Musing Mama K

Today's Zinger: In a conversation with two students who are Baltimore Ravens fans, one of them pronounced Haloti Ngata's last name w...

Today's Zingers: I asked some teacher buddies to contribute to the blog today, and I got these responses from friends Christina and Ly...

Today I tried out an activity created by Effie Cannon. I gave each student a piece of paper with several parts of speech listed vertically. ...

Today's Zinger: My Creative Writing/Biology combination class is working on a research paper on stem cells. One girl wrote in her draft...

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: "...