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Music Appreciation:  Quarantine

4/30/2020

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I humbly submit this as a very special edition of our Music Appreciation collection.  The kids will recognize the tune from Billy Joel's Honesty​.
Students are often called upon
to read "chorally".
That is, they read together
simultaneously as a group.

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Repeating this practice assists
​young readers with reading fluency -
the speed, accuracy, and inflection
​of  oral reading.


Why not, since it's called "choral" reading anyway, actually read the chorus of a song?
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The Complete Collection

4/29/2020

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There are 24 lesson sets in all. Along with the first three quarters of direct instruction, these finish out the instruction for the school year.

I have finally finished the last of our 24-lesson set of lessons for the HOGGATTEERS@HOME collection. In this one, three of our founders reach the end of their lives, effectively putting an end to the founding era.

We don't touch on the presidencies of John Adams or Thomas Jefferson.  With the latter, we would have to hit his dealings with pirates, the Louisiana Purchase (from France), and the dispatching of a little expedition known as the Corps of Discovery (the Lewis and Clark Expedition).  There are certainly intriguing moments to come, but for now, we shall limit ourselves to the content of Lesson Set 24:
  • four Revolutionary characters:  Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams
  • Revolutionary events:  the Interview at Weehawken and the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
  • reading comprehension
  • writing instructions
  • reading fluency
  • modeling mixed numbers on place value chart
  • Exact Path reading
  • bonus content:  art, science, and read aloud​
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Remembering Our Year by Looking Back

4/28/2020

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What are your favorite memories of your fourth grade experience?
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One to Go

4/27/2020

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This would be the last of our HOGGATTEERS@HOME lesson sets, but I decided to add one.  That one, the 24th in the series, will put more of a closure on the Revolutionary era.  Meanwhile, Set 23 allows us a brief visit to the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Here is Lesson Set 23:
  • creative writing
  • historic characters:  John and Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and Harry Truman
  • reading comprehension
  • post-Revolutionary event:  first residents of the white house, the War of 1812, and the white house remodel
  • letter writing
  • mixed fractions and decimal numbers
  • bonus content:  art, read aloud, and science

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Memories of the Year

4/26/2020

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Our eighth video for the 2019/20 school year is available below.
​The fourth grade experience was cut short, but that doesn't keep us from looking back.
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Lesson Set 22 Is Finally Ready

4/25/2020

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Things have gotten in the way of uploading the videos for the last three lesson sets, this week, but Set 22 is finally ready.  This one concerns the Washington Monument.  Set 23 will be ready soon, and is about the White House.

In the meantime, we can see in the pictures above that the bluebirds are getting pretty fluffy these days (taken on April 20 and 22).  How long do you think it will be before they fly away?

Lesson Set 22 hits these topics:​
  • a post-Revolutionary location:  the Washington Monument
  • measurement
  • time capsule history
  • reading comprehension
  • STEM:  building a tall tower
  • bonus content:  read aloud, science, and art

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Even More Looking Back

4/24/2020

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Here is the seventh video in our Once a Hoggatteer... series looking back at our 2019/20 school year:
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Lake Champlain:  It's not Champy, but It's definitely Something

4/23/2020

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We considered the possibility of a "sea monster" with the nickname Champy, in Lake Champlain who has eluded searchers for centuries.  I didn't see Champy when I took to the water there, last summer, but I also did not see anything like this.  Just because you've never seen something does not mean it does not exist.
So what do you think?  Would you throw it back?  Keep it to show people?  Mount it on the wall?  Eat it?

For more about my Lake Champlain adventures at Fort Ticonderoga:  America's Fort

For a lesson set that includes Champy:  The Champs
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Fondly Looking Back

4/22/2020

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We're continuing our look back at the 2019/20 school year in Room 404.  Here is the sixth video:
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Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute: History Disneyland

4/21/2020

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The folks organizing the 2020 Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute have packed quite a bit into the sample schedule posted online.  I'm really looking forward to stepping onto the historic grounds of Williamsburg to explore every aspect possible.  Just take a look at some of the descriptions below.

