Lesson One – Mythbusters Fund There is nothing quite like movie day in school…but if your anything like me you tend to shy away from the library collection of films because, let’s be honest, most educational science films are boring. In my science classes we solve this solution by watching Mythbusters and this past week…

Lesson One – Questionable Camera Usage As stated before, earlier this week we held our annual world language festival here at Woodland Jr. High. For this event I leased my camera out to one of my students (Lafayette) so that he could capture all the action that was the world language festival. The following day,…

Lesson One – Dress Your Age Ahhhh…Finally Friday! It’s been a long week here in Fayetteville, but we have learned some valuable lessons this week so let’s get to it. Recently I shopping and purchased a new pair of shoes. This pair of shoes seemed fairly harmless at the time of purchase but little did…

Lesson One – Test Week This week has been a very slow week for us in regards to blogging, and the reason is that it is test week for both of my Arkansas history and science students. Meaning that we have spent a lot of time reviewing and preparing for our test…things should be back…

Lesson One – Snow, Snow, and More Snow While they are receiving record snow fall on the east coast, we hear in the natural state are feeling the effects of all this winter weather. We started out this week by taking yet another snow day as many states around the country continue to get dumped…

Lesson One – Groundhog Day Well it’s official…Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and according to folklore we are in for 6 more long weeks of winter. Yay! Earlier this week Phil, the groundhog, saw his shadow and by some weird turn of fate this fat groundhog in Pennsylvania has determined that we are not quite…

Lesson One – It’s Snowing In The Mid-West You may be wondering why my lessons learned are being posted on Monday and not Friday as usual. Well I’ve been a little preoccupied…as you can see from the blurry picture above. With snow totals in Northwest Arkansas reaching anywhere from 5″ – 8″, we have not…

Lesson One – Old Friends This past Tuesday our class blog received a slew of hits from some familiar faces. The hits I was receiving were from many of my former students from Noel, Missouri. They were visiting as apart of a #comments4kids assignment given to them by their teacher Mr. C. It was great…

Lesson One – Show Me Your Grill This is my third year of teaching middle level students, and one thing that I have noticed is that as I work with younger students I tend to inherit the behaviors that they display…which would explain my often immature behavior. More recently I have found that I’m not…

Lesson One: – 10 This morning I wake up to probably the coldest weather I have ever experienced….-10 wind chill. I realize that about 85% of the United States are in the middle of this arctic chill that we are experiencing right now in Arkansas but I don’t think I can handle much more. Lesson…