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All things considered, the storm wasn't nearly as bad as predicted, we had an early dismissal on Friday but still I'm SO glad I took it as a sick day. Holy cow did I need the sleep! Friday was mostly spent drinking tea, napping, catching up on the DVR and watching it snow. I actually watched SPN 8x13 twice - the second time with Ryn so we could ( Read more... )

Somehow traveling with rynnalyn has completely messed up my sense of time. For whatever reason, I felt like we traveled Monday/Tuesday even though I know we traveled Sunday/Monday. So when Jeanne and I were in school today and unpacking, I was stressing about bringing T to school "tomorrow" (which I felt was Thursday, but is actually Wednesday). Somewhere ( Read more... )

*groan* I've already got the LDTC calling from school about IEP meetings for a new student (and his nervous nelly mom). It's only JULY! *sigh* And I checked my school e-mail account; I've got 3 IEP notices about kids I don't even know!

Blah.

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I was having a Battleship tournament with my 5th graders so I used this as our "anticipatory set".

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My 5th graders were working on a math/language project involving writing out a series of directions so that someone else could copy their original design. Once they worked with a partner or two, they brought the directions to me to see if I would make the right design ( Read more... )

I was so enthusiastic and overboard about the dancing for the Spring Concert finale that three of my fourth graders tried to do the wave. Just the three of them. It didn't catch on.

But those three kids = Awesome. \0/

This morniing for Friday morning coffee at school I hosted a "Think Pink" breakfast. I made sugar cookies decorated with pink sprinkles, pink icing or dipped in chocolate; I brought mini strawberry Little Debbie cakes, pound cake with strawberries and Cool Whip, watermelon, pink wrapped chocolates and melt-away mints. My partner in crime brought ( Read more... )

Today is the third day of standardized testing - math section. Not only do my students get extended time, but they can have everything except the reading comprehension passages read to them, so today I read everythingThis should be interesting considering I basically have no voice. *sigh ( Read more... )