Well, I feel like I have not had the time to post anything here in a long time. I thought of it today after I got a little ahead on lesson planning and thought I would put up at least something. When I got into the program I use to write my blogs I found one that I had started about a month ago that was half finished and made no sense.
Lets see, a lot of what I have been up to lately has been school work. I have been pushing my Chemistry students really hard and we are about to finish Chapter 10 of a 24 chapter book. I guess I will have to start thinking about what we are going to do when the end of June comes around and we are out of book.
This past week the school celebrated Thanksgiving with the “Festival of Nations.” Each of the Advisories was assigned a country (my kids got Argentina) and we had to turn our classrooms into the embodiment of that country. I found it really stressful because none of my kids wanted to do any work for it because it was not a graded activity. Finally I told them the principle was coming around to judge and I was not going to do the work for them. We did get something done in the end but lets just say we did not win any of the awards.
I got to talk to family on Thanksgiving (Midwest time) which was really great. I am really looking forward to getting home at Christmas to see everyone. and then I spent the rest of my long weekend in bed with the flu. Not the most fun but at least it happened when I didn’t have to take one of my 5 sick leave days.
Hopefully I will find some time to post some more happenings soon but for now I need to get to bed.
