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I survived
Well, I survived the first round of report cards. For some reason, this board has decided to be on the forefront of technology, and had it's report cards online. This is nice, becasue I can wokr on my reports at home, instead of staying late at school, but is not nice because it only lets me put ina final mark and comments, it have no way to keep ( Read more... ) -
update
Well, it has been a while since I've written anything here. I kind of abandoned livejournal for a while and did the facebook thing, but if everyone else is going to use this again too, I might as well.
Jay and are living in Hanover now. We moved in September and I started teaching again. It's another LTO, and I'm almost glad it is. I have one ( Read more... ) -
better year
Well, this is turning out to be a better job hunting year than last year. It's the end of May and I have an interview already. Granted, it is supposed to be on Friday at 12:30, and I am taking half of my current school on a field trip that day. I will have to see if I can re-schedule.
I have already applied to a whole whack of jobs, but this is ( Read more... ) -
something in the air?
I have to wonder if there's something in the air, or maybe in the water in Lindsay. Lately, all of the kids are nuts. Twice today I had to tell them that my classroom is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship and I tell them what to do.
I have one class of music that is on their second instrument ban in as many months. And another that I'd just ( Read more... ) -
walmart
As much as I hate Walmart here in Richmond Hill, Mom told me that the flyer had the shoes I was looking for for our wedding. Against my better judgement, I went in to look. Finally, I found them. And for a heck of a lot less than the same shoes are on for at Soft Moc. I got knockoff skechers for $19.92 instead of real ones for $89.99. What a ( Read more... ) -
how to help
I am struggling with this right now. How to help. How do you help a kid write an essay. How do you help 26 kids write an essay? I know how I write an essay, I can tell them that. I don't know how they write an essay. Neither do they, this is the first one. I thought I had spelled it out. all they have to do is fill in the boxes. Put the ( Read more... ) -
i hate snow days
I know, not exactly what you'd expect. I hate snow days. In the past 4 weeks, we have had 3 snow days. I have missed 3 of my past 4 computer lab days with my class. how are they supposed to finish their presentations if they're never there the days we get to work on them. Today, I was supposed to collect essay outlines. Two kids showed up, ( Read more... ) -
snow
Well, I let myself be talked into driving to Richmond Hill last night. Jay thought that I should come Tuesday instead of Wednesday, because he thought it was going to snow too much for me to make it on valentines day ( Read more... ) -
snow
Well, we had another snow day today. I hate snow days. I had a whopping 2 students in my class this morning. By the time school started after lunch, I had 0 students. Today I had booked my class into the computer lab to make up for the day we missed on the last day. And we missed it again. My plan to be over and done with my Holocaust unit ( Read more... )