Celebrate first. That’s the motto to live by. But it goes against my nature to celebrate when the hand dryers are blasting 150dB of noise in 10-second spurts between explosions of chatter from the seemingly thousands of children who use those bathrooms and dryers right when I need to try and write a blog. Instead [...]
I was finally about to sink my teeth into some delicious leftovers right at the end of lunch recess when the intercom blared, “Mr. Bakker, please call the office!” So much for sinking teeth into food, as a sinking feeling fell on me. I knew what was coming. Mr. Van Eerden was away at a [...]
I spent spring break with 11 princesses and a snowman and I loved it! My wife and I drove our girls down to Disneyland for their first visit at the “happiest place on earth,” and found that even though we were on a break from school, we could still learn a lot. Here are some [...]
This time of year must be one of the worst to “get to” write a blog. It feels like, “have to” kind of work, especially in the midst of writing report card comments. But, since I am in the mode of comment writing, here are my Term 2 comments, written in third person: Seth's Term 2 [...]
Sadly, one of the most enjoyable, meaningful and challenging learning opportunities I had did not take place in a classroom. It took place in my backyard, during summer break, when I finally responded in the positive, to enough prodding from my wife and begging from my then three young girls to build the girls a [...]
I lost my voice again this year. Couldn’t speak at all. Croaks, whispers, whistles and frantic waving of hands in gestures not even remotely resembling sign language were all you could get from me. It happens about once every school year, and you think I’d learn… A bad idea. Yelling at students is a bad [...]
If only ACS was located in San Diego. Granted, we’d have to change our name to San Diego Christian School. We’d also have a terribly large part of our budget paying for the commute, we would have issues with international visas to attend SDCS, and a lot of people would have to relocate. But boy, [...]
Imagine thousands of angry people pointing their fingers at you, repeatedly yelling at the top of their lungs, “Who are ya? Who are ya? Who are ya?” Pretty stressful, right? Source: Vancouver Sun Opposing players taking a corner kick at a Vancouver Whitecaps game know this feeling well, as the infamous Southsiders try [...]
I really like Susan Dykshoorn’s latest blog post. She did a great job of capturing what seems like an amazing summer break in an acrostic poem, and if you haven’t read it yet, do! You’ll get a very clear idea of the blessing of summer, and you’ll also realize how quickly I have jumped on [...]
“Nice dance moves, Buddy!” I wasn’t sure what my brother, calling from Edmonton, was talking about. But then he noted that he had recently seen the Inside Out launch video and proceeded to regale me with how much his daughter—my niece—was killing herself laughing at her Uncle Seth dancing in the library with his students. [...]
