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it's cold, i hate some of my kids, and it's cold.
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every year i dumb it down a little bit more.
at first, i think i'm breaking it down in a way that will help them understand it better.
what i'm really doing it making it so i'm doing more of the work. they get away with doing less and less.
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bleh
i think later on in the year, when we start doing poetry, i want to do more with poems and songs. last year, the librarian did this thing with the kids where they had to find a poem (in a BOOK! WHOA CRAZY) that they thought represented them, then a song to match the theme. so like this one kid chose this poem "black is best" and then the james ( Read more... ) -
things that i hate part 12030294340954:
having a wild, uncontrollable crush on someone COMPLETELY inaccessible ( Read more... ) -
fellow teachers, how do we live this way?
not sleeping, sometimes not eating, keeping 1000 things in our heads, floating, keeping long hours, not cleaning our homes, not washing our clothes, always washing our hands, yelling, "quiet down, sit down, calm down, stop, what are you doing, you're late, you're missing that assignment, no i haven't graded that yet, i'm not going to grade that for ( Read more... ) -
the things that i worry about ...
i woke up this morning and was having serious double vision. the first thing that i thought was "OMG, WHAT IF I CAN'T SEE WELL ENOUGH TO TEST WHEELS TOMORROW!?"
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man.
i'm not even going to complain about my day/week, because i really don't even want to talk about it again. all i care about is that it's halfway over, and that sunday is rhinebeck, and i'm getting a new wheel.
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i always do this.
i'm sorry to have disappeared for months! you should know me by now though, and if you don't know me all that well, i guess now's the time to tell you - i disappear in the summer. it's taken me a while to realize that i do this pretty consistently, so i apologize in advance for what i know will happen again next year.
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