Charlie Chaplin and Modern Times

My family recently chuckled its way through Charlie Chaplin’s last silent film, and one of his best, “Modern Times.”  One scene near the beginning has our hero at work in a modern factory, with some sort of “widgets” sailing by him on a conveyor belt.  His job is to tighten two bolts as they go [...]

Standing on Giants

Read the following recently on “The Endeavor” blog and because I have used Newton’s quote so much, just had to post it here:
Isaac Newton famously said
If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
Later Mathematician R. W. Hamming added
Mathematicians stand on each other’s shoulders while computer [...]

Good Morning Young Grasshopper(s)

The headmaster was enjoying the quiet of the post-first-thing-in-the-morning-rush.  It was Friday.  The flowers were in bloom.  The storm had been replaced with beautiful sunshine.  He leaned back in his desk chair and sighed.  And noticed a nice green decent-sized grasshopper on his wall.  He asked a dad out in the main office if his [...]

Grade 1 Two

This blog will suffer for being put off for too many days. I spent the day in a First Grade classroom again on Oct. 24, 2007 and have not blogged until now. But I did have some notes to work off of. It will be short and disjointed, though the day was [...]

A Whole Day the First Grade Way

Yep. Believe it or not, I graduated up to First Grade this week. 7:40am till 3pm is a haul, follks. I was tired when I was done. Truly some uncollected thoughts, but let me jump right in.
Order is such a wonderful gift to children. From the moment I entered this [...]

Becoming Flabbergasted

It was a Sixth grade that met right after lunch recess. They usually had a lot of energy (what 6th gr class does not?) and were easily engaged, until about the last five minutes of class or so when their batteries started to wane. One young man loved to learn new words, but [...]

Satirical Think Tank

Had this shared with me by one of my faculty. Loved it. Want to keep the satire going…
Why I Joined Thinker’s Anonymous