a day in the life of a northern wisconsin gal

it seems like yesterday that i just started teaching in the classroom and yet at the same time it seems as if it's been a long long time...

i thought i'd do something different today besides a lab. the lesson today was a combo of history and science. the students were stud...

yes...another day of yeast. the lab was a full class period today. the students were to study the affects of temperature and yeast. durin...

yeast...i think it's a fun word to say...yeast...yeeeeassst...don't mind me. today was the fermentation lab. the students were giv...

well...this is the beginning of the last week of student teaching. i'm looking forward to my teaching coming to an end...but it's v...

today was the introduction of kingdom protista. mrs. s stated that one of the nice things of having a student teacher in the classroom was...

day two of the testing and day two of the lab. only had two classes today due to the modified schedule. i can’t think of anything that w...

the students had state testing in math and language arts today. the schedule is all goofed up for today and tomorrow. the testing starte...

today we had a morning program planned for veteran’s day. we left right after homeroom and headed on down to the gymnasium. the 7 th an...

we were supposed to have a guest speaker today and moments before the beginning of 1st period, the speaker came to the classroom and told us...

the students worked on two things today...they finished the lab started on tuesday and continued to work on the food/bacteria/culture lab in...

today was all about food, certain preservation techniques, and the role of culture in the making/preserving of the food...AND the role of ba...

it's bacteria week this week. the lesson today was about germs invading foods and methods to help prevent bacteria growth. the student...

there wasn't any school today...for the students. instead, it was another professional development day. not much to say today.

today we had a modified class schedule due to halloween. the students are attending a social from 2 - 4 p.m. so we shaved off a little time...

today we watched a video on the ebola virus. i had prepared a handout for students to answer questions while they watched the movie. it wa...

the students had their presentations today. the first two classes were with ms. b and most of the students read off of their notes...a few ...

the second day of this 3 day activity was computer work. the students were directed to pick a virus...i always tell them the bloodier the b...

the activity today was about viruses. i find it funny, not really, that after i started teaching about viruses that i came down with one. ...

boring of all holy boring days! today was a waste for me, i could've been home sleeping, doing homework, housework, etc. the students ...

i was looking forward to today's lab. i named the lab "infected!" i'm starting a unit on viruses. i kept telling the stude...

today we finished the gum classification lab. i'm just really happy that this lab went well...after all, there were some doubts. most ...

tuesday was spent in a different classroom. not much out of the ordinary with the students. the teacher is very frustrated with their prob...

classification is something i think is fun to learn in science...what student doesn't want to learn about animals. this week i had a di...

I had a video on classification today that led into the five kingdoms. we’re starting virsuses and then the five kingdoms next week. the...

today was the due date of the classification activity. out of ~25 students for each class, I have about 5 students who didn’t turn anythi...

I think the hardest part of today was listening to a student who was still looking for pictures and talking more than working...tell me that...

the lesson today was dealing with the classification of animals and introducing linneaus. the students had to find ten different pictures ...

today was spent with mrs. l and her 26 students. normally she had a 3 hour block of language arts in the afternoon, but due to two student...