It may take me a bit to figure out how to use this place to my satisfaction, but have no fear I’ll get it.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Dead Bunny, please allow me to introduce this mascot. Eventually, I’ll save this to an about page so everyone can meet him.
Let’s get the preliminaries out of the way, Dead Bunny actually started out as a live bunny. I was trying to teach a student prepositions by explaining that a preposition is a word that can describe the relationship between a bunny and a box. (I was scarred in my youth by a video teaching prepositions this way.)
We were working through a worksheet, and I was trying to help her without giving her the answers. At one point, I had the bunny-shaped hand moving off the box-shaped hand. She guessed all manner of prepositions, none of them the right one. Finally, I made the bunny hand fall off the box hand and land on its side.
The student, a nine year old with a penchant for pink frilliness, brightly exclaimed, “The bunny falls off the box and dies!” She drew pictures of the unfortunate bunny on everything, and even took to calling me “Dead Bunny”. It was quite fun to have to explain that one, but it also made me the resident expert on teaching prepositions.
The original plan was to have Dead Bunny teach grammar and writing, but I’ve finally decided that Dead Bunny should actually be the mascot for all of my teaching products I’m planning out.
Dead Bunny’s first offering is going to be a math book designed to serve as a reference for students struggling with pre-algebra and algebra. I’m writing it as a series of articles that will be smoothed into a book. The plan is to post each article here, and then it will be your job to let me know what you think about it.
To put it simply, you’re going to help me make sure my book is actually helpful!
The first articles are already underway, so keep an eye here for them.
