rowan1
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« on: March 24, 2009, 11:26:37 AM » |
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as inspired by Oseph - what gems from Kindergarten would you like your students to remember? Re: "favorite" student e-mails
On the list will be:
Don't whisper to each other in class
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Listen to the teacher the first time she gives instructions My addition - say please and thank you |
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The time is out of joint—O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
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notaprof
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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2009, 11:33:25 AM » |
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The most important skills I learned from kindergarten are cut and paste.
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"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2009, 11:55:49 AM » |
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Keep your hands to yourself
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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2009, 11:58:15 AM » |
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I didn't go to kindergarten; does that mean I'm off the hook?
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"Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair."
Jack Layton, 1950-2011
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« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2009, 12:06:31 PM » |
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I didn't go to kindergarten; does that mean I'm off the hook?
Oops! I didn't go to kindergarten either so I must have taken remedial cut and paste when I was in the first grade. |
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"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2009, 12:39:05 PM » |
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I went to kindergarten for a week. I thought it a complete waste of time and I was not at all impressed by my classmates, who evidently couldn't even read. My mother found a Catholic school that would allow me to enroll in first grade instead.
So what did I learn in kindergarten? Being forced to play ridiculous games with illiterate children is no fun at all.
Oh, but a few years later, my brother (let's call him B) learned a valuable lesson in pre-kindergarten. Here's the backstory.
In B's pre-k class, beans were used for counting. During naptime, an excitable classmate advised B that B should put a bean in his own ear. My brother, a phlegmatic soul, said, "Ok." Classmate then screamed, "B put a bean in his ear!" Teacher inspected B's ears, but could not find the bean. Teacher took B to the hospital. Doctor inspected B's ears, and declared that there was no bean to be found. Teacher asked B, "Where's the bean? Didn't you put a bean in your ear?" B said "Of course not, I'm not stupid."
In pre-k, B learned:
Some people give you bad advice just to see what will happen to you if you take it.
Some folks pay more attention to what loud people say than to what quiet people do.
Hospital visits are very interesting, particularly if there's nothing wrong with you to begin with.
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Systeme_D is right. <rah rah RESEARCH!> |
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2009, 12:54:15 PM » |
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On the kindergarten playground I learned that when someone pushes you too far you jump on them, pummel them to the ground, and make them eat dirt.
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llanfair
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2009, 01:04:49 PM » |
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I didn't go to kindergarten either, but my brother did; he came home one day and announced that it was very important that you stay in line.
Words to live by for the conservative set.
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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2009, 03:55:42 PM » |
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I already knew how to read and how to tell time (analog) when I got to kindergarten, and that freaked out the teacher big time.
I learned to "duck and cover" during civil defense/tornado drills (this was the mid-sixties, and the civil defense drills were being combined with and replaced by tornado drills), but I don't think that was all that useful.
I remember in a mini-scientific experiment learning that water expands when it freeze. I still remember that, though.
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Stop plate tectonics!
and while we're at it ...
Free kittens!
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Free the bound morpheme!
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geonerd
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2009, 03:58:13 PM » |
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Stop, drop, and roll.
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"Is this the water?"
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2009, 04:00:38 PM » |
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Stop, drop, and roll.
Right now. Do it. The future of the free world depends on this. Tornadoes, nukes--they're all out to destroy our family values. |
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i think is good for every one only the think is that we will always scares about that. |
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2009, 04:02:16 PM » |
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Keep your hands to yourself
Yeah, it's called PERSONAL SPACE people, so don't invade mine. It is creepy. Do not talk to me from three inches away. Also, the TMI rule. "Miz Patterson? I need to do number two!" "Billy, you don't need to tell us all that, just say, 'Miz Patterson, may I be excused?'" So therefore, dear students, I do not need to know that you have lice, cramps, excessive menstrual bleeding, green snot, or an appointment at the health center to find out about that rash. Tell me you are sick and can provide a note if necessary, or you have a really bad cold and don't want to infect others. That's enough. |
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Oseph....you are right and you make sense.
For your future comments, I insult very directly.
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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2009, 05:14:30 PM » |
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Go to the bathroom before you leave the house. An hour and 15 minute class is not so long you should have to leave to pee in the middle of it!
My husband contributed...if you are a boy, use the men's room, if you are a girl, use the ladies room.
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« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2009, 06:29:54 PM » |
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It is important to work and play well with others.
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Alas, greatness and meaning are rarely coterminous with popular familiarity.
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« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2009, 06:31:49 PM » |
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Take care of personal business before class/school.
Jeez
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