Two random sightings in one day.
#1 Stuyvesant High School cafeteria
This sounded bad.
#2 Woodhull Street, Brooklyn
The one on the street sounded real nice.
Yeah, I walked it.
14 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in STEM Tags: Highbridge, water
My choice for this year’s NYCDOE STEM Institute was on water engineering in NYC. We talked aquaducts, reservoirs, pipes, etc. The highlight was a trip to the Highbridge aquaduct that connects 173rd Street in Manhattan over the East River to the Bronx. The birdge scared the tar out of me when I drove underneath on the Harlem River drive.
Word Coding
14 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in code, computer lab Tags: coding, spelling
In this activity, students use N(orth), S(outh), E(ast) and W(est) arrows to spell words off a letter grid.
For example, “JUMP” is E, E, E, S.
In this example, “ABOVE” is S, S, E, S, E
After doing several examples, give students a code (e.g., S, S, E, S, E) and let them figure out what word it spells!
Remember to specify the starting box (which is typically the upper left-most cell — like in a spreadsheet)
And all the rest of these ~some words
06 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in ~some words
tiresome – me, now
meddlesome- those kids from Scooby doo
lissome – see lithesome
fearsome – scary, as in, “my, what fearsome teeth you have, granny.”
adventuresome – Jake and Finn, duh.
mettlesome – full of mettle (as in “good spirits”)
blithesome – breezy indifference
awesome – that which induces awe, such as a 30′ wave and me on the longboard
bunglesome – (this is a good one) always messing up
lithesome – see lissome
lightsome – the daring young man on the flying trapeze
wearisome – writing this list
darksome – the love-child of tall+dark+handsome
