Saturday, December 13, 2008

High School Homecoming

Has anyone gone back for their high school homecoming before? If you haven't, I would suggest you do. It was a ton of fun! A couple of my friends and I walked around the halls and peeked in classrooms, and it was like 13 years of my life flashed before my eyes. It was awesome! I went to a Christian school so I was in the same big building for 13 years straight. I had Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd... 7th, 8th... all the way to senior year. I love all of those memories that I forgot about. We even went into the girl's locker room to see if it still smelled the same haha.

I love high school basketball. I love the squeak on the floors. We creamed the other team too! We beat them by 45 points. That is crazy. 33 to 78 I think. I went to the Metamora vs. Washington high school basketball game last Tuesday too. I'm really getting into the basketball lately!

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I just had to add this on to the crying list. Yesterday I had a boy who was sent to the principal's office because he was involved with a situation on the bus. So of course when he gets back he put his head on his desk and is crying during entire Social Studies. Then after 30 or 40 minutes, he pops his head up and is ready for the rest of the day!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

drama and tears all day long

I had one person after another crying in my room today. It seemed like there was no break without someone crying. Well no one was crying during PE I think. And I think it's funny. I'm actually chuckling as I write this.
From about 8:30 to 10:30 I had a girl who was teary eyed and red faced all morning about something. She wanted to go home but I said she couldn't ask.
Right before reading groups, I gave 3 boys homework notices because they didn't turn in their homework. 2 of them sat at their desks and cried and cried. One girl came up to me concerned about why there was so many people crying and I told her nothing's wrong they are just sad.
Then during reading groups a girl comes in sobbing, not just tears, but sobbing. I told her to sit down for 5 minutes before she went to reading group to control herself. She came back from reading groups and sobbed for another 4o minutes.
Oh dear. so many tears. I like teaching 5th grade, but I definitely would not want to be an actual 5th grader every again.

Monday, December 8, 2008

my space bar

The right sideofmy space bar does notwork. I'mtryingnottogobackandfixitbutitisannoying the crapout ofme. You see I havebeentyping foralongtimenow. whenwegotacomputerwheniwasfiveistarteddoingthesetypinggames.thenofcoursein juniorhigh i doofficialtypingclass. theninhigh school and collegeigetevenmoreusedtotyping.

Sojust tonight i figured out how my spacewill work. I havetotypeitwithmyleftthumbonthe leftside ofmy spacebar.so now i'm officially starting to retrain myself to punch the space bar with my left thumb. every time i have to seriously think about it. i at least was abletodoitforawhilebut ijustgaveupandnowi havenomorespaces.

helpmeandmykeyboard!

My class and I were on the front cover of our newspaper today :)

I had my kids each write a novel in November. We were the nerdy class that wrote everyday for an hour in the computer lab. It was actually a lot of fun. We even locked up our "inner editors." It's a program called NaNoWriMo. Anyways, I submitted this article and all of my kids pictures to the newspaper and it got on the front page. woop woop. The pictures were all in color in the newspaper, and they aren't on the website. So that's sad you can't see the fine colorful drawings.

http://www.pjstar.com/kjs/x692907984/Germantown-Hills-students-take-novel-approach-with-November-writing-project

It's not all that exciting, but it is exciting for now.

Monday, December 1, 2008

I want to be a postman.

So some of you may remember me saying I've always thought that being a postman would be a great job. I thought it would be a good over the hill job. How could you have a bad day as a postman? You're outside most of your day, you get good exercise walking from door to door, and you get a free car to drive around in! Of course when it rains or snows it probably stinks, but it stinks for pretty much everyone when it rains or snows. Plus I'm sure I could just put on a ton of under armor to stay warm. They probably even provide you with rain hats. Oh, but being outside on those nice days would be so worth it. I love getting mail too, so I would be the providor of good things to people. That maybe going overboard, but people appreciate the consistency of mail and the spontaneity of getting something actually exciting.

My brother-in-law Jason actually busted my bubble though because he said they usually only take veterans or active military men and women. You mean I have to go to war to be a postman? If that's their reward for serving our country all of those years than it must be a good job. I wonder if I sent in a lot of references from military guys then they would let me in?

Actually I was thinking about this again because I was driving to Walmart on Saturday. On my way there was this postman vehicle that sped right past me. It was going by so fast it made this huge noise and was maybe even a blur for a second. I started thinking about how I could be that person blazing down the street in a postman vehicle. I would recommend that my vehicle be a jeep of course. That would be sweet. I could be known for driving quickly just to get your mail there a little faster, and I could even run from door to door in the neighborhood. Any postman I've ever seen walks waaaay too slow. That's probably why they call it snail mail. They walk and drive too slow.