Comments on: 600 Words!? Every Week?!! Wha? (Part I)

By: mrC

mrC — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:29:06 +0000

Thanks for the kudos. Everybody who does this gig (willingly) has his/her own shtick to keep the kids in the game. Luckily I also have an actual stick. The kids will learn quite quickly how easy it is to write 600 words/week. Some will even, gasp, grow to like it. I’m glad to have been of help.

By: Amy Hostetler

Amy Hostetler — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:35:07 +0000

This year, I just started teaching seventh grade again after taking nine years off. Thank you so much for your ideas (120 sec presentation, Outsiders stuff) but especially your humor. It helps to know I’m not the only teacher with some four-word lines (I also stole some of those as well).
I just gave my kids my version of 600 words and you would have thought I was asking for a limb. Your blog prepared me for the reaction and even made me laugh (yes, yes, yes — you can write anything). Thanks again for helping me get reaquainted to the seventh grade species.

By: mrC

mrC — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:55:23 +0000

I love it. L U V, Luv it. I put talk balloons on everything. I spend a lot of time with my wireless slate drawing doodles of the kids and writing talk balloons. I might just steal this mutation. Thanks a lot. L U V, LUV it.

By: Kara Hatfield

Kara Hatfield — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:29:44 +0000

Hi, I just wanted to tell you that I stole your KBARR idea about three months ago. BUT- I gave it a much cooler name. I just call it RAR- read and respond. It has grown into RAwR, the ‘w’ representing ‘write’ a response. On the parent signature logs I put pictures of my students and then I add funny thought and speech bubbles. They act like they hate it, but they love seeing who is on the log each week and what it says. Thanks for the inspiration.