January 2024

Mr. Melon's Writing Workshop

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"The spelling rule says i before e. But Albert Einstein broke that rule twice just writing his name. Weird!"

Classroom Creature Stuff

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Posters, Pictures, and a Coloring Book
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49 Ways to Cross a T and Dot and I

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How Come the Janitor's Room Is So Small?

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The Elevator Family Sets Sail

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Ahoy! Nothing suits the Wilsons more than being on a small sailboat with its tiny berths, small head, and compact galley.
Why not set sail on a six-month long cruise to see the world and all its small compact places?

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Crotchety Old Man Comics

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Chair Rodeo

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Classroom Creature Audios

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Classroom Creatures Songs

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New Classroom Creatures Pages

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Stories, books, songs, plays, audios, and free stuff!

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Crotchety Old Man

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Noe School

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A financial crisis! Cut costs! With dough running low and programs costing too much at his school, Principal Ouia insists that his staff and pupils must stop using that most popular non-consonant that follows d and is prior to f. That common writing symbol was also cut from this book!
Lipogram (from Ancient Greek: λειπογράμματος, "leaving out a letter") a kind of writing in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided—usually a common vowel, and frequently "E", the most common letter in the English
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Captain John Paul Jellyfish

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Captain John Paul Jellyfish and his fleet have sailed across the Atlantic. The captain doesn’t like what he finds. Follow the valorous adventures of the bravest jellyfish to ever sail the Seven Seas. His fleet’s challenge? To rid the Eastern seaboard of the pesky Portuguese men-of-war and make the beaches safe again for summer swimming.
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Paddling

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The School Day Begins

The School Day Begins

It's Monday morning at 7:01.
You’re still half asleep; your homework’s half done.
Your shower is cold; your oatmeal’s dry.
Your mother forgets to kiss you good-bye.
You’re walking to school; it’s thirty degrees.
Your fingers won’t work; your toes and ears freeze.
Your zipper is stuck; your left sneaker squeaks.
Your backpack strap snaps; your soup thermos leaks.
You slip on school steps; you trip in the hall.
The toilet floods in the bathroom stall.
The gym door is locked; library’s the same.
The principal greets you by the wrong name.
Your classroom is hot; the coat rack is packed.
Your bean sprout is dead; your clay pot is cracked.
Your pencils are dull; the sharpener jams.
Your fingers get crunched when your desktop slams.
Your math partner’s gone; your neighbor is rude.
Your teacher’s again in a crabby mood.
The morning bell rings; it's 8:01.
Come cozy up to the whiteboard,
Another school day has begun.

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26 Assistants

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The Elevator Family Series

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The Elevator Family

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Thru Hiker

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Luke Dellar, age twelve, is weary of his flip-flop life. He flies to his father's house in San Diego one month and back to his mother's house in Seattle the next. He's even more tired of taking pills for his hyperactivity that has worsened since his parent's divorce. A solution to his flip-flopping, pill-popping life? Run away and hike the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2650 mile, five-month journey from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.
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Princess Stew Musical Fable

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Del & Estelle

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They perch on the streetlight at the corner of College and Ashby.
Estelle is polite and tidy. Del puts the "pig" in pigeon.
Somehow these birds manage to get along.
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Of all I learned about in school,
The most useful thing I found,
Was not a law or property,
But the simple short Ä• sound.
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Museum of Lost Masks

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Elevator Family Enterprises

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The Elevator Family Sets Sail

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Deacon & the Chips Page

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Deacon & the Chips

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The microchips have taken control!

Why have the microchips in Deacon’s neighborhood—chips in traffic signals, ATM machines, mobile phones, and cars---started to communicate with Deacon?    Do they want to help him out, to get free ice cream, good grades, or the occasional day off from school?  No, the Chip Network wants much more from Deacon and many other children in Silicon Valley whose parents work for high-tech companies.

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Our Teacher and the Thinking Cap

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"A fable about finding your bliss."
Our teacher, age ten, rescues a sea lion who tells him about the magical Thinking Cap, a hat, when worn, reveals a person’s innermost desire. In pursuit of the cap, our teacher travels around the world, and in the meantime discovers his calling, his true purpose, what he was meant to do with his life.
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Antonym of Antonym

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I know no synonym of synonym,
But I do know an antonym of antonym.
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Goose Bumps

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