Knock, Knock.

One of my kids reading a knock, knock joke book, and he wanted to share a joke with me today. It was hilarious, but not in the way you would think.

"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"
"Jack."
"Jack, who?"
"Also included inside are 100s of other classic knock-knock jokes that will have you rolling on the floor laughing. Take a look inside to see!"

Yes, he was reading the teaser on the back cover, thinking it was a joke. Kids are fun.

 

 

Chills for Life.

The "cooties" of the 21st century are apparently called "chills." Today I got really annoyed with my students during an upbeat probability activity. They were working pretty well in groups, but they kept running back and forth during the stations to poke each other and yell, "Chills for life!" I let it go during the activity because everyone was doing the work they were supposed to be doing, but while I was going over something whole class, one of my kids got up and walked across the room to pass on the chills.

I kind of got mad, and my brilliant solution was to tell them that I didn't want to hear about chills in class ever again. In fact, I sacrificed myself and took the chills, and they'd all better stay away from me or else they'll catch it. The word didn't come up the rest of the day.

Watch out. I've got chills for life.

Welcome Back.

Had a very happy Thanksgiving back in California. There is a new countdown now for winter break.

The students took a Benchmark exam a couple weeks ago. It's a district-wide test on all the objectives that we were supposed to have done 1st quarter. I got the results back today, and my students actually performed worse after my instruction than they did coming off of summer vacation.

Welcome back, indeed.