jump on board with the recent fundraising frenzy. Mrs. Barron and her Spanish II have been reading a story that takes place in the jungles of South America, in this story there are many animals that her students were not familiar with….

Lesson One – I’m an Average Teacher Those of you that frequent our class blog probably realize by now that I’m a huge advocate of reflection and using reflection as a tool of learning in the classroom. This week I assigned my students a blog post that required them to reflect back on our school…

Lección Uno -New Digs This week was a big week for us here in my classroom in more ways than just one. All the excitement over our fundraiser has overshadowed a couple of new additions to our classroom. This week we received a new document camera and a new to us Interwrite board. Both of…

Lesson One – Testing Week We did it…benchmark testing is finally over. For those not aware, 8th graders all over Arkansas have been immersed in standardized testing with our yearly ACTAAP testing. We have spent at least 3 hours a day for the past four days taking reading, writing, and math test. While the effect…

Lesson One – The Jersey Wall Anyone that visits my classroom will tell you that I have nothing of educational value on my walls…instead I decorate my room as if it was my on personal playroom and I was ten years old. I cover my wall with flags, pictures, posters, and of course jerseys. Some…

Lesson One – Genwi = Terrible Service Those of you that follow our blog regularly will remember that nearly a month ago I announced that our class blog would have a app for iPod and iPhone that would be available soon. Well…here we are one month later and still no app. Throughout this time period…

Lesson One – Baking Brownies This week at Woodland, many of my students were very busy putting together their “brownie project” that they were preparing for their career orientation and keyboarding classes. In these projects students learned how to market and sell brownies by creating their own line of brownies and selling them to teachers…