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Yay! I'm on vacation!
Remember the scene in High School Musical X where the bell rings at the end of the last school day, and all the kids pour outside and start a big song and dance number? Or Alice Cooper's "School's Out For Summer ( Read more... ) -
Paradigm shift for Eva's food.
Spedgrad and I went to a pediatrician visit after work. Eva's doing just fine in all aspects. Socialization, mobility, weight, length, and head diameter. Yay ( Read more... ) -
Enjoying Bunker Hill Day off!
It's 7:00 AM, and I'm just sipping coffee and watching Eva play, thanks to this bizarre Boston-only holiday, "Bunker Hill Day". I'm parent-on-duty for the day while Spedgrad works on her portfolio ... but right now, she's working on her sleeping ( Read more... ) -
We're just marching zombies now.
I've called an end to the school year. I'm just showing movies from now until next Friday ( Read more... ) -
Hurray, graduation done!
We had a nice graduation last night. About 40 seniors, which is honestly embarrassing if you consider that the school has about 350 students and you would expect roughly a quarter of them to graduate each year. But accounting for the ones we've lost along the way during their four years of high school, the ones who got held back for a year or two ( Read more... ) -
Aren't we supposed to plan our lessons in units?
And not be wondering, from day to day, whether we'll be teaching a class tomorrow? Aren't we supposed to have continuing threads and multi-day units? Not any longer, not at this school. Each day stands alone ( Read more... ) -
Improvements in the latest version of Glencoe Algebra 2
This version of the textbook and worksheets makes some additional numeric assumptions explicit. For example, they tell you how many cards are in a standard deck (52). The earlier version assumed you knew that.
However, it still assumes you know how many numbersletters are in the alphabet, which at least one of my seniors had trouble with. And ( Read more... ) -
If this were industry, heads would roll.
Finals week has been juggled around ... as announced in email Friday after school. Gee, anybody who doesn't check their school email during the weekends is gonna be a little surprised. Particularly if you thought you were administering a final on Monday and didn't think you needed to prepare lessons for those dates ( Read more... ) -
Random happenings from the end of the year.
Tuesday, at the end of Robotics, a knife fell out of the back pocket of one of my freshmen ("Fayong") while she was picking up her robot. I didn't move or think quickly enough, and I didn't confiscate it. I reported the event to my principal about 6:55 this morning. Period 1, I found her in the principal's office along with another student. The ( Read more... ) -
And the year trickles to an end.
Looks like we won't be shut down for Swine Flu ( Read more... )