Learn Me Good
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Learn Me Good, is the story of Jack Woodson, a former design engineer, turned green-behind-the-ears new teacher. As a first year 3rd grade math teacher at a public school in Dallas, Jack experiences a baptism of fire, as his kids do, say, and ARE the craziest things!
As a teacher, Jack faces new challenges. Conference calls have been replaced with parent conferences. Product testing has given way to standardized testing. Instead of business cards, Jack now passes out report cards. The only thing that hasn't changed noticeably is the maturity level of the people surrounding him all day.
Learn Me Good is a hilarious first-person account, inspired by real life experiences. Through a series of emails to Fred Bommerson, his buddy who still works at Heat Pumps Unlimited, Jack chronicles a year-in-the-life of a brand new teacher. With subject lines such as "Irritable Vowel Syndrome," "In math class, no one can hear you scream," and "I love the smell of Lysol in the morning," Jack writes each email with a dash of sarcasm and plenty of irreverent wit.
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- THIS is easy??
Yesterday, I began to teach the kids how to do a 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication problem. I began by writing 43X32 on the board and asking the kids to just try to answer it. The ONE kid who got it right and knew how to do this kind of problem already was the girl who didn't know how old she was, who told me that 5 + 3 was "so very hard," and who often forgets things over a long weekend. Go figure.Read all about Jack Woodson and his first year as a teacher in Learn Me Good, available at Amazon.com! Now available on Kindle, Nook, and ipad!
- A little experiment
When kids come running down the hall and I shout, "STOP RUNNING!" it has just about zero effect on them. So I'm thinking about seeing how they react to something totally random, like, "NO SMOKING!!" or, "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!" The sheer confusion alone should stop them in their tracks.Read all about Jack Woodson and his first year as a teacher in Learn Me Good, available at Amazon.com! Now available on Kindle, Nook, and ipad!
- Non Sequitors
My day was pretty lively today. Here were a few bullet points... I have a set of liquid measurement containers that fit into one another much like Russian nesting dolls. Today, as I was pulling them out one at a time, much to the amazement of my kids, I kept hearing one of them say, "You gotta be kidding me." Cracked me up!! This was how my statement was intended to go: "When we get back from specials, I'm going to introduce you to Gallon Man." Instead, I got as far as, "I'm going to introduce you to..." when I was interrupted by a boy saying, "Mr. Snowflakes!" I had a sub for the last hour of class today. I asked her to have the kids take a big piece of paper, create their own word problem, solve it, and illustrate it. I even drew an example of what it would look like. Just got back to my classroom, and I have 10 products that all have exactly the same word problem--my example problem. Aaarrrgghh! Read all about Jack Woodson and his first year as a teacher in Learn Me Good, available at Amazon.com! Now available on Kindle, Nook, and ipad!
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