A student needed prompting to explain his choice of colours for an Art assignment.
I made the mistake of switching from fairly monotone communication to 🎶 “Tell me Wwhhyyyy!”
Before this Grade 5 could give an answer, the whole class replies, “Ain’t nothin’ but a heeaart ache!”
As a prep teacher, I have reached the point where I apparently have 16 names, according to how my students address me:
- “Ms. Venn.”
- “Teacher.”
- One of the 13 classroom teacher names.
- “Mom.”
Post a picture of some landscape from a place where you've been, where the main requirement is that you NOT appear in it. Just a picture, no description.
Lets travel virtually around the world.
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While prepping one of my students for a spelling test today, we had a moment of joy:
I learned that a great way to motivate a kid to write lowercase “p”s (when needed) is to lightly write “poo” on the margins of their practice page if they use a capital P.
The power of humour.
Man, these textbooks are really out of date. It’s been, what, ~200 million years since North America and Africa were part of the same supercontinent? 😂
Working with kids, I have yet to see a drag queen cause trauma to a child.
I can’t say the same about kids whose fathers commit spousal abuse.
Perhaps story time with drag queens is one of the many ways to confront toxic masculinity.
After a protest at the Coquitlam Library over “drag queen story time” - @ConniSmudge tells #SteeleandVance - “It’s hard to hate up close.” Amen. 8pm @CHEK_media @jodyvance
Elementary teaching means interrupting your lesson on colonialism to privately talk about “healthy choices” to the Primary student who just grabbed a long hair off the carpet and put it in their mouth.
🙃
It currently hurts on my right side to laugh/cough. Clearly my efforts to boost morale by joining yesterday’s Grade 7 dodgeball face-off should have been preceded by a decent stretch session.
#GottaHitTheGym
I’m a Teacher On Call in Canada. Today, I had an Intermediate student ask what I thought about her idea for a barrier to hide and protect everyone in a classroom during a school shooting.
Kids should not feel unsafe in their schools, nor a need to have these conversations.
Teaching Lesson Learned, #762:
If you offer to seal Primary kids’ oil pastel art with hairspray, they are quite motivated to invest in their work. (Whether it’s the indication of teacher investment in their work or just the aroma of the spray outside the class, it works well!)
One hell of a Monday:
- Catalytic converter stolen again (Cost=$300+ & 2 weeks+ for repairs).
- TOCing for a class that was *not* on their best behaviour.
- Coffee lid broke…trashing some teaching supplies.
As Garfield might agree, I’m owed one awesome lasagna.
Some delightful gents surprised me with the removal of my car’s 12yo catalytic converter. I’m all for updates in the name of efficiency, but I just wish they left behind more than 30¢ on the pavement, seeing as it’ll cost me at least $300 to replace the part.
Hailey Venn 🚮🚛🌄 retweeted
First grade is wild. You’re learning how to be a human, how to write things down, how to manage friendships and follow rules, and all the while everybody’s teeth are falling out all over the place
To the driver this evening who was occupying ≈ 3 feet of the oncoming lane, I’m sure my Kindergarten students will happy to share their colouring books. I hear they are a great way to learn how to stay between the lines.
