Comments on: Classroom Operating Manual http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/ (bôr'dər-lănd') n. Located on or near a frontier. An indeterminate area or condition. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:17:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Doug http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7904 Doug Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:58:15 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7904 No doubt, when they are on YOU, it is personal. You have no doubt broken new ground for classroom procdedures with your efforts to control what sounds like a horrendous situation. Honestly, we had hoards of them in our house, and I called an exterminator who came with a tank and hosed the house inside and out. He told me that I could do the same with a product (not aerosol) that comes from the home center. That's what I do now. One application a year. Window frames and doors, and around the foundation. They're disoriented and lost for a few days, and then they disappear. I can't imagine trying to teach anything on the standardized menu with something like that going on in the classroom. No doubt, when they are on YOU, it is personal. You have no doubt broken new ground for classroom procdedures with your efforts to control what sounds like a horrendous situation.

Honestly, we had hoards of them in our house, and I called an exterminator who came with a tank and hosed the house inside and out. He told me that I could do the same with a product (not aerosol) that comes from the home center. That’s what I do now. One application a year. Window frames and doors, and around the foundation. They’re disoriented and lost for a few days, and then they disappear.

I can’t imagine trying to teach anything on the standardized menu with something like that going on in the classroom.

]]> By: Sarah Puglisi http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7902 Sarah Puglisi Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:51:45 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7902 sorry, spelling goes when an ant pops out of your ear.... sorry, spelling goes when an ant pops out of your ear….

]]> By: Sarah Puglisi http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7901 Sarah Puglisi Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:50:17 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7901 It's sad to say, I'm so thrilled its fourth. cause my first looks better to me now.I was suffering a crisis of quality. As for ANTs. I have them in my pants.By days end I was OVER it. WE had so many big dramas over the ants it got to the point where I was no longer saying "Let's try to put them outside." . I was saying..."I'm going to kill these little buggers...." and other assorted totally correct for young minds thoughts. When I looked up and saw thousands on the blind pulls coming down from the windows at ceiling height I thought, is it possible that this is happening? I have a vacyumm over at school as I sometimes clean it-I emptied the bag three times full of ants. I just seriously pulled one out of my ear...homework was reduced to "Bring a can of Raid and get a PE activity". The Williams lawsuit prevents our using it though. Sarah It’s sad to say, I’m so thrilled its fourth. cause my first looks better to me now.I was suffering a crisis of quality.

As for ANTs. I have them in my pants.By days end I was OVER it. WE had so many big dramas over the ants it got to the point where I was no longer saying “Let’s try to put them outside.” . I was saying…”I’m going to kill these little buggers….” and other assorted totally correct for young minds thoughts. When I looked up and saw thousands on the blind pulls coming down from the windows at ceiling height I thought, is it possible that this is happening? I have a vacyumm over at school as I sometimes clean it-I emptied the bag three times full of ants. I just seriously pulled one out of my ear…homework was reduced to “Bring a can of Raid and get a PE activity”.
The Williams lawsuit prevents our using it though.

Sarah

]]> By: Doug http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7900 Doug Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:53:16 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7900 No, no. My students now are Fourth-graders. Second graders are a big part of my history - but I am too grumpy and gruff anymore to tie shoes and clean up spilled milk. Better to think of ONE solution for a thousand ants. I've tried the thousand-solution approach and it is a losing proposition. I poisoned myself, and had the ringing in my ears for a few days. I learned from an exterminator that the job is done by getting a little bit of poison on every ant, and have them all carry it back to the nest. So, like many other things, we are really trying to apply leverage to the ANT hole. No, no. My students now are Fourth-graders. Second graders are a big part of my history - but I am too grumpy and gruff anymore to tie shoes and clean up spilled milk.

Better to think of ONE solution for a thousand ants. I’ve tried the thousand-solution approach and it is a losing proposition. I poisoned myself, and had the ringing in my ears for a few days. I learned from an exterminator that the job is done by getting a little bit of poison on every ant, and have them all carry it back to the nest. So, like many other things, we are really trying to apply leverage to the ANT hole.

]]> By: Sarah Puglisi http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7899 Sarah Puglisi Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:20:17 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/29/classroom-operating-manual/#comment-7899 Wow, 2nd grade. What an awesome web site for that grade... Today I have a new assignment: Think of a thousand ways to stop an ant invasion. My room is covered.Again. So I hope monday brings in "solutions"(Raid being my first solution). I read your homework comments with much joy. I know, odd that I am. Shall we do the Field of dreams...'If we build it they will come? only in my perfect world without something to keep me hopping. sarah...who is counting homework as we type... Wow, 2nd grade. What an awesome web site for that grade…

Today I have a new assignment:
Think of a thousand ways to stop an ant invasion.

My room is covered.Again.
So I hope monday brings in “solutions”(Raid being my first solution).
I read your homework comments with much joy. I know, odd that I am.
Shall we do the Field of dreams…’If we build it they will come?

only in my perfect world without something to keep me hopping.
sarah…who is counting homework as we type…

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