What is your greatest victory in life so far?

 I take attendance by asking the students a question (previously 2019, 2016).

What is your greatest victory in life so far?

• chilling
• sleeping
• being here today
• surviving this far
• seeing another day in this beautiful world
• waking up :)
• ^ so real!!!!
• going to college
• nothing
• happiness
• eating breakfast
• being awake right now
• getting up early today
• living
• my friends
• slaying yass
• being an older brother
• loving other people

This post's theme word is antelucan (adj), "before dawn". Based on student testimony, one might believe that I have an antelucan lecture.

What is the longest amount of time you have gone without using the internet?

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question. (Previously 2017, 2019.)

What is the longest amount of time you have gone without using the internet?

Answers varied:

• not long
• 10 minutes
• few hours (x2)
• 12 hours
• 1 day
• 2 days (x3)
• 3 days
• 5 days
• days
• 1 week (x5)
• a week in nature
• 2 weeks
• month
• 9 months
• 6 years
• no clue
• my childhood
• first couple years of my life
• first 2 years of my life
• first 5 years of my life
• first 7 years of my life

This post's theme word is testudinal (adj), "slow; old." Reminiscing about years of school pre-internet makes one feel testudinal and ornery.

What is the first word you spoke aloud?

 I take attendance by having students answer a question (previously).

What is the first word you spoke aloud?

• MAMA / mom (very popular)
• Dad (also popular)
• Yeah / no / yes / Hi (makes sense)
• goat
• duck
• cow
• ball
• apple

Kudos to the student whose first word was "0" (the number).

Bizarre side-eye to the following students who wrote:

• student A: "[student B's name]"
• student B: "I love [student C's name]"
• student C: "yeah"

This post's theme word is umbriferous (adj), "casting a shadow." Luckily a child's first word is not an umbriferous portent of their entire life!

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question (previously 2016, 2017, 2019).

What is the sound of one hand clapping? Students mostly picked some popular onomatopoeias (or no): 

• clap (10)
• snap (6)
• no sound (3)

Then a lot of singletons:

• faint clap (1)
• snup (1)
• plap (1)
• tap (1)
• *pop* (1)
• plup (1)
• plap (1)
• hit (1)
• not possible (1)
• finger snap (1)

Two people were present in class but chose, as a way of expressing themselves, to checkmark next to their name on the sign-in sheet but leave the space for answering the question blank.

This post's theme word is gowpen (n), "two hands cupped together." Give me one gowpen of thoughtful questions, please.