Day 39 Lessons From the Middle

Here is one you don't run into as often....a middle school teacher.  I know teachers who love teaching middle school.  I am so thankful there are some of you out there, because it just won't ever be me!  I spent about 10 years teaching 5th and 6th graders and that was plenty of time for me.  I did my time :) I will stay, hopefully, in my happy place...1st grade.

Krystal Mills started this blog one year ago, yesterday! Happy blog birthday to you!  She has a big birthday giveaway...but you have to hurry because it ends this coming Monday!

Krystal is from Canada...so occasionally you will see references (like province) that give that away...but otherwise teaching is teaching and teaching 7th grades is well...a difficult task.  But Krystal's blog has lots of great tips, strategies, resources and of course humor as well.  (If you can't laugh...then you shouldn't be a teacher...and especially if you can't laugh at yourself!)

Stop over and visit Lessons From The Middle and enter her giveaway.  If you aren't a middle school teacher, I'm sure you know one.  They are the ones that carry the small bag home from work...not the huge rolling tote that you see the primary teachers dragging behind them.  Just kidding :-)

Day 20 The Happy Edugator

Here is a new area I haven't delved into yet....

Middle School!

I barely survived my own two daughters being in middle school...I just couldn't imagine teaching middle school.  I know middle school teachers though who say they don't know how I can teach 1st grade too, so I guess it's true...The Lord God Made Them All

Side note....James Herriot was one of my favorite authors when I was a middle school kid.

The Happy Edugator is Deborah (great name by the way) a 7th grade English teacher in Georgia.  She has a lot of out of the box (or rather, out of the boring text book) ideas to make learning fun for her students.  I wish my daughters could have had her for a teacher. I know they would have loved her!

She uses different books that I have never heard of and even an episode of the Twighlight Zone to teach those boring skills you need to know in 7th grade!  And if you are teacher looking for ideas...you have got to visit her TpT store...she has almost 700 items in her store to liven up your lessons!

I had to chuckle...on her google+ profile she has a quote that should be posted in every classroom and household in which a teenager enters:

Think before you speak, and speak not all you think.

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