DiscomBLOGulated!

As a service to my school cultural committee and as a reason to learn something new, here’s my latest video endeavor:

Tonight my Middle School chorus presented Jack and the Beanstalk.  It was totally student run.  I have never been so proud of kids in a musical I directed.  I can’t wait to see what we accomplish for the Christmas Concert.  I’ve posted the pictures on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmuench/sets/72157602331695555/

While I was reading Mark Ahlness’s post about the wide open internet environment at his school on teacher inservice day, I came across The Free Hug video that he shared from youtube.com. 
 
 Connecting…..it’s something we all need to do to feel part of a community.  Do those free hugs make us feel part of a community?  [...]

Am I changing and evolving to keep up with where my students are going to be in 5 years?  As an educator shouldn’t I try my best to remain ahead of the curve so my students are behind?

Some of my third graders might enjoy seeing these examples since we’ve been studying different versions of the: Stravinsky piece.
An Animation:

Pieces from the Ballet :

Act 1 of the Ballet:

This is so funny.  And it’s 5th graders!  Watch here.

Ashley would be someone great to talk about with my 5th graders!

A few years ago at a conference a presenter gave me that idea of keeping a “Smile File”.  It’s a file that I put encouraging notes or articles in so that I can refer to them when I’m feeling down or like I’m not quite sure of my teaching potenial.  I can reach in a [...]

The hubby is trying to be funny.  He makes me laugh.  Maybe he’ll make you laugh too.  Perhaps a new title for my blog is on the approaching horizon.  I’ll have to think about this one.   What are your thoughts?