After a lengthy break I will finally be returning to my full teaching load on Monday. For the past 6 weeks we have been fortunate enough to host Ms. Simonek as she completes her student teaching rotations; however, she wrapped up her first rotation in my classroom on Saturday and will now be moving on…

Coleman and Connor get their Spanish infomercial on…excuse the sound being off. Yesterday marked our annual World Language Festival here at Woodland Jr. High. Each year our foreign language classes (French, Spanish, and German) put on a huge event in which the students present their projects that created. Their projects reflect an aspect of the…

Lesson One – Teaching is Exhausting For the past 5 weeks I have been fortunate enough to work with Ms. Simonek…Ms. Simonek is my intern and has essentially taken my class over the past few weeks. This means I spend a lot of time hanging out in various rooms throughout the school working on my…

After a grueling 4 day stay in sunny Orlando I’m finally back at school today for the first time in nearly two weeks. I went to Orlando to attend the National Conference on Bullying; this conference attracted over 400 individuals from the education and law enforcement communities. Since I did attend this national conference as…

As if the huge snow break we had wasn’t enough, I’m going to be out of for the first part of this week. I will be in Orlando, FL until Thursday this week. Mr. McClung

What started out as a possible 2-4 inches of snow this week quickly turned into two feet…only off by 18 inches, not too bad. Needless to say this put us out of school for three straight days and left many of us indoors. But not this guy…enjoy the on board view of my sledding adventures….

That’s right…more snow. We will be out of school today and probably a few other days this week as well. Enjoy your snow day everyone. Mr. McClung

The massive winter storm system that everyone has been talking about has finally touched down here in Northwest Arkansas. With our area receiving heavy amounts of rain, ice, snow, and even thundersnow, it’s safe to say not only will we not be in school today but it might be a few days until we return…

Somewhere underneath all that blue stuff, is a very cold and snow covered Fayetteville, Arkansas. Due to snow and ice, Fayetteville schools will be closed Thursday. So since we now have a surprise snow day, I recommend getting outside and enjoying the pretty snow while we still have it. Mr. McClung