Slice of Class Sprinkled with Crazy

And then Sir Talks-a-lot used his tongue to measure his desk. (It measured 9 tongue lengths long.)

I am the kind of teacher that confiscates things. Fidget spinner that I can see or hear? Confiscated. Reading when you should be listening ...

Things I collected today: 1 six-limbed fidget spinner 5 magnets of varying sizes, all round Minutes of silence: 6 1 half finished comic styl...

Teaching is "Here, Miss Maddox, I made this for you. It's Catwoman." "Thank you, [name of small child who has spent w...

Today I had a breakthrough. Normally, breakthroughs are not things that are needed in the first full week of teaching. Normally, breakth...

There's a scene in a Toy Story movie where a toy tells Jessie, "Jessie! Remember your training!" To which she replies, "...

Yesterday in the middle of my fabulous lesson on the Constitution (read: students were paying attention, participating, and learning about h...