Musing Mama K

Today's Zingers:  I've been working on conciseness with all of my classes recently, and I had one group take a sentence from one o...

Today's Zingers: Another bonus day! You get three student funnies for the price of none! 1. (Out of context, this one's funny.) ...

Today's (Overheard) Zinger: Student A: "How do you spell assassination?" Student B: "Oh! I know this! Double ass-i-nati...

Today's Zingers: On the way to school today, I realized that this year's freshmen would likely be my first group to have no memory o...

Today's Zinger: Bonus day! You get two! Four students were using my room during lunch to plan a group project for another class. I over...

Today's Zinger: I teach an integrated Biology/Creative Writing class, and a student wrote this line on a review bellringer today: "...

Today's Zinger: "Brenda went home early. She has a migration." Today's Tip: My first year teaching, someone gave me a ...

Today's Zinger: Here's a question I got yesterday: "Mrs. Kratzer, Carla just called me a prostitute. That's a male dog, ri...

Today's Zinger: One of my witty male students in AP English was trying on a classmate's bracelet. He quipped, "I love to acces...

I am very happy to announce that this 20-year "Mama K" who has mothered so many teenagers is now Mama to Samuel Myles Kratzer, o...