Grrrr on continued talking and chattiness today. 6-3 had 2 very bad transitions. Frowny faces. Stem-and-leaf plots are very easy, thankfully, so I think everyone got it ( Read more... )

1/8 of the way through the school year! Actually, it's closer to 1/6, but Progress Reports were supposed to go out today, so it's technically 1/8 ( Read more... )

Electoral College didn't go over so well.

Progress Reports are done.

Lockdown packet tomorrow.

Need food. Now.

6-3 is getting on my last nerve. Partially my fault for not having extra work to do after the test. I'll know better next time, but still.

Now I have to grade the darn things :(

Got things back under control (mostly) today with a game. Test tomorrow. 6-3 has lunch detention for 2 days for coming into my room wrong and being noisy in the hallway.

Deliverables due today. Didn't get the Math Museum done, but everything else was OK. I think. Sigh.

Lots of grading to do tonight. And I have to write the test. Sigh.

Grrrrrr....

Woke up late (7:50) got to school at 8:05. Managed to prep just enough to run the lesson, but students did not respond. It's like a no-win situation. If I talk too much, they don't listen. If I give them work to do on their own, they talk and don't do it.

Can't write more - must do Benchmark Analyses now. Grrrr....

I don't want to talk about it. Full moon affects children weirdly ( Read more... )

Background: Our interdisciplinary theme for the first quarter is the election. Thus, all my BCRs (Brief Constructed Responses) feature something about presidential politics, usually Barack Obama (he's the "sponsor" of our "house"). We were doing today's BCR as a Do Now, when this came up ( Read more... )

Six more kids had Lunch Detention today ( Read more... )

Just a lot of chattiness today. Otherwise, pretty good.

Visitors today were fine. New seating arrangement that I will try tomorrow.

Arrived early today - was good.

Tired, and need to do flipchart and new seating chart. Le sigh.