56 days is sooner than you think

                                                                          

So we now have 56 days of school left - the kids think that it will be forever, but the end comes very fast.  We have WesTest testing that takes up a week, then we have 2 days of school, and then we have finals for a week - so even though there are 56 days, there really are only about 46 days.
This has been my best teaching year so far.  I have really enjoyed all of my classes and alll (mostly all) of my kids.  (There are a few VERY immature 9th graders that really are annoying!)

                                                              

What a past few weeks

Here I am again...not have blogged twice a week like I said that I was going to do, but the past 4 weeks have been CRAZY....I have worked every night for the past 4 weeks plus every Sat (except the one when we had mid-year training for Globaloria).  I leave school at 3:15, take my daughter home, and head out for work, trying to get there around 4ish....then I work until 11:00 or later...or much later....

I get home anywhere from 11:15 - 12:00, then it takes me a little while to "chill"  and then I get up at 3:31 to walk Princess, my Cairn-Terrior/Chahuahua mix.  Four weeks of such craziness...I spend all day Sunday getting ready to teach school the following week :(                                                                   

Important Visitors :)

I am SOoooo excited!  I received a phone call from Debbi Super on Wednesday asking what our school was doing for Digital Day.  I told her that I had spoken with a gentleman from the Charleston Gazzett and had sent letters home to the parents.  She then told me the govenor Gaston Caperton and Gayle Mansion wanted to visit a Globaloria classroom and she wondered if our school would host them!!!  I was beyond excited!!!

                

Why Links? Did you guys not listen?

                                                                        

Ok, as I was reading over my students' blogs yesterday I noticed several that said things like "We have to have 5 links - I don't know what to link to, so here are 5 random links", and I am thinking, have you not been listening.

                                                 

 So...we went over (again) what makes a rich blog and looked at rich blogs and plain blogs and how different they were. So then I assigned two more blogs, one to explain what a rich blog is (and it had to be a rich blog), and then another blog on anything they wished and they were to demonstrate to me (through their blog) that they understood what a rich blog was.  These blogs are not due until Sunday, so I am anxious to see how they did :)

Ready for Second Semester?

                                                                                                                                           

88 days left until the end of the school year!  It is hard to believe that the time has gone by so quickly.  I have 3 Globaloria classes this year and for the most part they are all really good.  I have a couple of students that refuse to work and therefore failed the class - I think that two of them dropped the class.  They had heard that it was an easy class, etc, so they thought it would be a piece of cake....

Now I am worried about next year.  When the memo from Deb Super came out telling us that we would need to pay $20,000     I knew that it was all over.  I gave copies of the memos to our principal, Mr. Aulenbacher, but he didn't say anything about it.  Then Deb sent out the other memo saying that the WorldWideWorkshop people would help us get the rest of the money if we would just commit what we could.  I went to speak with Mr. Aulenbacher about it and the only thing he said was that we couldn't afford $20,000....so I am worried about us being able to offer it next year.  That will make me really sad - and a lot of my kids who want to take it again next year.

Resolution? Really...

OK - so one of my personal resolutions was to blog twice a week. I blogged on the first and now it is the 14.....so I have already blown it....but, as we always do with the kids - I get a second chance. So, here I am again, trying to blog twice a week.

                                                
It might get a little easier - How? I am at one of my 3 part time jobs and I expected that Blogger would be blocked (Our school wiki is blocked since it is "games related"), but to my surprise, it is not. So, I have been here since 8:30 a.m. and will be here until 5:00 p.m. every Saturday (except next week, we have out training Webinar), so now I can at least blog every Saturday. And starting Monday, I will be here every night, 4:30 until 10:00, for the next 3 weeks....so hopefully there will be some good blogging hours.

                                               

Happy New Year

Happy 2012!!!!

Last year was the worst year of my life - so many terrible things going on in my personal life, which of course, impacted every aspect of my life - my work, my friendships...

Today is the first day of 2012 and I begin it by blogging - I have MANY goals for this year.....not the usual kinds like losing weight or exercising every day - I have some real, attainable, NEEDED goals that I am going to meet this year. MANY are for Globaloria....blogging at least twice a week, keeping better in touch with my mentees,....so, I started to attain this goal by blogging today....

I have great hopes for this year!!!