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Thinking About Resolutions?

12/31/2020

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Three questions up front:
  1. Just because everyone else is making resolutions, does that mean I have to (If everyone jumped off a cliff, would I follow them?)?
  2. Who said I can only attempt to improve myself on January 1 every year?
  3. Is there a rule that says I can't make more than one resolution?

That being said, if you are one to make resolutions, consider the following:
  • Get my child to school on time every day.
  • Ask my child about his/her day.
  • Diligently read every note that is sent home from school.
  • Listen to my child read every day.
  • Take time to explain things to my child, including daily news and ethical choices.
  • Finally get my child to master basic facts in all four computation areas (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).
  • Read to my child every day.
  • Start and maintain a back-and-forth "journal" with my child.
  • Help my child with work when necessary.
  • Ask my child to explain his/her work.
  • Get both sides of the story before advocating for my child.
  • Set a good example for my child, knowing s/he watches the same screens I do, sees the places I visit, listens to my speech and my tone, and notices how I treat my spouse, family, and friends.
  • Attend family events when they are offered at the school.
  • Begin a positive family tradition.
  • Work to make my home a safe, stress-free place for my child.
  • Stop to appreciate the responsibilities and blessings that come with being a parent.

I don't make formal resolutions, but I think and pray about these things every day.  These suggestions, and others, guide me in my very serious task of parenting (Of course, I have a number of similar thoughts concerning the children I teach.).
May the new year bring with it new desires to improve,
to learn from mistakes,
and of course to wonder, explore, and discover!
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Um

12/30/2020

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We have a thing in our classroom where we try not to start answers or questions with "um".  I often find myself repeating, "'Um' is not a word," and having students try again.  For some reason it is really hard for people to break the habit of filling empty, quiet pauses with the sound of a non-word.  I understand in England, they say, "Er," instead.  If we can make our oral communication clearly and improve our speech-making, these kids will be more employable in the future.

When this student wore this shirt, I thought about how perfect it was for our class.  Stating that Um is "The Element of Confusion," plays on the design of the Periodic Table of the Elements in chemistry.
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Slavery at Monticello

12/29/2020

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Our second and final virtual visit to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello focused on the enslaved people on the plantation.  Our class was highly engaged in a terrific presentation in which our guide stopped regularly to answer their questions.
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"The Turtle" in Miniature

12/28/2020

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After learning about the first submersible vehicle used in combat (believe it or not, in the Revolutionary War, 1776), we had the chance to make our own, with a science connection.  Students experimented with a single variable - the amount of water inside their cartesian divers, developed by René de Cartes.  Nicknamed a squidy by the science company that sells them, ours mimicked the movements of the Turtle designed and built by David Bushnell.
Students used pipettes with the ends cut off.  These are disguised within fishing lures that mimic squids.  Each is weighted with a hex nut.  Students had to adjust the amount of water inside the pipette to make it float at just the right level.  If they could do so, they could place the contraption in a bottle of water.  Once the lid is tightened, a person should be able to squeeze the bottle and watch the pipette sink; when the grip is loosened, the pipette should rise.
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Year-End Reflection

12/27/2020

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The end of the year brings a time of reflection.  As I continually want to remember the things that have brought me to this point in my professional career, I try to add to my personal timeline every year:

1983
Mr. Hoggatt begins working for his degree in Communications from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO).  He takes classes to add a secondary teaching certificate to his degree program.

1985
Mr. Hoggatt graduates from USAO.

1986
Mr. Hoggatt completes his student-teaching requirements at Yukon High School and Mustang Middle School (Oklahoma) and receives his teaching credentials.
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1986
Mr. Hoggatt is hired at The Wilds, soon becoming the manager and education director for the outdoor park.

