Only 39 days left in the school year to teach the rest of my curriculum. Yikes! But state standardized testing this coming week - bleh. This is why my history class will be treated to "the end of the Middle Ages in Europe - death and destruction"...(no, really - the lesson on the plague, including Pixar's short film from the point of view of the ( Read more... )

Sorry, couldn't resist the high school choir music joke ( Read more... )

A three-day weekend. Huh. Far too much to do, and I spent the day off I had curled up reading or watching scifi ( Read more... )

I'm home today with my sniffling, cold-ridden child. Sent a message to the woman who teaches in the classroom next to mine. We have an understanding that if one of us has a substitute in our room, the other will keep one ear open and one eye on the other teacher's kids. She emailed this back ( Read more... )

A long day. Mostly good, though. My sniffly family is feeling better today. Chicken soup does in fact work...Jewish penicillin indeed *grin ( Read more... )

Fun yesterday - Free Comic Books Day! So my daughter and I went downtown and got autographs by comics/graphic novel artists at two stores...one Marvel artist and a team of guys from Italy who did a great children's series. The funny part was that some of my students were doing a math competition yesterday and ran into us with their teacher ( Read more... )

Whew. Long day ( Read more... )

SPRING BREAK ( Read more... )

The dregs of an early spring cold slowly going away...bleh ( Read more... )

Wandered (as usual when I get to Whole Foods) to the Goodwill bookstore and discovered that someone had brought in boxes of comic books. :) So I called my daughter and suggested she and her father wander by on the way home and meet me...and she ended up with 9 Doctor Who comics. :) 6 from us and she paid us back for 3. Nice ( Read more... )