Tonight at the Open House one of my kids introduced me to his mom as, "This is Miss [Waldo].  She's the *coolest* teacher on the 5th grade team."

Now, I could go on about how the reading system we have says you start kindergarten at Level A reading and if you're on level, you end 8th grade having finished Level Z ( Read more... )

• I've done the stained glass soap as smaller soap sticks for party favors/gift sets/whatever.  I think they may be even more awesome when they're smaller. :)

• My soap ball mold is giving me a headache.

• We had a field trip to the LP Zoo today.  I took Sherlock and J3 as well as TM and a kid you've probably never heard me talk about before - S1. ( Read more... )

( H50 - minor spoilers for tonight's ep )

Last year: I had a student bring an apple for the teacher on the first day of class.
This year: I had a student bring me Ghiradelli's mint chocolate on the first day of class.

So, both of us being busy this year, Chat and I were going to skip doing a door at MW this year. But then it started bugging me and I decided that even if it was something we tossed together quickly, we should have a door. So I printed many pictures from Heroes and tossed a bulletin board in my bag and ... poof. Door. The lists under the "Are ( Read more... )

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