Well hello end of year prep

Yesterday my student came up to me in 7th period and said "Miss, did you get in a fight this weekend?!" To which I replied, "Of course not, why?" (but I did just discover a softball sized bruise on my leg that has yet to be explained) Back to the story - He and another student proceeded to comment on how my eye looked all purple underneath.

You know its bad when the kids think bags under your eyes are from getting punched in the face.

So what did I proceed to do? Work at school until 8pm last night on end of year test prep.

Miss- LETS RACE!

Today my students completed a "lab" where they used Oreo cookies to show the phases of the moon. After having completed this lab with 5 periods my last class of the day is working on matching their cookies to their notes when a student goes "MISS-LET'S RACE!"

What did I do?

I took out an Oreo, twisted it in half, told a student to count off 1-2-3 and I started licking. It became rather entertaining as students were cheering like we were about to throw down and fight in the hallway. After a few glorious minutes I came out the victor.

What a start to my week.

Ms. W the Math Teacher

I'm going to do my best to revive this poor blog.

Here goes-

Today we had one of the least productive faculty meetings to date. We are beginning to have our TAKS tutorials running from 1:30-3:30 on Wednesdays and cutting out early release starting next week. In order to facilitate these tutorials we needed to come up with a plan. Today we spent 1 1/2 hrs not creating a real plan. I did, however, offer up my stellar math skills to help out the kiddos who need math tutorials. So, starting next week I will now be rocking both math and science.

I'm actually very excited.

My two bests captured perfectly on film.

ha.

love.

Sorry for the iphone quality photos in low light but I couldn't resist the most quintessential photos of my two favorite people in my favorite boston hot spot.

xxx

USA Project

Today my students began a project where they will road tripping across the USA and they got to pick three cities to visit. My seventh period began with this -

"Miss why didn't you do Europe?! I wanna go to Tokyo!"

"But J- Tokyo isn't in Europe"

"Yeah Yeah I mean I wanna go to China"

"But J- China isn't in Europe"

"No, miss I wanna go to Tokyo in China"

"J- Tokyo isn't in China"

"Oh."

This only got worse as I began showing them the location of places like Seattle and Chicago and then they asked "Miss, where is Houston?" uh oh.

This is why we need social studies in school, plain and simple.

Are you KIDDING me?

On a regular basis my kids come up to me in the beginning of class saying "MISS! My binder is missing! Someone took it!" To which I always respond. "Nobody is taking your binder you probably just missed it when you looked. Have a seat and I will find it when everyone else has gotten their binders."

So today appeared to be just another day-

"MISS! I can't find my binder" - Student 1.

"Ok have a seat and I will find it when everyone is seated" - Ginge

"MISS! My binder is GONE!" - Student 2.

"Its okay. Calm down. Just have a seat" - Ginge

.....students are milling around the windows where the shelves of binders are located.....

"MISS! My binder is gone too!" - Student 3

"Ok WHAT is going on here"- Ginge

"MISS I SEE THEM! THEY ARE ON THE ROOF!" - Student 4

"WHAT!? HAVE A SEAT. NOW!"

Yes, someone in my class today decided it would be BRILLIANT to throw students' binders out of the window and down onto the roof below. As if these kids weren't driving me crazy already.

Quotes to keep me going.

Last night in my certification class I was given a paper with this quote on it. It now hangs up next to my desk:

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.