Fifth Grade Flies By

I enjoyed my day in Fifth Grade, but had to be called out a few times to be a headmaster, so it was not perfect.
Certainly by now I am seeing that I really have to be in the class to pass the class. I did poorly on most of the tests taken during this [...]

Fourth Grade on Parade

This is that really busy time of year, so my comments after spending a day in 4th grade are once again in bullet form.
A. It was true of Third grade as well, but even more so here in Fourth: I have taught this age, so it does not seem as strange to me. I [...]

Are Third Graders Real?

What kind of a question is that? Of course they are real. All we have to squabble over is the form of their reality. If you can teach Third grade, you can teach anything. Here are some observations that support that premise.
A. When they don’t know the answer to a question of [...]

So What is a Second Grader Like?

I think with the “behindedness” that I am experiencing these days, I should go to a form of writing I don’t like but that is much quicker for me. I will bullet out my thoughts from my Day in the Life of a 2nd grade class.
A. Even at second grade, I am finding the [...]

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 [...]

Back in the K again

A second time through the rigors of kindergarten instruction. The teacher is smiling at the door and doing well. She has a seat set aside for me! Again, coming in and sitting down I am taken by the fact that K kids love a task. We are connecting letters of the alphabet [...]

A Day in K

There is a certain atomic type of energy in a kindergarten classroom. I noticed it the very first time I ever entered such a room back when I was a lowly rookie teacher. By atomic I literally mean that each student is an atom that is seeking to move, to evidence Brownian motion, [...]

A Day in the Life (with apologies to the Fab Four)

I am trying new things all the time. I love new ideas. I especially love to try things that seem a little out of the box because I love to see things from new angles. All that to explain why I would possibly wish to spend a whole day acting like a [...]