Thanks to my fabulous friend Carla who is visiting from Seattle this weekend, my car that I bought in September finally has a name!!

Minnie Pearl...

I never took the airbag warning tag off of the glove box, like Minnie Pearl never took the price tag off her hat. Its a great name for a car I think!

All of my posters and hanging things in my classroom are falling off the walls and I could care less if they get put back up or not. Most of the time, I don't even bother to pick them up off the floor...I just let the cleaning crew sweep them away...haha

30 more days!!!!

You are in the teacher's lounge eating lunch and you and all the other teachers are laughing so hard that you are crying, then you stop to think about it, and you all realize that you have no idea why you are laughing or what you are laughing at.

Yesterday, one of my students was playing with a Teletubbie action figure. (We watch Teletubbies daily in my class because it seems to have a calming effect on some of my most severe bahavior problems.) This boy was making "quack" sounds while holding this action figure. Suddenly, from across the room, I hear another boy shout "Thats not a duck ( Read more... )

Go here to see pictures of my classroom!!!

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I am in the ever so cosmopolitan paper The Millington Star today!!! As usual, it looks like I am cracking up some people and completely terrifying others!! Check it out!

http://www.millingtonstar.com/articles/2006/08/02/education/3.txt

If I, in my infinite wisdom that will come as I develop as a teacher over this year, am asked to give new teachers coming on board advice next year, it will be this...Make sure you have pleanty of velcro. In fact, go ahead and buy stock in Velcro because you will spend so much on Velcro that stocks will rise so high even Martha Stewart will want ( Read more... )

Stanley, my dog that I've had since the sixth grade, is being put to sleep. Last night, I was making fun of people who grieve for lost pets, but today, I am that person. I have known Stanley for twelve years now. Thats longer than I have known any of my friends, longer than I ever lived in one place, and older than any of my students ( Read more... )

I was invited to spend the day at the school I will be working at this fall today. I went, and as soon as I walked in the door, the assistant principal ran up to me and gave me a big hug and told me how excited she was that I was there! Then, we went to find the principal, and she asked if she could hug me, and then told me how excited she was ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting at my compueter early this afternoon looking at things that some would say are less than holy, when I get the biggest shock I have ever had (literally ( Read more... )