Christian Chick's Thoughts

A few weeks ago, I was Facebook messaging Janet, one of my former students. (I've mentioned her on the blog a few times .) She graduated...

I feel like I haven't had a summer break ... and school starts again on Tuesday! (Is it just me, or does school seem to start earlier ev...

Here is the final installment in the series of short stories written by my students. Today's story, which received first place votes fro...

Today we have the 2nd place winner in my students' writing contest. (See the 3rd place story here .) You never know what you'll get ...

May is that insanely busy time when my life gets super stressful because of looming yearbook deadlines. This year is worse than most because...

This post is mainly a reminder to myself—I think everyone is more than ready for school to get out for the summer, and I've sensed it in...

Yes, the title of my post is a lie. Let me explain ... In my ESL class, we have a "question of the day" nearly every class perio...

I have lived and breathed yearbook for the past four days. From Monday morning at 9:30 through Thursday evening at 6:15, I put in 41 hours a...

We officially, officially wrapped up the speech season last night with a party at my house. We started out with lots of food. I think t...

I had a great weekend. Seriously, I can't remember when I last had so much fun in one weekend (probably because most of my recent weeken...

I'd never heard of Flat Stanley until some of my elementary education friends at Grace started talking about a Flat Stanley project. I...

I've come to expect answers to prayer (at least answers in the affirmative) to come slowly. I've been praying for a husband for the ...

Life has been so busy lately! I keep thinking of things to write about, but then I don't get around to it. So, here's another of my ...

One of the classes I teach is an intermediate-level reading class. We finished reading C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrob...

My school had its annual benefit auction on Saturday night; as a result, I worked for seven hours Saturday afternoon and evening! (Fortunat...

Becky can't believe it's morning. wishes she didn't have to scrape her car. remembers more US history than she expected and p...

Now that NaNoWriMo is over, I feel like I have my life back. Sort of. I'm no longer tied to my laptop for hours a day, but December bri...

I should be sleeping. In fact, an hour ago I was dozing on the couch. But then I got up to get a drink, and now I'm completely awake! A...

I haven't blogged too much about speech this season. But now that the season is over, it's time for a recap. We had the best year ...