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I stayed late at school today for a meeting on Max. His parents were there, as were a social worker, a psychologist, a therapist, a special ed administrator, an occupational therapist, a physical therapist, Miss Nelson, and me. We all agreed that he is
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The weather was wacky today. Started off warm and steamy, then the temperature plummeted. Rained all day. Perhaps it was affecting the children, as a few of them had a rough time. One child — who has never acted this way before — started acting
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I didn’t post most of last week because I was having migraines most of last week. Imitrex, which usually works really well, failed to keep them from coming back. On Friday I woke up with a killer headache at 4:30 am, and imitrex failed to work competely.
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This weekend I had my sons look for spiders. They caught two, which I brought to school Monday morning in a plastic cup. On my way in the building I found a small beetle, which I added to the cup. I transferred my new friends to the terrarium, and at
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Yesterday was David’s last day with us. He was hardly in the room at all; Nan kept taking him out to “take a break,” and she told me she wasn’t going to push it, as she could tell he wouldn’t be able to handle being in the
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Nan got a new job. She is now going to use the master’s degree in social work which made her wayyyy over-qualified to be working in my room as a special ed assistant. I am happy for her, because it’s a great opportunity for her and she’ll
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Yes, Harold and the Purple Crayon. It may be beloved to some, but it has freaked me out since I was very young. To this day when I read it I am filled with existential dread. Harold is the only “real” person in a world of nothingness. Everything
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There were five adults in my room today. the school psychologist had his hands full with Max Nan had her hands full with David my college volunteer had her hands full with the Spanish-speaking kids my new assistant had her hands full just trying to get
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Lola went to art today, on Black Day, to draw pictures with white crayon on black paper. I had stencils for city buildings with window cutouts, so she made a lovely picture with lots of buildings. Then she cut it into lots of small pieces. Was this frustration?
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Our school psychologist, one of the many people who helped make the decision on David’s placement, stopped by today after the children left to see how things were going. It was a rough morning, of course, with Nan having to give David and Max all
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The worst is behind me. I’m pretty sure about that. This week is a short week, to fit in parent conferences. That always helps. I will finally have an assistant teacher — hooray! She starts Tuesday, and I can’t wait. She was so awesome
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David will go to another school, to a classroom better suited to his needs. I learned some things about his personal life, and felt like crying. I feel like crying anyway, since I was unable to help him, and it will hurt him to have to leave us. But I
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Anyone reading this who is already a teacher (I know I have some fledgling teachers reading this blog, as well as some non-teachers) knows what teaching is like. Teachers are well-acquainted with the experiences of being bombarded by stimuli all day,
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David kicked Max in the face as hard as he could, twice. Nan managed to grab him as he was trying for a third attempt. He has been suspended and won’t be back until Thursday. We are having a meeting to discuss the situation on Friday morning, and
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Alas, it was another difficult morning. Most of the hour I had before school started I was at a tech meeting in the computer lab, where we learned how to do a behavior screener on each child. I got all mine done — which was good — but only
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