Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day


I made an amazing discovery this Valentine's Day. According to one of my students I'm "The best teacher in the whole world." And since she put it in writing, it must be true. So all of you other teachers out there - watch out! Happy Day to those of you who celebrate this made up holiday.

Monday, February 11, 2008

I'm Lazy










It's nice to have student work up on the walls of a classroom. Parents love to see it, kids love to have it there, it looks good. But it's a pain in the you-know-what to keep changing it out. So after working through the possibilities I came up with a system. It might seem a little elaborate, but I anticipate it saving me lots of time. I could have given the kids a few push pins and told them to pin up their work. But knowing fifth grade boys there would have been push pin wars. So this is what I came up with. The little yellow buttons are magnets glued to thumbtacks and then spray painted because they look cuter in yellow. The kids put paper clips on their papers and the magnets hold them to the board. They can change out their work whenever they want. Lazy is good.