I am really enjoying my new teaching job. It's got my creative juices flowing again. The hardest part is getting up off the floor after sitting criss cross applesauce too long some mornings. We have our first monthly staff meeting and lunch Monday after class.
I woke up to the news about the bomb incident on the tube in London. I texted my daughter to see if she made it to work ok. I knew it wasn't the station she gets on but I didn't know what ones she transfers to. She said the one with the bomb was her old station she used for 6 years when she lived in that part of the city. She did say her old flat mate just missed the explosion this morning.
The weather report for the weekend sounds great. We just got a small effect from Irma. My family got through Irma unscathed when the storm decided to head towards Orlando at the last minute. I think all of them are back to work by now. I wish there weren't so many others who weren't so fortunate.
I walked during DH's doc appointment this afternoon and then we had a lovely bike ride mostly in a marsh. 10k steps@+10 miles. We're overnighting in Indianapolis to ride again tomorrow. A seitan wrap for dinner. Yummy. Yummy.
I walked during DH's doc appointment this afternoon and then we had a lovely bike ride mostly in a marsh. 10k steps@+10 miles. We're overnighting in Indianapolis to ride again tomorrow. A seitan wrap for dinner. Yummy. Yummy.
Back home by 9:30, 30 minutes with my friend, and then an hour walk to our downtown and back.
I needed to gawk at our town's tragedy. We're just 2500 people, and 2 stores in our main block (across the street from our historic courthouse) burned yesterday. One is gone--a huge hole. Another is still standing but will have to be razed. Two others will need total rehab. So sad. Firefighters have been on the scene for more than 24 hours. Of course, we have only volunteer fire departments here. They brought in tankers of water from 3 counties.
It was a spectator sport as we've seldom seen in these parts. Facebook photos delivered the news to those of us who didn't want to join the "party." I hope that the spaces are filled eventually, though our downtown has already been struggling for a decade.
I hope that your cold improves soon; that return to the school cauldron of germs will do it every time. In the dark ages when I started, we had 10 sick days the first year and then 7 after we'd become immune. Hopefully.
Elaine/ret/INBev, thanks, too, for the roll call love. Life changes, doesn't it? You are rocking those steps. Well, not really because that would be sedentary. Wear your bathing suit to WW to be sure. ;)
1. They are to be marked present when they arrive late or leave early
2. Absent students receive credit for in class work as if they were present in class.
2. Questions and answers to quizzes, mid-term and final exam will be provided to students in writing one week prior to testing.
3. Quizzes and exams will be administered "open book".
4. Syllabus provided is unacceptable.
Not going to happen.
All students, not just a few, tell me other teachers provide all the above and create a student friendly syllabus rather that use one provided by college.
Other teachers tell me officially "follow provided syllabus". Unofficially I'm told to "go with the flow". My ethics and desire to prepare students for employment will not permit me to "go with the flow".
Students made it clear I will comply or they go to administration and I'll be fired.
Only 5438 steps, so far. Not feeling up to par this morning, but went to pt workout, ran errands, and took DM to hair appt. Now feel like taking a nap. lol Almost time to return to DMs for dinner and the night. Too much to do and not enough time to do it!! Maybe early bed time for me tonight.
11,80 steps here today. I canned 5 quarts of beets today--from the farmer's market, from a friend, from my garden. That may be my last canning ever. A lot of work for only 5 quarts. On the other hand, they are beautiful. And, they will be tasty on salads this winter.
Many years ago, there was a rule about having classrooms within the same approximate area of same age group.. Is this still such a thing? My principal is wanting to put a 3rd grade classroom in the PK hallway and we were wondering if this was still an issue.
I walked during DH's doc appointment this afternoon and then we had a lovely bike ride mostly in a marsh. 10k steps@+10 miles. We're over...See More