is it biannual, or semiannual?

I guess real life gets in the way of all this online stuff. At least I remembered my password.

Ironically, not much has been happening. Robotics came to an end last semester; administration switched me to a section of pre-calculus, which I'm perfectly happy to teach. After five years doing the same thing, it's nice to stretch a bit.

I've done a lot. Three weeks on the west coast, including a cruise to Alaska. Two one-week AP and pre-AP classes, positioning myself to be senior math teacher in year-after-next. (Rumor has it that senior teacher will be retiring after this year). About a week on the beach, if you add up days. And now I'm doing random web surfing. Here's ( Read more... )

It sure looks like students have been messing around in my briefcase.
A "missing" packet of work has appeared in it, my teacher guide to the current chapter has vanished, and I now am in the possession of four copies of the city grade 9-10 math assessment as well as two copies of the city exam for English, grade 10.

Hard to believe! Jan 28th will mark the end of second quarter, and halfway through the school year! The rest will just fly by now, with Feb break knocking a hunk out of second quarter, and spring break similarly disrupting third quarter. And after spring break anyway, it's just downhill until summer and we really don't expect much of the kids ( Read more... )

It would be really nice if our principal would inform us about the schedule for Wednesday. Monday's all gone now. Happily, I assumed that nothing meaningful would happen on the early-release day before Thanksgiving, so I planned for a regular lesson today and tests on Tuesday. I'm Xeroxed and ready to go. On Wednesday, maybe we'll have regular ( Read more... )

Hurray! I've just closed on a refinance for the house ... 4% fixed, for 15 years. Between lowering the interest rate and extending the time of the loan, this means a couple hundred dollars in our collective pockets which can go to a hypothetical House 2 as Eva gets bigger ... and we consider school systems. :-/

So I've just discovered that our school will be giving the PSAT to all sophomores and juniors on Wednesday morning, and freshmen will be attending an assembly. This clobbers three-quarters of the school for three out of five periods on Wednesday. Adding to the confusion of what was already a shortened week due to Columbus day, the Wednesday and ( Read more... )

And here we go, for the first day of school. Sort of. One teacher planning day, then students on Wednesday, for what will probably be mostly an extended homeroom and paperwork. Two "real" potential days of school on Thursday and Friday; I'll do introductions and group activities on Thursday and a diagnostic test on Friday. I'm teaching the same ( Read more... )

I've just heard my daughter say, "I wanna see the monkeys fly outta daddy's butt!"