As we continue to discuss the all the “stuff” that is in my classroom, today we will review the classroom library. The classroom library consist of a bookshelf full of various books and magazines available to my students for check out as well as a bean bag and stoles for sitting around and reading…or just…

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Pictures of my classroom the day before the start of school. Here I am on yet another new school year eve and I can’t go to sleep because I have too many things running through my mind. It’s actually kinda like that feeling you get when your a kid right before school starts…you’re nervous and…

With less than two weeks left until we start another school year, it’s time for me to start giving the ole’ class blog a little jump start to get ready for the new school year…and what better way to do so than to talk about change. While I will be staying put at Woodland for…

Taken from one of my Arkansas History student’s end of the year survey. Adapt This year held many first for me. It was my first year to teach jr. high students, it was my first time to teach social studies and history, it was my first time to work in a large school district, and…

This past week our classblog was featured by a familiar website on a weekly newsletter and on their Facebook page. Edublogs.org was kind enough to feature on blog on their Facebook page that highlighted our use of header and then they made us their featured blog of the week on their newsletter. This feature meant…

My first hour students helping me take down my bulletin boards. This is it, today is officially our last day of school here at Woodland Jr. High for the 09-10 school year…and of course I have a few things to say before I start to set sail for the summer break. First of all I…

Before (August ’09) and after (June ’10) shots of our blog wall. As we begin to say our goodbyes for the year, I felt it would be appropriate to highlight a view features of our classroom that have grown as we have progressed throughout the school year. First up is our blog wall…this wall was…

Above is one of the videos from the acceptance speeches that were given after The McClungs Ceremony last Friday. Here is Mason sharing his “fond memory” after he won the award for “Most Time Spent Hating on Mr. McClung Award”. Enjoy. Mr. McClung

This week while listening to an episode of This American Life, my favorite podcast, and stumbled upon a story that was so great that I felt like I needed to share it on my own blog. The story is about a four mile long bridge in Naan-jing China, which is famous for how many people…