One of the areas I have looked forward to the most is the archaeology of Williamsburg.  This is a continuing study at the properties that I would like to incorporate somehow into our classroom.
Discovering the Past through Archaeology
Archaeology is the study of people and cultures of the past through the objects they left behind. Participate in the simulated dig of an eighteenth-century site to see what you and your students can learn through archaeology. 
As I will spend a week exploring and learning about colonial life in Virginia, I hope to get a pretty good understanding of Colonial Williamsburg during the Orientation Walk.
Orientation Walk
On this stroll through town, learn about the geography and significance of eighteenth-century Williamsburg. Explore how Colonial Williamsburg as a museum has come to feed the human spirit by sharing America’s enduring story, and pick up tricks to find your way as you explore throughout the week. 
Another area that I am deficient in is that of the native lives who visited Williamsburg or lived nearby.  I need to learn more about the interactions that took place between the natives and the colonists.
Native American Experience
During the eighteenth century, Cherokee delegations traveled to Williamsburg to negotiate trade agreements and alliances. Members of local tribes, such as the Nottoway and Pamunkey, also came to Williamsburg as students, peddlers of wares, and enlistees for Virginia forces in times of conflict. View colonial Virginia through Native American eyes as you experience how Indian delegations represented an abundance of distinct cultures, languages, religions, and unique world views. 
It sounds as if the organizers of the institute plan to make us think deeply.  There are several opportunities to make decisions in court cases, witch trials, pirate captures, and alternative histories.  In the Introduction to Biography Lenses session, it sounds like I might have to put the ol' noggin to the test.
Introduction to Biography Lenses
Who we are, the events we’ve experienced, and the communications we’ve shared with the world can tell people a lot about us. Engross yourself in the life and experiences of an eighteenth-century Williamsburg citizen. Discover how they might have viewed key events of the time and decide for yourself about their role in American history.
All of these things happen in one day, and there is even more.  It might be a little overwhelming, but that may also be why those in the know tell us that Colonial Williamsburg is Disneyland for history buffs.
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Yet Another Look Back

4/20/2020

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The end of another school year is always bittersweet.  This year is more bitter than sweet, but looking back at some of our great times might help.  Here is the fifth installment:
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Where Were You When...?

4/19/2020

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When I was in middle school, junior high, and high school, my teachers wanted me to remember dates.  Historical dates.  International history.  State history.  Dates, dates, dates.  These were mostly dates that held no context, and they certainly didn't seem to have any relevance for me personally.  They were the kindling for tests, and they burned into smoke when the test was over.  Gone and forgotten.  It is probably easier for us to remember eras, approximations, and proximities than specific days, months, and years.

Dates of historical significance are often like that.  Memorizing them for a test means nothing to us.  But there are dates that live in our memories because of how they occurred during our lifetimes, because of the personal impacts we felt or shared.

It happened 25 years ago, in Oklahoma City, a month before I moved to Joplin, Missouri.  I shall never forget.

We remember dates.  We remember events.  All of us have moments when we remember where we are when a certain thing happened.  For me, those events go something like this:
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  • July 20, 1969:  I know I was watching television in my living room.  The image was blurry and in black-and-white. Walter Cronkite narrated as man stepped onto the moon for the first time.  My fourth birthday was still a month away.
 
  • August 16, 1977:  I was in the back seat of the family car, just 9 days from my 12th birthday.  We approached a traffic light near the DeVille shopping center in Oklahoma City when a person announced on the CB radio that Elvis Presley was dead.
 
  • March 30, 1981:  It was my sophomore of high school in Tuttle, Oklahoma.  I was in Mr. Dan Kennedy's writing class at the end of the hall  when the news came over the radio that President Ronald Reagan had been shot.
 
  • January 28, 1986:  I was student-teaching in a speech classroom at Yukon (Oklahoma) High School.  One of the girls returned from using the restroom to inform the class that the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after taking off.  My dad was laid off of his job on the same day.
 
  • September 11, 2001:  I dropped off my fourth graders at Music and passed through the office at Cecil Floyd Elementary in Joplin.  A parent came to the counter to ask the secretaries if we had seen the news of planes hitting the Trade Center Towers in New York City.  My wife lost her job on the same day.

This list really highlights the news of the day.  These events are all ones that I could read about, listen to, and watch through media outlets.  But the real events that are closer to me are the ones I could walk outside my door to see.  Obviously, one of those events occurred on May 22, 2011, when we walked out the door and saw the devastation an EF5 tornado that destroyed much of Joplin and took the lives of our friends and neighbors.  

The first of our huge, dated, walk-out-the-door, personal experiences for me (outside of marriage and baby births) happened 25 years ago today:  April 19, 1995.  At 9:02 a.m., as I was giving a spelling test to my class of second graders some five miles away, domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh's truck bomb exploded in downtown Oklahoma City.  I heard the boom.  I felt the shockwave.  None of us knew what it was.

