Creative Minds

I learn some creative minds.  Evidence below.

While grading notebooks, I ran across this title: "vaostgaotvyasfotssotes"

It was inward the notebook of ane of my 8th graders.  And, his sis is ane of my statistics students.  Curious, I asked her almost it.  "Does your blood brother verbalize whatever other languages?"  "No, why?"  "Well, I flora this cryptic give-and-take inward his notebook, together with I've been trying to decipher it."  She took a expression at it, together with she was every bit confused every bit I was.  Curiosity piqued, she took a moving-picture demo of the page to enquire her blood brother about.

Mystery solved.  My educatee took the commence missive of the alphabet from each give-and-take on ane page of our notebook together with used those letters to practise a novel "word."  That's something I would never guide maintain stance of doing!

Creative Notebook Page Title


Another ane of my 8th aeroplane Algebra 1 students came upwardly amongst a creative agency to heighten her hand:

Creative Hand-Raising Technique
If you've been around my weblog much at all, you lot know that nosotros practise a lot of cutting, gluing, folding, together with coloring.  One day, I was going around the room together with picking upwardly newspaper scraps spell my students were working.  One of my students was quite adamant that I was non allowed to throw away her newspaper scraps?  Why?  Because she was saving them for a exceptional project.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 span of weeks ago, she finished this exceptional project.  She saved her newspaper scraps all commence semester, together with she used those scraps to fashion a hat.  I cropped downwardly the moving-picture demo to protect the identity of my student, only I promise this gives you lot an stance of what it looked like.  I was most impressed!  She wore her chapeau around the schoolhouse proudly for the entire day!

Paper Scrap Hat
Last week, I had a educatee come upwardly inward my classroom carrying this box.  Can I larn out this box inward your room?  Sure.

Empty Box
Curious, I waited to encounter what would popular off of this box.  None of my theories were correct.

The box was shortly spotted walking downwardly the hall.  I had to halt together with accept a picture.

Student walking downwardly hall inward box

Thanks to the guidance together with directions of a friend, the box made its agency downstairs to the cafeteria.

Student walking downwardly stairs inward box.

Soon later its departure, the box made its agency dorsum to my room for some modifications: oculus holes!  A confront was drawn on the box earlier it departed ane time once again for the cafeteria.

Box Modifications: Eye holes together with face

On our final Algebra 1 test, students were asked to describe a mapping diagram that was non a function.  Then, they were to explicate WHY their mapping diagram was non a function.  I had several students describe mapping diagrams that were definitely non functions.  But, they wrote no explanation at all, together with thence I had to count them wrong.

Not Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Function

Not Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Function


One of my favorite parts of beingness is a instructor is that I never know what to expression from my students.  These by few weeks guide maintain been no exception!

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