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Four of my students took charge of the library problem in my classroom today when my kids purged their desks of everything. Over 50 books were missing and they were not happy. They took charge of the situation and helped me make a list of what books were missing and what books didn’t [...]

Today might be one of a handful of times I will ever teaching Writing Workshop after lunch when my kids come back from dance. (I LOVE teaching writing in the morning. When I was in NYC, my principal gave me special permission to do this since we were supposed to teach it in the [...]

Here’s what I’m working on now… Originally uploaded by teachergal Last year one of my fifth graders, Lauren, wrote a persuasive letter to a very large yearbook company’s CEO asking him to give our class yearbooks. She successfully persuaded him to discount the price of a full-color yearbook for the entire class (the kids paid $15 [...]

The art of a thank you note… Miss Annechini, my sixth grade teacher, taught us how to write “Bread and Butter Notes,” which has stuck with me for years. However, for years before that, my parents always told me I had to thank someone when they gave me something. In recent years, I’ve come to [...]

“We found it! We found it! Talitha-chan is so smart! This one finally has the kitties!”

“Jessica’s right. This one has a kitty in it.”

“Ha! And a Night-Elf-Mo-Hawk!”

“Shutup fool!”

*giggle*

“But you said there was one where some girl warrior turned into a kitty.”

“Hmm?”

“No comment.”

“heheheeeeee….”

“There. It’s from the game with the kitties.”

“But there’s no kitties in it.”

“There’s a dragon! I saw them flying!”

“And horses.”

“And uhhh… undead spiders and a dwarf.”

“But where are the kitties?”

“You laughed at me when I predicted this.”

“heheheeeeee….”

“Z-bot to Hana. This is a Gamepowa Video Alert. Transmitting now.”

“Outstanding, Z-bot. Continue search. Acey out.”

“Ooh, is that the one that turns into a kitty?”

“Not sure but he sure likes to zap giants with that lightning, huh?”

“Talitha-chan, let’s go find the one that turns into a kitty.”

“Okay.”

“And so the duel of the video alerts begins.”

“Why do I get the feeling this is going to end in mass confusion?”

“Ha! Because everything we do is mass confusion!”

“Well, yeah, that too.”

“What have you got for us, Space Girl?”

“Well, you folks did a guest article, so we got right to work and decided to get one of our own. We did a little instructional article on How to Succeed as a Casual Player in World of Warcraft.”

“I’m gonna make a druid!”

“What’s a druid?”

“It’s the best player in the game! In the video Acey-san has she runs through this forest with little leaves falling all around and she gets to turn into a kitty! I want to do that too so my character is gonna be druid! I’ve always wanted to turn into a big kitty and run fast.”

“Ooh! Do they got one that can be a dragon? I want to be a dragon so I can breathe fire everywhere and be super strong!”

“Okay we’re rapidly spinning off into goofy land so we’ll say goodnight from the land of kitties and dragons!”

“Catch you all at the Powa! Hana out.”