August 2008 - Posts
I’m excited to report a 1.3 pound weight loss this week. I’m sure it could have been better, but I didn’t go to the gym. I was so zapped after school everyday and I just wasn’t interested and thought I didn’t have the energy
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Someone shared with me a link to another blog that gave me some heavy criticism. At first, I tried to dismiss it b/c everyone has opinions and thats why they got their own blog space–they are experts on themselves and their world. But as I sat here
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Again, I’d like a personal assistant or husband. Any ideas on how to get either when you are on a teacher’s salary? So, tonight, I’ll just give myself a hug and pat myself on the back and tell myself that it’ll be okay and tomorrow
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I feel like I must qualify myself based on the comments received from my last posts: I am NOT by no means blaming my woes with my freshman on the middle school teachers. I believe that their are A LOT a of systemic and home issues that interfere with
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I wanted to thank everyone for all of the positive feedback I recieved as the new year started. I still beleive that its going to be a fabulous year! I am not trying to be a negative Nelly, but as I assessed my students today, here are some of my concerns:
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I had an absolute FANTASTIC first day back to school. Here are the highlights: When I got up this morning, I put on the outfit that I’d laid out last night. I hated it. So, I changed the bottoms, but b/c I’d gotten up extra early, it didn’t
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This morning I felt like I need to get a lot of my chest b/c I need to clear my head so that I can work. The following is a rant. . . a sleep deprived rant . . . I got all of 4 hours sleep last night. It’s so hard to sleep when you have so much
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Everyone who reads my blog knows that I am the typo and mispelling QUEEN! I need someone to help me proof my classroom procedures before I publish them to my students and parents. Please review them and send any corrections to me, so that I can get them
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I finished my clasroom. I wanted to post comments with the pictures, but it too much work in wordpress. So, I just made a slide show. If you have any questions, ask. . . and I’ll try to provide further explanation.
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So tonight, while I was watching SYTYCD finale, I decided to make the page for my assignment book. The goal is to make the job easy for a student to do without a much training, but also comprehensive enough for those absent students. So I am begging for
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Here’s why: Professional development was over at 11 for us to go back and work in our classrooms. But our department voted and agreed that we would go home and work on our lesson plans especially since most of us had been putting in late hours to
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One minute, I am excited about the promise of a new year. Next minute, I am tense about the promise of new year. Another minute, I am grumpy about the promise of new year. Later, I’ m nervous about the promise of new year. Today, I experienced the
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wiped. exhausted. fried. zapped. and feeling like a dead piece of meat. and grumpy. I left school at about 6:15 b/c I was so tired I wasn’t accomplishing anything. B/c I’m on that stinking Weight Watchers, I have to fix a healthy dinner. So,
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I have insomnia. I’m too worked up about starting a new year to sleep. I am a nervous nellie tonight, but I’m proud b/c I haven’t been in the kitchen snacking. Instead, I’ve been sitting here working on school stuff. How do your
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Tomorrow, is my last day of vacation. I have to report back to school for a new year on Monday. Here are some things I am thinking about as I go back: I am so nervous. I don’t know why, either. Maybe, its because I didn’t get any planning
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