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Is anyone reading Livejournal anymore?
I haven't written in a year. It was a wild year. I'll tell you more in another post if you like. I'm just wondering if anyone is still using livejournal? -
Another Year, 105 Students....
We have departmentalized so I now teach 6th grade science and social studies. We have three classrooms of 35 students each. I have the beginning ESL students in my homeroom. I've got a couple of "bad attitudes" already making themselves known. They drive my three colleagues crazy too. Ms. G and Ms. Z share a homeroom because they have the special ( Read more... ) -
Updates on a Few Hurricanes
Zeta who came from Nepal and doesn't speak yet got 100 on a math quiz. Sandy regularly gets 80s and 90s even though she is not yet fluent ( Read more... ) -
Gamma Zeroes In
Gamma has done nothing all year. No homework, no notebooks, no tests, no papers, nada, nothing, zip, zilch, zero, nil, none, nothing, no ( Read more... ) -
Q and A from Today's History Test
Q: When Hitler attacked and conquered a country what did he do to the Jews living there?
A: Let them celebrate and have a Nazi party!
Q: Tell two facts about "Kristallnacht."
A: She was a girl. She drove one of the plains (planes.) -
Learning: Do some everyday!
I explained to the class that Arabic is read from right to left. Isaac said, "I didn't know that!" I replied, "Well now you can say that you learned something new today ( Read more... ) -
Exams and Failures
We've been taking state exams. Stupid, annoying, torturous. The 6th grade kids are mixed in together with the ESL kids separate because they get extra time. Wisdom (who is not very wise) was in my room and at the very end of exam time, Theta and Wisdom had a knock down, drag out, fist fight. Both are formally suspended. I won't see Theta for a ( Read more... ) -
Angry Bird Flies the Coop
Epsilon came in yesterday wearing an Angry Bird t-shirt. I gave him a pass to see the asst. principal right then. (We have a uniform and birds, angry or otherwise are not part of it, except for the Owl. Our logo polo has an Owl.) He came back with the reading teacher. They moved him to Mr. Charles' class, though Mr. Charles is still out on ( Read more... ) -
Pre-Kindergarten Behavior
Epsilon, you're not only disruptive when you tie your own sneakers together, but it's a behavior that should not make it out of Pre-K. And kicking all of the lockers on the way to the Assistant Principal's office means you're now suspended for two days ( Read more... ) -
Report Cards Online
If you want me to do my report cards online and do them correctly, you must provide training. That is all.