Confessions of a

Modern Day [ex]

Substitute Teacher

I saw this in a classroom a little while ago and I thought it looked like a fun way to teach math and art together (if you happen...

It was a busy week at school.  Temperatures dropped below -30 and the flu is still running rampart (I would say on average there are about ...

Another busy week at school! For some reason one of the schools I was at this week still had an indoor recess (I'm quite sure that...

I've seen this in a few classrooms now but this is the first time I've actually seen this spinner used for something. App...

Well this is it folks, yesterday marked the last day of school before Christmas break and I had the day off (which I expected).  I'm ba...

… is the new cell phone. As a way of getting around talking about cell phones in a grade 8 class I was recently in students started to refer...

While doing my little stint in grade 8 the last couple of weeks I've been attending the meetings the teacher I'm in for would normal...

I saw this in a classroom nearly a year ago (and I've been saving it for a more appropriate time to put up on the blog)... to be fair I...

Another full week teaching grade 8.  It was mostly just a continuation of everything we were doing last week.   In math we were tal...

My home away from home for the last week I’ve been lucky enough to be in the same classroom all this week  (and spoiler alert: I’...

Another week in Mrs. B's grade 7 ELA class... We had our first TUSC meeting.  When the chairperson asked who wasn't prepared about...

Despite not feeling the greatest all weekend I managed to pull it together enough to work every single day leading up to spring break! ...

A couple of weeks ago I posted this picture: Math - groups of saying that it had something to do with math... Well, the stude...

Well the 2018 Winter Olympics have come and gone and I'm getting this post up just a pinch too late. Confession:  I'll often sp...

Not sure when exactly this is happening (I imagine it's different depending on where you live) but I know here in Manitoba it's com...

It's likely not breaking news or anything but teacher's here are still steadily getting ill or going to meetings as I continue to b...

The first week back from winter break this year I was in for a grade 4 teacher the entire week. I had already assumed that there likely was...

What I once again expected would have been a slower week back to work (what with it being the first week back for students and all) was act...

Busy week this week out and about! Monday I was a grade 2 teacher.  We wrote letters to Santa, read some Flat Stanley, and made community...

This week at school... It was a busy week! Monday I taught grade 2 where we learned what numbers added up to be 10, listened to Ch...