1989
Mr. Hoggatt returns to USAO for a year to fulfill requirements for a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education.
1990
Mr. Hoggatt becomes a fifth grade history and reading teacher at the Page-Woodsen Fifth Year Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1990
Mr. Hoggatt transfers to Buchanan Elementary School in Oklahoma City, where he teaches gifted second graders in a room with no walls.

1991
The principal encourages Mr. Hoggatt to teach a class of gifted first graders.

1992
Mr. Hoggatt is thrust into a combination class of gifted first and second graders, "looping" with the latter.  The staff nominates him to be the Teacher of the Year for Buchanan elementary, but he has too little experience to qualify by the district's standards.

1992
The Oklahoma City School District selects three teachers to attend the Student Team Learning Conference at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.  Mr. Hoggatt is one of the three.

1993
Mr. Hoggatt wins a small grant for math manipulatives.

1993-1995
For the first time, Mr. Hoggatt teaches the same grade (second) in the same room for two years in a row.
1995
Mr. Hoggatt is the lead teacher in the school when a terrorist explodes a massive truck bomb outside the federal building in downtown Oklahoma City (4 1/2 miles away).  With the principal at a meeting, Hoggatt locks down the building.

1995
Mr. Hoggatt joins his wife who has recently acquired an engineering job in Joplin, Missouri.  On his second day in town, he is offered and he accepts a job teaching fourth graders at Cecil Floyd Elementary.  The last half of his job interview is conducted in the storm shelter area of the school building as the area is placed under a tornado warning.
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1996
Mr. Hoggatt enters a classroom video in a local media competition and wins a monthly prize.  Later the video, depicting a classroom cave, is selected as the grand prize winner for the year, earning the classroom $1000. 

1999
Mr. Hoggatt acquires his Master's Degree in Elementary Teaching from Pittsburg State University (Kansas).

2002
Mr. Hoggatt's Earthquake! unit is selected as Pi Kappa Delta's Excellent Education Program of the year.
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2004
Mr. Hoggatt receives the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce Golden Apple Award, nominated by students and their parents for the third time.

2005
Mr. Hoggatt is chosen to represent Joplin Schools as the district's Teacher of the Year.  He also represents the district as a nominee for the state Teacher of the Year.
2005
Mr. Hoggatt is a nominee for Disney's American Teacher Awards.

2009
Mr. Hoggatt's class website and blog wins the Missouri State Teachers Association award for having the Outstanding Class Website of the year.
2011
Mr. Hoggatt teaches tornado safety to a fourth graders in Joplin, Missouri, two days prior to the town (including Hoggatt's school) being struck by a destructive EF5 tornado.

2011
Mr. Hoggatt assists in coordinating disaster relief efforts with the church of Christ at 26th and Connecticut.  When Summer School begins, he teaches fifth graders for the month of July.
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2012
Mr. Hoggatt travels to Atlanta, Georgia, to meet and observe teachers and students at the Ron Clark Academy.

2015
Mr. Hoggatt completes five years as the president of the Joplin Teachers Association (local MSTA).

2016
One of Mr. Hoggatt's homemade lyric videos wins third place at the annual PBIS film festival.

2017
Mr. Hoggatt's class is featured in a two-part news report about soft skills.  The report is the recipient of the Missouri State Teachers Association media award for the year.

2017
Mr. Hoggatt is one of the 100 Alumni You Should Know for USAO.
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2018
Mr. Hoggatt is accepted to participate in the George Washington Teacher Institute in Virginia.  He spends five nights on the property at Mount Vernon in 35 hours of scholarly lecture and participates in after hours tours and events.

2019
Mr. Hoggatt attends the Fort Ticonderoga Teacher Institute in Upstate New York.  He spends a week at this important location, studying the French and Indian War and recalling the American Revolution.
2020
National and world news strikes at home when school is cancelled for the spring quarter.  Mr. Hoggatt returns to the classroom in August, amidst uncertainties of a global pandemic (COVID-19).  

