I overslept today and woke up at 7:30. School starts at 8:00. You do the math :\ Anyways, I forgot to set my alarm last night and I had to power out of the house this morning. I made it with 3 minutes to spare. Whew!

I went to the Fish Fest yesterday with Matt, Kyle, and Mitch. It was a lot of fun :) Toby Mac and Audio Adrenaline were AWESOME in concert. Hawk Nelson and this new band, Olivia, were great, too. I ended up buying Olivia's CD at the end of the night. There were tons of other bands that played including Kutless, By the Tree, The Peculiar People, oh ( Read more... )

Matt accidentally took the tray from In And Out with him. HA!

I decided to reward a couple of my sudents who have been doing excellent work and just been great overall. So I went to Subway during lunch and bought them some white chocolate macademia cookies. Right before lunch, I placed one cookie on several students' desks with a simple note that read "Keep up the great work!" My kids were pleased to say the ( Read more... )

I got a 4 on TPA Task 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm at APU right now, but I can't remember where anyone lives :\

It's my conference period (free period) right now at Markham, so I thought I'd come online to check my mail and finally update my livejournal. So here it is :) Things have been going well so far since I returned from Christmas vacation. My kids are creating Big Book research reports in my English class and we're learning about the Ancient Hebrews ( Read more... )

I can't believe that I am now officially done with my first 4 months or so as a 6th grade teacher! Time has certainly flown by. As I gathered my belongings and cleaned up my classroom for our 3 week Christmas break, I couldn't help but just stand for a second and think about how much things have changed over the past couple of months. Although I am ( Read more... )

Yesterday was probably the most chaotic day of my life. We had three, yes THREE, lock downs in one day. The first one happened before school even started because some high school kid from a nearby school brought a weapon onto campus. The other two lock downs were due to fights, one of which involved some parents. It seemed as if every time the ( Read more... )

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