There will be bad days.

Every bad day has an end.

Word of the Week

This week's awesome word is FRIVOLOUS.

frivolous adj. Not worth serious attention; silly, trivial, not important, inconsequential.

This would be much better than dumb or stupid (yuck!).

The students all felt like the homework was frivolous since it wouldn't be covered on the upcoming test.

Isn't that better?

Word of the Week!

This week's awesome word is ALLEGE.

allege verb To state something is positively true; to accuse a person of doing something wrong without showing proof.

This could be a replacement for said (yuck!).

After the food fight in the cafeteria, the teacher asked Mary is she could allege Bob had thrown the first pea.

All the other students alleged he had done it.

Allegedly can also be used as an adjective.  It means what supposedly happened.

He allegedly started the food fight because he was still upset about an argument they'd had in social studies.

And if referring to a person who has been accused of something, alleged can be an adverb.

He is the alleged pea thrower.

Word of the Week!

This week's awesome word is ABUNDANT.

abundant adj. Present in large quantities, plentiful or bountiful (amount of something).

Try using it instead of a lot (yuck!).

Mrs. Poporad has an abundant selection of books that she'll let her students borrow.

You can also change it to a noun: abundance.

There are an abundance of tardy students on days when it snows.

Timing is Everything

It's fun to use games now and again in class, but that boring old timer on your Promethean or Smart board doesn't always cut it.

Why not try some of these great classroom timers from online-stopwatch.com?

Teaching You to Be Beautiful

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Paul Revere DID NOT say, "The British are coming!"

I know I probably just ruined a lot of your childhood images of Paul Revere on his brave steed proudly waving the American flag as he warns his fellow patriots, "The British are coming!"

The real truth is at the time of Paul Revere's famed 'Midnight Ride', American Colonists still considered themselves British.  Had Paul Revere really told people, "the British are coming," it would have been like saying, "we're coming."  Doesn't make much sense, does it?

It's more likely Revere would have said, "The Redcoats are coming" or (according to witness reports at the time) "The Regulars are coming out" to signify the difference between the British from England and the British from the American Colonies.

I'm not really sure when the phrase, "The British are coming," became associated with Paul Revere.  It's likely that it's a phrase that became popularly used during the War of 1812 at which time the United States, now populated by people who firmly thought of themselves as American, declared war against the British Empire.