Sunday, May 10, 2009
Weekly thoughts
Two days of alcohol and drug videos is BORING!
8th graders have their own special version of senioritize.
Two year old need naps.
Lynlee and Rylan crying all evening is frustrating.
Lynlee not wanting to wash her hair is even more frustrating.
This all together apparently makes 'mommy scary' according to Lynlee.
She got over it!
The two year old got a nap the next day and no more scary mommy.
Planning lots of fundraisers for the 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk right before you won't be at school for awhile is not a good idea.
Happy to have great co-teachers who help out a lot!
Thankful for all the students who donated on Friday.
PHA is no fun! Glad its over for the year.
Thankful for a husband who gets up in the morning and does the dishes and packs the girls for school.
Sad Rylan didn't pass her hearing test again.
Not too worries since she can hear out of one ear.
Ready to get the next test done.
Thinks its really funny when Ry covers her ears when Lynlee is crying and she is trying to sleep.
Thinks its funny when Lynlee covers her ears when Ry is talking in the morning.
Loves her MOM!!!
Hates it when she forgets appointments and is late to them.
Is really excited to paint her classroom purple.
Wants to try to have exercise balls instead of chairs in her classroom next year.
Loves it when Lynlee sings her ABC's.
Is thankful for her prayer group.
Go see www.blackrockphoto.com
How does it go from 90 on day to 70 the next?
Humidity sucks.
Is so blessed to have the two cutest little girls ever.
Only $500 to go to get to walk and $700 to reach my goal!
Thank you to everyone who donated.
Well there it is in a nutshell. Hope everyone else is doing great!
8th graders have their own special version of senioritize.
Two year old need naps.
Lynlee and Rylan crying all evening is frustrating.
Lynlee not wanting to wash her hair is even more frustrating.
This all together apparently makes 'mommy scary' according to Lynlee.
She got over it!
The two year old got a nap the next day and no more scary mommy.
Planning lots of fundraisers for the 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk right before you won't be at school for awhile is not a good idea.
Happy to have great co-teachers who help out a lot!
Thankful for all the students who donated on Friday.
PHA is no fun! Glad its over for the year.
Thankful for a husband who gets up in the morning and does the dishes and packs the girls for school.
Sad Rylan didn't pass her hearing test again.
Not too worries since she can hear out of one ear.
Ready to get the next test done.
Thinks its really funny when Ry covers her ears when Lynlee is crying and she is trying to sleep.
Thinks its funny when Lynlee covers her ears when Ry is talking in the morning.
Loves her MOM!!!
Hates it when she forgets appointments and is late to them.
Is really excited to paint her classroom purple.
Wants to try to have exercise balls instead of chairs in her classroom next year.
Loves it when Lynlee sings her ABC's.
Is thankful for her prayer group.
Go see www.blackrockphoto.com
How does it go from 90 on day to 70 the next?
Humidity sucks.
Is so blessed to have the two cutest little girls ever.
Only $500 to go to get to walk and $700 to reach my goal!
Thank you to everyone who donated.
Well there it is in a nutshell. Hope everyone else is doing great!
Friday, May 1, 2009
TGIF!!
Thank goodness its Friday! This week has been at least 20 days. I'm not sure how, but I know it has been that long. Let's start with Monday. Aaron and I both woke up late which lead me to walking into school at 8:25. School starts at 8:30. Not exactly a lot of time to get ready for the kiddos. Luckily, I have the two most awesome co-teachers to work with who covered for me till I could get my head on straight. Now what made the rest of the day so long you ask? Jeopardy!! 7 times with huge groups of 8th graders who have their own special version of 'senioritize'. Its so fun! Sense the sarcasm. Well I did make it through Monday without killing any 8th graders so I figure it was a good day. The afternoon flew by way to quickly with the girls and Aaron got home from baseball practice right before I was about to put Lynlee to bed. So he kindly took over and I went to run. I opted for running around the neighborhood that night instead of going to the gym. Note to self, when running my neighborhood, it is best to do the big hill at the beginning of the run and not the end of it! So I eventually did make it back home and wanted to crash, but I got myself up and went to tan and then went to my girls prayer group. I have been so blessed to have the church family here. They are such a special group of girls and they will never know how much I appreciate each and every one of them. So I finally made it to bed around 11 that night. Let me mention that my typical bed time is around 8:30 maybe 9 if I'm feeling like I could steal a few minutes the next morning before I have to get up and start all over.
So Tuesday rolls around and I'm exhausted from staying up late. For those of you who are not in tune with the education world, we had TAKS testing this week. It is the worst test in the world, and puts way to much pressure on the kiddos and the teachers. At any rate, we have the science and history test looming over our heads until Thursday and Friday. So the 8th grade teachers thought it would be a good idea to do a TAKS Camp for the kids on Tuesday and Wednesday. Good idea, bad idea! Good idea for the kids to get a refresher right before this test. Bad idea to not give ourselves any break for 4 days straight! So Tuesday was history day. Fun stuff! My classroom had a matching game. The kids liked it for the most part. And once again, I didn't kill any 8th graders so not a bad day. I had to stay after school that day to get some work done so Aaron went to pick up the girls and he brought them up to school. Reminder to self, not a good idea to bring two kids under the age of 3 up to school in the afternoon when they are both getting tired. That just equals cranky little girls for the evening. That evening is when I heard the term Swine Flu for the first time on the news. I'm still not sure if I should be worried about this or not, but it seems to be hitting a little closer to home than I would like. In the days that follow a district about 25 miles away shut down their schools and all of Ft. Worth shut down their schools. Like I said a little too close to home. There were rumors at one point that all of Texas was going to stop school for a week. Unfortunately that isn't the case yet. I would have loved the break! So back to Tuesday. Aaron is starting up his photography business, Blackrock Photography, and we stayed up way to late working on the business end for it. But I am so excited for him, and the possibilities that come with it. He has a great eye for it and does a great job. But he needs to let me go to bed earlier.