2021
Mr. Hoggatt will complete his 31st year in education, with 26 in the same fourth grade classroom at Cecil Floyd Elementary in Joplin, Missouri

2021
Mr. Hoggatt will attend the the Teacher Institute at Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown.  He will spend a week in Virginia, learning how British citizens turned into American patriots.
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Thomas Jefferson's Bible Study

12/26/2020

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I've had this volume on my wish list for a couple of years.  I ordered it with a gift card from last Christmas.  The title at the top of the front cover is both descriptive and misleading, though.  This book, constructed by President Thomas Jefferson - self-proclaimed author of America's religious freedom - is a painstaking endeavor to fulfill a promise to an old friend.  It was one man's effort to understand the Bible more clearly.  In doing so, Jefferson left a document that tells us more about his thoughts and opinions of the Christian religion.  It is not a Bible and he he did not title it as such, but is does include the four Gospels, arranged chronologically.
Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, encouraged his friend Thomas Jefferson to formulate his beliefs in writing.  Jefferson promised to do so. With knife in hand, Mr. Jefferson set out to construct a document that he respected and understood to be true.  He put together a book of interlinear columns representing four of the seven languages Jefferson could read, those languages becoming a part of the real title as he assigned it:  The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French, and English.  Mr. Lincoln constructed a chronological account of the four accounts of the Gospel from the New Testament of the Bible - but he purposefully omitted sections he did not believe were true.
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That is to say, President Jefferson cut out any reference to miracles.  He cut out most references to angels.  You won't find water turning to wine, blind and lame people being healed, or any reference to a resurrection as reality.  In the light of this,  (or at least the one column that I can read), I am somewhat amazed that he left references to a God who resides in a Heaven.
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There are several versions of this book with a variety of covers and bindings.  I chose this one because it contains a photographic copy or the original text, complete with Jefferson's handwritten labels.  I can turn to any page and find his knife cuts.  I became interested in this volume when I discovered the National Museum of American History link to the story of the "Jefferson Bible".  The site contains information about the meticulous restoration of the book, complete with ink-study, binding, and more.  As a part-time preacher, history buff, and teacher of American history, the book interests me in all three.  It is a beautiful and compelling peek into the mind of a national genius.
I may not share Jefferson's opinion of miracles, angles, and resurrection, but I must appreciate the lengths to which this man went to study the words.  Few people I know have spent the hours Jefferson did in discerning the Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth...

Now, I am left to wonder at his opinions of the rest of the New Testament (and the Old Testament for that matter).  ​
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Second Quarter Honor Roll

12/25/2020

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We're so happy to announce our second quarter Honor Roll recipients.  The Honor Roll is a proud traditional at our school, where we still value grades and do not water down success.

Eight wonderful students earned straight A's for the second quarter, and six others received A's and B's.
All A's
OLIVIA, ALICE, PRESTON, PARKER, BROOKLYN, DOMINICK, KALLI, and HANNAH

A's and B's
ELI, CADEN, CALI, SHAY, ALEAH, and ALEJANDRO
It's not always easy to maintain these high numbers of scholars, but this year's class has achieved it during the first semester.  During the first quarter, 89 percent of our class made the list, and this time, with three students moving away and two others transferring in, we still have over 82 percent.
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Happy Christmas to All...

12/24/2020

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...And to All a Good Night!

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George Washington and the Christmas Camel

12/23/2020

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You may not have thought George Washington would have much to do with a camel at his Mount Vernon mansion in Virginia.  Still, there were no zoos in his day, so he certainly would have been been intrigued by this exotic animal, so he paid a man 18 shillings to bring one to Mount Vernon.  Every year, this camel returns to Mount Vernon for visitors to enjoy.  Here is a video chock-full of science and history information about "Aladdin the Christmas Camel".
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NWEA Recognition Awards

