December 2008
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Kathryn’s Reindeer Army
Posted by Kathryn on 27th December in
OK, maybe not. My Christmas tradition is to give candy canes to all of my students. The kids love them. And as hard as I try to keep them from eating them before taking them home, I usually fail. I jokingly remarked that it would be fun to make them into reindeer this year. One [...]
How much?
Posted by Kathryn on 24th December in
As a math activity, I had C1 attempt to figure out how much all the gifts from the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” would cost. I found current prices (pdf) for each on the web. Seriously, what isn’t on the web these days? I then made an Excel file to help the kids calculate [...]
Eric’s Commercial
Posted by Kathryn on 14th December in
The C1 Speaking and Writing class has been reading James and the Giant Peach with me for the last few months. I’ve decided to take it slow and do a whole lot of fun stuff with it. I’ll outline those activities in another post. In our last couple of classes we’ve been doing advertisements to [...]
Coming Attractions
Posted by Kathryn on 12th December in
I’ve somewhat lax in keeping my blog updated. I do have stuff to post. I’ve just been insanely busy. So here’s a sneak peek. Birthday Friday photos Food pyramid poster Holiday photos James and the Giant Peach Activities Random student photos And probably more stuff that I can’t think of off the top of my [...]
The Little Things
Posted by Kathryn on 6th December in
I have a few of my classes turn in journals each week. I give them an easy topic to write on, for example, “My favorite food” or “All about me”. They have to write about five sentences. For some of the kids, it’s a real challenge. Others write me a mini novel each week. I [...]
