Posts for August, 2009


Perfect Paragraph Moderation

August 31st, 2009

Directions: Write a paragraph with 6-8 sentences using these quotes. Which one do you most agree with? Why? Cite at least one of the quotes in your answer. “He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.” – Horace (Roman poet) “Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds [...]

Teacher Throws Eraser at Student

August 17th, 2009

The tagline on this blog is “Daily Teaching Ideas.” Well this video is NOT a recommended daily teaching idea, but it is funny. The teacher in the video overlooks the misbehaving student for a time then the eraser flies.

How Not to Use Powerpoint

August 12th, 2009

Here is a humorous look at what not to do when creating a Powerpoint project. I first saw this post on Carla Beard’s blog.

Complete Sentences Exercise

August 11th, 2009

A sentence must have a subject (the doer) and a verb (the action). Without both, the sentence does not express a complete thought, and it is a sentence fragment. Identify each as fragment or complete. The mouse in the corner. The last thing I had to do. Angel read last night. Over the hills and [...]

Amazing Facts or If Not at Least They’re Funny

August 5th, 2009

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.)  The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.  A cockroach will live nine days without its head before [...]