2004

I am not a fan of Christmas, and I know why.  I bought into the commercialism hook, line and sinker years ago.  Every year I spend tons of money I don't have on my kids.  And then I spend the rest of the year attempting to catch up when all I ever do is get…

... Sunshine Wolf by a snout! We have been taking some training.  "We" being the teachers here at school.  We are part of a pilot program involving technology.  "They" teach us to use all this cool stuff and then the school gets it for free.  Oh bay-bee!  I am not sure th...

I wish there were no politics outside of politics.  I guess that sounds a little 'off'...but that's really what I mean.  Our government is a political system and so it involves politics and politicking and politicians.  Ewwwwwwwww.  I write that whole business off as a necessa...

...Somebody ties a knot in it so you can hang on. Background info: This has been a difficult year at school in terms of student behavior management.  There have been NUMEROUS fights.  The most recent was this past Friday afternoon.  It was actually off school grounds at the park be...

Another "school" story from me?  YOU BET. I tend to gain the trust of the kids that are "bad".  For all the same reasons that my son's friends often times didn't mind me hanging around when they'd have shot their own mothers.  I don't harp.  I don't complain.  I accept th...

Due to some factors that are fairly much out of my control....my students today have had "free" time. What this means is that they can read, work on other assignments or talk quietly to each other. SO..... imagine my pure.......um..........ANNOYANCE SHOCK DELIGHT when THIS little phrase waft...

I'm trying to write an entry while multi-tasking a few other things... 1. My classroom inventory needs to be REinventoried. No, I did it right the FIRST time (after all, I am a woman - heh). However, the school as a whole is missing a few screws, er, items. Now I have to recount every…

One of the things I have been taught in my “How to be a Teacher” courses is that students no longer can learn the way I did.  Nope.  Can’t happen.  Students today cannot be expected to sit quietly for more than 12 minutes (that’s a maximum, depending on age).  Not only that – ...

One of the activities I do with my 6th graders as an ice-breaker/get acquainted exercise is called Soda-Lightful.  It is a line drawing of an ice cream soda.  Each part of the soda has information for the student to fill in about themselves.  Then they may color the soda in to add ...

Shamelessly yoinked from ArtImp and Luna.  (including the word YOINKED)  Maybe some pure, unadulterated, begged for self indulgent praise will help me over this little bug.  If not, I may drown myself in chicken soup - still the best lovin' for the tum-tum. (And don't forget to vot...