Wednesday, dooms day. Wednesday was the science TAKS camp day. So I had to make sure I was there plenty early to make sure everything was ready and I was available to answer any questions the other teachers might have about their assignments. I actually got to work the earliest I think I have been all year. Me and the other science teachers got everyone else ready to go for the day and it began. In my classroom, we made lava lamps. The kids really enjoyed it, I just hope they got more out of it than just making the lamps. I guess we won't know until we get our results back in a couple weeks. So there was day two of my 4 no rest days. I literally had kids all day except for lunch, which didn't seem that long either of those days. I picked the girls up from school and we went home and hung out with Aaron since they cancelled baseball practice that day. Want to know why? Well all of Texas did postpone all athletic and extra-curricular activities till after May 11th. This means they won't even play their first play-off game till probably May 21st. The good part about all of that is he doesn't have to go do spring football, which would have been even worse.
Thursday... Science TAKS day. I know you are all thinking, whats the big deal. Well the big deal is that our school had such low scores last year, it isn't even really acceptable. We had to file for a waiver this year to be considered acceptable and it was because of the science scores. So this year it really means a lot to have better scores. In fact that is how I even got my job. So it really means a lot for our scores to go up this year. So during TAKS, the teacher gets to do nothing, and I mean NOTHING, the whole time the students test. Oh, except we are required to just walk around the whole time. Let me tell you, this is not fun! In fact, it is down right boring. So really that also gets us to today. Same song different verse. Boring morning while the kids took their test. Long afternoon at the doctor's office. Good news, no infection for Ry. This evening has been good. Me and the girls got home a little earlier than normal, thanks to Ry having to go to the doctor, so we took advantage and played hard. Both girls pretty much crashed when it was their bed time, and I'm not far behind them.
So Tuesday rolls around and I'm exhausted from staying up late. For those of you who are not in tune with the education world, we had TAKS testing this week. It is the worst test in the world, and puts way to much pressure on the kiddos and the teachers. At any rate, we have the science and history test looming over our heads until Thursday and Friday. So the 8th grade teachers thought it would be a good idea to do a TAKS Camp for the kids on Tuesday and Wednesday. Good idea, bad idea! Good idea for the kids to get a refresher right before this test. Bad idea to not give ourselves any break for 4 days straight! So Tuesday was history day. Fun stuff! My classroom had a matching game. The kids liked it for the most part. And once again, I didn't kill any 8th graders so not a bad day. I had to stay after school that day to get some work done so Aaron went to pick up the girls and he brought them up to school. Reminder to self, not a good idea to bring two kids under the age of 3 up to school in the afternoon when they are both getting tired. That just equals cranky little girls for the evening. That evening is when I heard the term Swine Flu for the first time on the news. I'm still not sure if I should be worried about this or not, but it seems to be hitting a little closer to home than I would like. In the days that follow a district about 25 miles away shut down their schools and all of Ft. Worth shut down their schools. Like I said a little too close to home. There were rumors at one point that all of Texas was going to stop school for a week. Unfortunately that isn't the case yet. I would have loved the break! So back to Tuesday. Aaron is starting up his photography business, Blackrock Photography, and we stayed up way to late working on the business end for it. But I am so excited for him, and the possibilities that come with it. He has a great eye for it and does a great job. But he needs to let me go to bed earlier.
Wednesday, dooms day. Wednesday was the science TAKS camp day. So I had to make sure I was there plenty early to make sure everything was ready and I was available to answer any questions the other teachers might have about their assignments. I actually got to work the earliest I think I have been all year. Me and the other science teachers got everyone else ready to go for the day and it began. In my classroom, we made lava lamps. The kids really enjoyed it, I just hope they got more out of it than just making the lamps. I guess we won't know until we get our results back in a couple weeks. So there was day two of my 4 no rest days. I literally had kids all day except for lunch, which didn't seem that long either of those days. I picked the girls up from school and we went home and hung out with Aaron since they cancelled baseball practice that day. Want to know why? Well all of Texas did postpone all athletic and extra-curricular activities till after May 11th. This means they won't even play their first play-off game till probably May 21st. The good part about all of that is he doesn't have to go do spring football, which would have been even worse.
Thursday... Science TAKS day. I know you are all thinking, whats the big deal. Well the big deal is that our school had such low scores last year, it isn't even really acceptable. We had to file for a waiver this year to be considered acceptable and it was because of the science scores. So this year it really means a lot to have better scores. In fact that is how I even got my job. So it really means a lot for our scores to go up this year. So during TAKS, the teacher gets to do nothing, and I mean NOTHING, the whole time the students test. Oh, except we are required to just walk around the whole time. Let me tell you, this is not fun! In fact, it is down right boring. So really that also gets us to today. Same song different verse. Boring morning while the kids took their test. Long afternoon at the doctor's office. Good news, no infection for Ry. This evening has been good. Me and the girls got home a little earlier than normal, thanks to Ry having to go to the doctor, so we took advantage and played hard. Both girls pretty much crashed when it was their bed time, and I'm not far behind them.
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