What would you do for a klondike bar?
I was think about that and there's not a whole lot that I would do for a klondike bar. Would I keep a random person standing next to me, probably, but not for the klondike bar just for the pure fun of it. Ah, who am I kidding I'd probably take the klondike bar too.
So I should be in class right now but I am very tired and that class is very boring and my eyes hurt, and so does my hip, and my eyes are all runny. So, I don't feel as guilty as I normally would about missing class, or about kicking the poor unsuspecting soul next to me.
I think I've finally found a picture to my liking, so rest well Mrs. Ferguson I will try to get it up with this post.
So, I helped a little girl with her math today, poor kid she's probably going to fail math. I did really well helping her alphabetize (sp?) her spelling words, but then we moved on to word problems and as I haven't done word problems in about 7,000 years and wasn't very good at them in the first place, we struggled along as best we could. It was stuff like, Little Johnny is picking apples, he ate two for lunch, and pick 14 after lunch. He has 40 apples in his basket, how many apples did he pick before. See, this seems simple enough but then I start thinking, do we count the two he had for lunch, because those didn't make them into the basket, but he would have had to have picked them because he ate them and I very seriously doubt he ate them while they were dangling from a tree. But what if they were apples that had fallen off the tree of there own accord. Every problem was like this, there were a multitude of what if's! I hope her teacher can undo the damage that I've done.
See, this is why I'm not teaching math. I'm actually doing better with the multiplication that we're teaching in the fourth grade (I was with third graders today) it all multiplication, and I'm better at mulitplication than I am at other things. And when I'm with the fourth graders I get to go to recess and that's always fun. And I get to go on a field trip next week. Its been quite some time since I went on a field trip. I don't know how I'll handle going with 60 or so fourth graders, but I suppose I'll muddle through some how.
Hum, I think that's all I have to say. I should go clean my room now.
So I should be in class right now but I am very tired and that class is very boring and my eyes hurt, and so does my hip, and my eyes are all runny. So, I don't feel as guilty as I normally would about missing class, or about kicking the poor unsuspecting soul next to me.
I think I've finally found a picture to my liking, so rest well Mrs. Ferguson I will try to get it up with this post.
So, I helped a little girl with her math today, poor kid she's probably going to fail math. I did really well helping her alphabetize (sp?) her spelling words, but then we moved on to word problems and as I haven't done word problems in about 7,000 years and wasn't very good at them in the first place, we struggled along as best we could. It was stuff like, Little Johnny is picking apples, he ate two for lunch, and pick 14 after lunch. He has 40 apples in his basket, how many apples did he pick before. See, this seems simple enough but then I start thinking, do we count the two he had for lunch, because those didn't make them into the basket, but he would have had to have picked them because he ate them and I very seriously doubt he ate them while they were dangling from a tree. But what if they were apples that had fallen off the tree of there own accord. Every problem was like this, there were a multitude of what if's! I hope her teacher can undo the damage that I've done.
See, this is why I'm not teaching math. I'm actually doing better with the multiplication that we're teaching in the fourth grade (I was with third graders today) it all multiplication, and I'm better at mulitplication than I am at other things. And when I'm with the fourth graders I get to go to recess and that's always fun. And I get to go on a field trip next week. Its been quite some time since I went on a field trip. I don't know how I'll handle going with 60 or so fourth graders, but I suppose I'll muddle through some how.
Hum, I think that's all I have to say. I should go clean my room now.