12/22/2020

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We have come to the first point in our year where we can recognize improvement.  We take the NWEA test three times a year, and after the second and third times, we can compare with the previous sessions.  If students have kept up with their goals in one subject (Reading, Language, Mathematics, or Science), they receive a bronze certificate.  This time, that includes six students.  For students meeting their goals in two areas, a silver certificate is awarded.  For this round, that adds six more students to the list.  When a student adequately improves in three of the four areas, a gold certificate is awarded.  We have two students who achieved that in our recent testing.  Finally, if a student raises scores in all four subjects, a platinum certificate is administered.  We're very happy to have a platinum recipient in our class this time.  Out of 15 eligible students, all 15 made the list for the winter testing results!  Here is the list:
Bronze
CADEN, ALICE, ALEJANDRO, KALLI, EMMA, and MYRA

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Silver
OLIVIA, PRESTON, DOMINICK, ELI, HANNAH, and BROOKLYN

Gold
ALEAH and SHAY

Platinum
PARKER
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More Magnificent Multiplication Masters

12/21/2020

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We're as pleased as punch to announce five additions to our list of Multiplication Masters.

​ALICE, BROOKLYN, DOMINICK, HANNAH, and KALLI have risen to the ranks to join CALI, OLIVIA, PARKER, and PRESTON.  That makes nine masters on the list before Christmas!  Two others are close, as well.

How many more will join the club?
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One Semester Down

12/20/2020

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Our Christmas party marked the end of the first half of our school year, with no shutdowns or snow days.  We're proudly ending the first semester, while looking forward to the upcoming holidays and another semester of successes.
We've grown in all areas possible, and our class personality has developed into one in which we can have fun while working.  We are a family.
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Express Polaire

12/19/2020

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The Hoggatteer Theater played host to The Polar Express, last Thursday, when our class celebrated positive behavior for the month of December.  Hot chocolate, candy canes, and jingle bells were the order of the day as we watched The Polar Express with a twist.

Make no attempt to say Hoggatteers do things like everybody else.  This time, we enjoyed the movie, in surround sound, with English subtitles, but while listening to the Canadian French dialogue.  It is amazing how well the story comes across even in an unfamiliar language, and the French makes it sound pretty classy, too.
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Pascal's Triangle

12/18/2020

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As long as we're talking about the patterns in Monticello's bricks and parquet flooring, we took a little side trip to make tessellations and explore Pascal's Triangle. Students really enjoyed working the triangle to the end, adding the two numbers above each empty space.  Pascal's Triangle also displays many unique and fun patterns if one takes the time to discover them.

Students were sufficiently engaged in filling in the empty blanks and finding patterns - at least some simple ones - on this interesting tool.
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Tessellating with Thomas Jefferson

12/17/2020

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Tessellation:   to cover (a plane surface) by repeated use of a single shape, without gaps or overlapping.
We did our tessellation activity after realizing that the parquet floors in Thomas Jefferson's Monticello are a repeating pattern of shapes.

​To make your own tessellations at home (or wherever you might have the supplies), begin with a small square. We used a three-inch by three-inch square (which happens to have an 
area of nine square inches).  The square, of course, has four sides which we called the left, the right, the top, and the bottom.

With scissors, cut a non-straight line from the bottom to the top without cutting any pieces off.  You will be left with two pieces that fit together like a puzzle.

Now, keeping the pieces oriented as they are when the puzzle fits together (In other words, do not flip or rotate them.), slide the right piece over the left, so that the straight sides are touching.  Tape the straight sides together.
Beginning in the upper left corner of a full sheet of construction paper, line up the straight top of the taped shape with the top of the paper.  Trace the shape.  Sliding it to the right so that the left side of the shape fits within the right side of the tracing, keep tracing the shape.  When you have made it across the page, slide it down to make a second row.  Do the same until the larger paper is covered with the tessellated shape.  Trace over the pencil outline with a black marker.

Finally, alternating colors, use your crayons to neatly decorate the tessellated masterpiece.  Display it with pride; you have just tessellated!
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