Little Susie Door Results

I shared previously about the school door decorating project.  I had to veto ideas such as raining leprechauns, Modern Warfare Santa Clauses, and Little Susie’s assassination of the Grinch.  With ailing backs and aching hands, my boys threw themselves into an artistic endeavor comparable to the Sistine Chapel.  They even walked away quoting Michelangelo, “The [...]

How Little Susie Saved Christmas

I advise a group of ten boys every day for twenty minutes.  That alone should have elicited some sort of gasp of impossibility.  For the Christmas season, we’ve been given the responsibility of decorating my classroom door.  Try casting vision to twelve year old testosterone for Christmas scrapbooking.  Then substitute for the scrapbook a public [...]

Relationship is Central

I drove down my street one afternoon this week and sure enough, there they were.  My nephews, Caleb and Isaiah, zipped up and down driveways on their shiny, silver scooters.  I rolled down the window to greet them, “What’s going on, guys?” “Hey Luke!” Caleb said as he whipped past me and manually motored down [...]

Once in a Zay Moon

I continued to ask him what he’d done in kindergarten as he followed me around the house. “Why does everyone keep asking me that?” exclaimed Isaiah. We keep waiting for the day when the principal will award him with the key to the school, a mere token act acknowledging his role as the Godfather there. [...]

Isaiah, My Knight in Shining Armor

Thursday I took Isaiah and the twins to the library for a change of scenery.  During our stay, I followed Summer and chased Isaiah who chased Maren and entertained plenty of pleadings to check out this and that.  Somehow four year-old Isaiah’s initial desire for Curious George took a backseat to the undiscovered world of [...]

When in Rome

You can’t be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he’ll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by. – Frederick Buechner Hello.  It’s been awhile since I’ve posted.  Once mid-February hits, my life becomes baseball.  Two toddling twins keep me quite busy as well.  [...]

Judge by the Cover

My creative writing assignment in class today said this: Your life has been turned into a book.  Write the back cover that will attract readers at Barnes and Noble. The answer of the day came from a student that’s somehow been dubbed my teaching assistant: You are about to be blown away.  This is an [...]

Straight From a Movie Critic

I begin every class with background music from a selected soundtrack.  Music captures the power of a story and allows us to relive it long after the credits roll.  On my morning drive, the Broadway recording of Wicked continues to arrest my soul to a captivity of wonderment.  I hope my students depart class with [...]

I Am Boy

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Carolina

You first had the chance to meet Chip and Wes here. On another certain day, the dynamic 6th grade duo sat comfortably in math, letting the additions and subtractions float over their heads, off the walls, and then through the door down the hallway.  The instructor, a College of Charleston grad, marked up the dry-erase [...]