As the lead teacher at Buchanan Elementary, I was responsible for the safety of students and staff.  Shortly after the blast, I delegated a parent to watch my students as I locked the school doors and counseled the staff.  With only one television (located in the library), information was sketchy.  I stood at the front door and let parents in when they wanted to hug their children or check them out of school for the rest of the day.

One of my students, SAMANTHA, attended a few of the memorials in the coming weeks as we ended our school year, and our class dealt with the subject honestly and openly in the remaining days.  Oklahoma City was rocked to the core.  But just as Joplin experienced following the 2011 tornado, people stepped up.  One evil act triggered countless good deeds and innumerable prayers.
I remember the date, the time, and the exact place I stood on the carpet of my classroom, but more than that, I remember the effect that event had on me.  In the process of recovery, I visited the site.  I stood at the fence with an unstable building on the other side.  After the rubble was cleared, I stood at the same fence to see the empty field.  And I have since appreciated the memorial and museum that make up the Oklahoma City National Memorial.  I am stronger now than I was before.  I know more about recovery than I did before a terrorist attacked my country.  That experienced helped me immensely in the aftermath of the Joplin tornado.
Strangely, we don't have a single date to remember for our current situation, but we have a year.  Even though the COVID-19 virus displays the year of its origin (2019), we will forever remember 2020 as the year of isolation and economic horror.  Still, with everything the world throws at us, humanity always prevails, and if we allow it, individuals become stronger, smarter, and better because of it.  One bad thing happens, but billions of good deeds outweigh it.  We survive and we thrive in the wake of disaster.  It doesn't always appear that way in the moment, but when we look back, we will happily remember that we overcame the struggle, and life continues.

My special presentation about the Oklahoma City Bombing
​is now live on our HOGGATTEERS@HOME website.
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The Babies Have Arrived

4/18/2020

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The Eastern Bluebird eggs have hatched, and as long as a predator doesn't interfere, there will be a little bit more beauty in our part of the world soon.  ELLA's family has this bluebird house at their place, and we've been watching the eggs for a little while now.  They think these hatched on April 14, and although they don't look like much, they will grow into the delicate beauty of our state bird.

In the same week, I received this picture of an interesting lizard from LANDON.  That's a chubby little thing, isn't it (the lizard, not LANDON)?
While we're waiting for birds to mature and lizards to do whatever lizards do, why not tackle the lesson sets in the HOGGATTEERS@HOME lesson collection?  The 19th lesson set is now available, and it is an important one.  Not only is this the last episode of Liberty's Kids, but it is also the point at which we establish the United States government.  We'll also explore a little more about the then-future president, James Madison, and his wife Dolley.  Here are the things we cover in Set 19:
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  • Revolutionary events:  the Philadelphia Convention and the War of 1812
  • checks and balances
  • three branches of government:  legislative, executive, and judicial
  • two Revolutionary characters:  James and Dolley Madison
  • ​reading comprehension
  • using metric measurements and area models to represent tenths greater than one
  • bonus content:  read aloud, science, and art
Lesson Set 20 follows, as well, with a bit of information about another of our founders, Dr. Benjamin Rush:
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  • a Revolutionary character:  Dr. Benjamin Rush
  • medical approach during the Revolution:  bloodletting
  • yellow fever and response to pandemic
  • modern psychiatry
  • reading comprehension
  • reading fluency
  • representing mixed numbers using place value, number lines, and expanded form
  • bonus content:  ​art, read aloud, and science
And finally, with Lesson Set 21, we lay our first president to rest:
  • Revolutionary characters:  George and Martha Washington, Dr. James Craik, Tobias Lear, Henry Lee, and others
  • a post-Revolutionary event:  George Washington's funeral
  • using meters to represent hundredths
  • bonus content:  read aloud, science, and art
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Can't Stop Looking Back

4/17/2020

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We're in the process of looking back at our 2019/20 school year.  Here is our fourth video installment:
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Five to Go

4/16/2020

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With the completion of Lesson Set 18 on our HOGGATTEERS@HOME site, I have only five lesson sets remaining in the planned lesson collection.  This one, centered around Shays' Rebellion, is not my favorite, as it depicts poverty and loneliness (Are those timely topics, or what?).  Still, it may help to see that these subjects are not new or unique to us in our current situation; neither is sickness and depression, by the way.  It is something that has been faced before, and the relief comes in that people and nations survived regardless.
Set 18 covers these items:
  • vocabulary
  • reading comprehension
  • a Revolutionary event:  Shays' Rebellion
  • timely topics:  poverty and loneliness
  • using metric measurement to decompose the whole into tenths
  • Exact Path reading
  • reading fluency
  • bonus content:  art, read aloud, and science
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