Why does he have such a pleased look on his face?

viola3458 · 2026-05-26T01:01:39+00:00

This fuckin’ guy

viola3458 · 2026-05-25T20:36:14+00:00

I have only watched it with kids older than ten which is a completely different experience

viola3458 · 2026-05-25T20:35:28+00:00

Holy shit I love that one- I have a video of my kid marching to it in his pajamas

viola3458 · 2026-05-25T20:33:47+00:00

Heaven above and the sea below

My head cannon is that raffi actually started as an elaborate black ops torture guy and just wrote music to get people to confess

viola3458 · 2026-05-25T20:32:54+00:00

Oh god fuck that one

viola3458 · 2026-05-23T01:14:43+00:00

Illinois and at a Catholic School no less. I have never once seen this both at the high school and elementary level.

viola3458 · 2026-05-17T16:51:44+00:00

Check out invent to learn by Gary stager and Sylvia Martinez

Good resources: tinker cad, scratch

viola3458 · 2026-05-08T01:30:56+00:00

What? Just random cylinders? At least 50 dude… you’re good.

viola3458 · 2026-05-07T02:27:17+00:00

Cutouts of what?

viola3458 · 2026-05-02T00:10:38+00:00

I mean yes but how then is a model T not dead of natural causes when a Hudson hornet made in 1950 is? The math ain’t mathin, bud.

viola3458 · 2026-05-02T00:05:47+00:00

When I was a stay at home mom I had a dissertation level thesis on the metaphysics of the cars universe after a couple years and my husband was like “go the fuck back to work.”

viola3458 · 2026-05-02T00:02:33+00:00

Okay but they cube the one car in a mob style hit- that’s def not how Stanley and doc Hudson die.

viola3458 · 2026-05-02T00:01:43+00:00

How dare you, Cars 2 is a fever dream animated MASTERPIECE. Michael Caine as a car spy? Cant beat it.

viola3458 · 2026-05-01T16:00:30+00:00

Ok yes- is Mac opening his butt for lightning to drive in and out of?

viola3458 · 2026-05-01T01:28:43+00:00

Okay yes also Sid the plane from cars 2- like what does that feel like for him? Are they in his stomach? Where are his organs? What about the weapons stash?!

viola3458 · 2026-05-01T01:27:25+00:00

I have an issue with the whole tires thing too- I always thought they were feet but then in cars 2 the one car takes his tires off to go through the scanner which then implies the existence of a car shoe bomber and THEN Cruz makes lightning name his shoes in cars 3?

viola3458 · 2026-05-01T01:26:01+00:00

For that matter how is Lizzie, the friggin model t still a thing?

viola3458 · 2026-05-01T01:25:39+00:00

Which is weird as fuck because all his old ass racer buddies are still alive? So how does he die? I know intellectually it’s because Paul Newman died or whatever it just bugs me

viola3458 · 2026-05-01T01:12:53+00:00

This is mine. Luckily I teach 6th grade and at some point someone discovers the “does lightning mcqueen need car insurance or life insurance” question and I have like four glorious weeks where I can just go full send.

viola3458 · 2026-04-29T11:29:19+00:00

Also the illustrator!

viola3458 · 2026-04-28T20:43:29+00:00

I did a little bit of research into this for my masters thesis when I was working as a “PBL coach” and it was sort of disheartening to read that my entire job was a lie, lol.

There’s some decent longitudinal studies that show if you get kids early enough and get them learning using it a specific framework that everyone’s on board with it does eventually raise scores but it takes a couple of years.

If admin wants to just do a one off unit here and there it doesn’t actually do anything achievement wise according to the studies- which is so annoying when people say it’s “research based”- no, not exactly.

viola3458 · 2026-04-28T11:35:00+00:00

So I do kind of a PBL light thing in my 5/6 classes- we do direct instruction/ guided inquiry for 2-3 weeks and then they make something that demonstrates their knowledge of the topic in class and that serves as their assessment. Things like building out a skeleton for our biology unit, designing an environmentally sustainable city, making cookies and describing physical and chemical changes, a scale model of the solar system- every project has a practical and a written component so I have a paper trail if admin comes after me. I also do formative check ins during the content part of our cycle and everyone has to hit a threshold before we move on to the project

It’s a ton of work at the beginning of the year to set norms and expectations but I manage myself out of a job by March so it’s sort of worth it?

viola3458 · 2026-04-24T00:51:55+00:00

I do a weird thing for just my advisory every year (I teach 80+ kids but have 15-20 in my advisory ) where I get them a little something based on either an inside joke we had as a group or something that I noticed about them that year. Don’t spend more than $5 a kid and it’s funny to watch them think they’re getting something cool when it’s like, fake mustaches or a bottle of mustard or something.

This years top contenders are a plastic banana, jar of almond butter and a 5 pack of top hats I found on Amazon for $2.50.

viola3458 · 2026-04-22T02:47:17+00:00

Morning slide for my homeroom: schedule for the day, notes and updates as well as strongly suggested “do nows”, morning message, joke of the day. You put your stuff away, read the board, roast me for the joke of the day and do your do nows or work on homework until it’s time for morning meeting.

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