This week certainly had some surprises, starting off on Monday morning. Having been extremely lucky, or so I thought, with a five-day assignment in 4th grade, I was a little surprised when the phone rang early Monday. Uh-oh. Yep, job canceled. It seems the school decided to use “one of their own” since it was […]
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I bookended my three days in elementary (Tuesday was in a mentally impaired classroom) with middle-school jobs at the same school. Monday I subbed for a specialty teacher who teaches a course about cultures. I am not sure what it entails, but is a separate course from the normal history/social studies courses. Being a specialty
While we’re on the military theme (see last post), I should mention yesterday. I subbed at the school with the ELL troubles, right next door to that very room. That was enough to turn a bad day into a much better one, in other words- no problems. It was all eighth grade this time, and
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Sa- a deer, a female deer Re- a drop of golden sun Ga- a name I call myself Ma- a long, long way to run Pa- a needle pulling thread Dha- a note to follow pa Ni- a drink with jam and bread Hmm. Something doesn’t seem quite right there. On Friday, I, along with
I’m just looking to see what sort of age groups you might be interested in teaching if you ever decided to teach. Feel free to choose more than one. You will note that there is some overlap in grades since not everyone defines the categories the same way. For example, in some places middle school
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School Picture Guy- a recurring guest star in Lincoln Peirce’s comic strip Big Nate, a strip nearly as old as the Simpsons. He doesn’t appear much these days in his primary role meaning I had to go back to 2007 to find this one, skipping past roles as a deejay and a news photographer. But
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Well, it’s been awhile since my last work-related post. I finally got season 4 of The Office from my library and have been watching it. For those who don’t remember back that far 😛 , Ryan, who was the temp at the Scranton, PA office is now Michael’s boss, and is trying to make many
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Well, I have been on the early shift for the last couple of days and I just have to say that that, coupled with my tendency to not sleep through the night, makes for one tired teacher. Yesterday I had it easy. I left to a temperature outside over 40º colder than it was the
Marley and who? Not me. Read More »
I have been doing a lot of catching up on TV shows lately. This has eaten into my available time to write in this blog. That, and my interest is sort of lagging right now. I now have several DVDs I checked out of the library in addition to several hours of TV shows I
Monday: 5th grade. Location: my hometown, same school as last week’s PE assignment. This wasn’t my favorite fifth grade assignment, but it was still a good day. The day started with specials. As I subbed for PE last week, I knew a little bit of the schedule so I expected this. It’s always nice to
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