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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Aug 19, 2006
Description:
Its been a busy 06 for the Smith clan starting with student teaching in Jan, selling our house in RI, moving to TN, trying to get new jobs in TN, and patching together and old mobile home at the airfield (we like to call it the Freebird trailer park) to serve as 'temporary' housing while we get our house built. Still no contract on that by the way but we're making progress... no worries now that we've got the Freebird trailer  Its nice not having a mortgage!
So with school having started for this newbie teacher and all of us going in a million directions... its seems that to our friends we are a submarine and have 'gone deep'! I'd say thats true but every now and then we come up to periscope depth so here's a few shots from our Saturday morning here at Weakley field. We love it here. When we're not flying we're just walking around exploring the field and woods, wading or swimming in every pond we can find and yes, lots of fishing!
The kids have been asking me all week to take them flying. This was their first flight in the SeaRey. I didn't want to take them until they asked. They asked, so I did. They had a great time looking at the neighbors houses, waving to mommy, and flying 'ALL BY MYSELF'.
Date Taken:
Aug 19, 2006
Place Taken:
Weakley Field, TN
Owner:
Bret Smith
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Chet Tims - Aug 20,2006
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Bret -- absolutely Sweet !! I've never lived in a trailer home, but I've hung with people who did and they are just as happy as the ones with the $ 1,500 / month mortgages....<br />THESE are the times you and your wife and kids will remember .....<br />Reality firmly ensconsed:<br />Barefooted with a cane-pole.....<br />Kool-aid and paper cups....<br />Bird-nests WITH eggs in 'em....<br />Searey overflights of 'our house'....<br />Dig it while you got it brother !!<br />
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Frank A. Carr - Aug 21,2006
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Best of luck to you Bret and to your family too in your new adventures.
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Robert Lee - Aug 22,2006
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She is looking extremely excited flying with her hero dad.
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Robert Loneragan - Aug 24,2006
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Good luck Bret ...... thanks for the post on your moves, it is good to know all is going well for you ........... It certainly seems you have made a decision for the best.
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Don Maxwell - Aug 24,2006
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I hope the teaching goes well for you, Bret. (Well, I'm sure it will.) Try not to ask any questions you already know the answer to. (Keeps you fresh and inquisitive.) And if you don't know the answer to a student's question, say so--and then say, 'Let's see if we can figure out the answer together.' It isn't about authority, it's about learning. And it isn't about training, but education.
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Bret Smith - Aug 25,2006
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Thanks Rob and Don.<br /><br />Don, I hear you. I try to think of myself as a coach and facilitator more than a teacher... but with middle schoolers, sometimes you have to be more like the TERMINATOR!
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Don Maxwell - Aug 25,2006
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Remember, Bret, kids are <I>sentenced </I>to school. If it seems like doing hard time, they'll mutiny for sure. But if you can figure out how to make your courses fun for them <I>and </I>for you--interesting and exciting and relevant to their current lives--they'll do almost anything for you. Work from the concrete to the abstract. (Conventional teachers do it backwards and lose at least half the students right from the start.) Make sure that all four (or more) learning-style types among your students can succeed, not only the 20% who happen to think like most teachers. The most important thing is, let your passion for the subject show and have fun. Having fun is especially important because you have to repeat the course every year, so you'd <I>better</I> be having fun!<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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