the wheels are cranking....
craziness, this week has been. it could have ended alright if hadn't been for a super stressful parent meeting that made me scared and worried for the next week. *sigh* i just don't want to lose my job.....i really don't. i hate that i feel like every other second im walking into a lawsuit and/or some kind of reprimand from the district and some kind of firing. however, i keep telling myself that if they didn't fire a custodian who cussed out a kid or a teacher who did the same, then how could i get fired? if they didn't punish a teacher who didn't show up at all all the time and did nothing in his classes, how could i get fired? but its nervewracking all the same.
i'm excited though for some things. i'm doing an immigration simulation on monday/ tuesday and i'm excited to be outside and try it out. i'm also nervous as hell that it's going to bomb.i also FINALLY found a somewhat feasible way to re-enact gettysburg with my students outside. it looks like a combination of elimination with balls and capture the flag. i'm going to have to work on the details, but it might just work. then after they are mostly dead, then i could do the gettysburg address (historically inaccurate since the speech didn't happen at the same time as the battle but oh well) outside in my lincoln outfit (i'd have to change). we would need to take an in-school field trip, get the whole team fittied out with balls and flags and possibly flag-football-belts, get my team teachers involved as generals, and possibly it would bomb. but it would be so cool if we could get it going. and not to mention me with a bull-horn. and then i would have to change for the lincoln gettysburg address. it sounds like a lot. but it did get my hopes up because it would be fun to do something different than just learn about the battle. at least i know i'm going to come to school one day dressed up as lincoln and say the gettsburg address speech.
only 25.5 more days left in the school year. it's really progressing. i just hope i can make it through the 25.5 days we have - because i know it will be a challenge. *sigh* at least ill show glory a few days of that. i can't wait until this year is finished though! oh what a relief it will be!
i'm excited though for some things. i'm doing an immigration simulation on monday/ tuesday and i'm excited to be outside and try it out. i'm also nervous as hell that it's going to bomb.i also FINALLY found a somewhat feasible way to re-enact gettysburg with my students outside. it looks like a combination of elimination with balls and capture the flag. i'm going to have to work on the details, but it might just work. then after they are mostly dead, then i could do the gettysburg address (historically inaccurate since the speech didn't happen at the same time as the battle but oh well) outside in my lincoln outfit (i'd have to change). we would need to take an in-school field trip, get the whole team fittied out with balls and flags and possibly flag-football-belts, get my team teachers involved as generals, and possibly it would bomb. but it would be so cool if we could get it going. and not to mention me with a bull-horn. and then i would have to change for the lincoln gettysburg address. it sounds like a lot. but it did get my hopes up because it would be fun to do something different than just learn about the battle. at least i know i'm going to come to school one day dressed up as lincoln and say the gettsburg address speech.
only 25.5 more days left in the school year. it's really progressing. i just hope i can make it through the 25.5 days we have - because i know it will be a challenge. *sigh* at least ill show glory a few days of that. i can't wait until this year is finished though! oh what a relief it will be!