is when it's the week before I HAVE to be back at school, and I'm going back to get some work done anyways ( Read more... )

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In "Angels we have heard on high" the angels sing in latin. Why are the angels singing in latin? The song, i think, is originally French. If it's a direct quote from the angels, why is it in latin? The shepherds probably didn't speak latin. So were they like, "huh? What'd he say? Odd. There are strange glowing creatures above us. Let's get ( Read more... )

My first week of school can be summed up with one phrase.

"We're going to wait until everyone is sitting quietly."

The best response to this phrase which left me stunned....

"One moment! I'm still talking ( Read more... )

Like an indecisive idiot, I stood in the teacher store browsing the stacks of plan books for about 20 minutes this afternoon. Little girls who spent hours picking out the prettiest pink, flowery, Lisa Frank 2-pocket folders in elementary school often times grow up to be elementary school teachers. It was at that moment, remembering my time spent ( Read more... )

For high school graduation I got a bike. It was brand new and all that sort of stuff. It was going to be perfect for college transportation (life without a car). My bike lived on many bike racks - Russell Hall, Bushnell, Custis, Apartments... and found itself often abandoned for a day or two at a time locked to the railing outside Pollard Hall ( Read more... )

I'm done! Done! Finished! Outta there!

I get the silver medal for staying at school the longest (which doesn't exist, unfortunately.) One other teacher is still there trying to pack her kindergarten classroom up. Kindergarten classrooms have everything! Can I borrow your vacuum? Can I borrow your crock pot? Can I borrow your spatula? Can I ( Read more... )

I wish I had a brilliant opening sentence or amazing story to start with, but I don't. But I felt that I hadn't posted in awhile and I'd share ( Read more... )

It was the end of the day and we were frantically cleaning tissue paper, playdough, pipe cleaners, etc. of of the floor. I guess I was telling them how we had to clean the floor so it could be vacumed after school ( Read more... )

This afternoon at approximately 4:30 pm I was sitting in my classroom AT MY DESK! I never sit at my desk. My desk serves more as a private kid-free piling area. Like a safe for things that I need soon or things I just got from somewhere. (For anyone who's unaware, I do indeed do work at school, just rarely at my own desk. I mostly work in the ( Read more... )