WOW! So I’ve been like
perpetually behind lately, but this weekend I got 100% caught up and have a
plan that will hopefully help me to never be this behind again.
So what has
happened since the first week of school?
I have learned almost all
of my students’ names. 187 names is a lot of names, especially when only half
of them ever raise their hand. I did learn the really talkative students’ names
very fast. I have learned about more paperwork that I need to do, also the
fines associated with not doing them. I have learned the personalities of each
class and how to change my lesson to fit that class. Each class is so different
its fun to see the classes come in with different emotions each day. Sometimes they
come into class very quiet and calm and sometimes they come barreling in full
of excitement. Some days I wonder if anyone is home out there and other days we
have the best conversations ever. We are all learning new words together and
what is in and what isn’t in (by the way saying math is easy-cheese is not in)
the whip is in, the science teacher wants 7th period to be quiet (I
learned this because all the Honors students have me 6th, science 7th
and they are always saying that the science teacher is yelling at them. She doesn’t
yell at them anymore than I do but somehow she’s the bad guy, sorry science),
the English teacher still has the rat and hasn’t found it yet (in college I was
roommates with two of the other teachers and we had this glow in the dark small
Halloween rat that we would hide in each other’s rooms, cars, backpacks and now
we hide it in each others classrooms), and I still love seeing that light turn
on when a student finally understands, I especially love seeing it when they
are working on homework together and they are explaining their answers and
settle on who has the right answer and why it’s right.
Here's the little rat we hide in each others rooms
Here is where I hid it in the science room, then it got hidden in English
I also ran the Disneyland
half marathon over Labor Day weekend. That was a lot of fun, but might have
contributed to my being behind on paperwork. I can’t wait to run it again now
that I know how it works.
Since we ran it during the diamond celebration and the 10th anniversary of the
Disneyland half we got a ton of commemorative stuff
This is a pin of the medal, I put it on my lanyard I wear at school
Me and mom at the running convention being silly
The shirt we get for running, the lanyard and pins
and cellphone holder I got at the expo
and my bib and information book
The night before the race making sure we were all ready for the race!
Mom is Ariel and I'm Flounder
Grading at the hotel
At the start line. There were soooo many people!
It's finally our corrals turn to start running, I can now see the starting line
Cars land
Cinderellas castle
Small world
a little over half-way done and still smiling!
The roads leading up to Angles stadium were lined with old cars
it was so cool
almost inside Angles stadium
At the finish line
In downtown Disney
After you run they give you this box of goodies
the cheese was actually pretty good, although having been
awake for like 5 hours and not eating anything might have
had something to do with it.
Later that same day we went to Disneyland with Auntie Lisa and Sarah and Joseph
I don't suggest going to Disneyland after running 13.1 miles but we still had fun
I bought myself a diamond anniversary hat
I was also there for the 50th anniversary and have a hat for that celebration too
At the expo you could get green screen pictures they were fun
I have also learned that I
am not cool unless I have read the Michael Vey books. I think I’ll need to buy
them as audio books, I have found that I really enjoy listening to audio books
on my way to work, and I also don’t get as mad that the light takes forever to
turn green if I’m listening to a book.
Awhile ago I read this article so I decided to try it. We needed a new seating chart in a few classes
anyway and I needed to see who the students who were struggling with would talk
to so I tried it. The results are somewhat surprising to me. A few of them I expected,
a few of them I didn’t expect.
