Big, fat warning to kids snooping around this TEACHERS page:
Leave now! If you don’t you will find out the secrets of teachers. You will know what they look at when you are not around. Your eyes will be reading a FOR TEACHERS EYES ONLY FILE! Surely you are not the sort of kid who wants to know your teachers private business. Wait! You say you are that kind of kid. My mistake. I should have known better. I was that kind of kid myself. Read on. Enjoy every juicy detail.
STUDENT CONTEST
I agree with Lucy Rose’s grandmother, Madam, when she says teachers should be paid more than movie stars. I think you are heroic and deserve public recognition. After all you do for your class, here’s a chance for your students to do something for you:
How great is your teacher? I don’t know. You tell me.
Step 1: Write a paragraph or two about your teacher.
Step 3: I will read all the mail and choose a winner. That teacher and the student who wrote the winning paragraph, will appear in the Melonhead book coming out in Spring 2012. The winner and the teacher will each receive a signed copy.
Step 4: Be famous. Show off. Highlight your name in the book. Bring it out at parties, weddings, funerals and whenever you meet someone new. Do this for the rest of your life!
GOOD LUCK!
Step 2: E-mail it to me at katykelly202@gmail.com before MAY 15, 2011 OR send it to:
Katy Kelly
5721 Western Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20015
SCHOOL VISITS
Katy Kelly loves doing author visits! To book one for your school, e-mail her at: katykelly202@gmail.com
!!!!BIG FUN and GAMES!!!!
When students ask why they have to check their spelling when the computer does it for them, Spellchick is the answer. When they can’t write because they’re out of ideas try playing What If?
Kids (and most grown-ups) are in the habit of letting Spellcheck do their proofreading. This letter is perfect according to spell check. Have the class proof it, and write one of their own.
Deer Ant Merry,
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Your well, Eye hop. Bee car full down their inn floor da.
Form you’re nephew,
Ned
Spellchick
What if?
Move quickly from one student to another without think time
in-between.
It usually goes something like this:
Teacher: What if there was a...
Boy: A boy named Jason.
Teacher: What if the boy could...
Girl: Fly.
Boy: Fight.
Girl: Turn invisible.
Boy: Stretch to be 10,000 feet tall.
Teacher: Describe Jason. What if he...
Boy: Has huge muscles.
Girl: Has blond hair.
Boy: Knows Judo
Girl: lives in a cottage by himself.
Boy: Is the richest person on earth.
After the class invents characters, gives them a back story and personality traits, and saddles them with a problem, stop the game. Each student writes their own ending. Read the new endings aloud.