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Kathryn’s Reindeer Army

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 [...]

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How much?

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 [...]

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Eric’s Commercial

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 [...]

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