My blog turns one this week. LOL! This is the best relationship I've had in a while!! LOL! LOL!
I felt like I was gone for a month or so. It was actually 11 school days off. I returned to an assembly, an art docent lesson, cleaning out desks, changing seats, and then it was finally my turn to talk around 10:50. This is what we talked about in the following order:
1. Everyone gets a new neon eraser cap and a new Ticonderoga pencil! (Happy New Year gift- and this will guarantee that your writing for the upcoming trimesters meets and exceeds grade level standards).
2. We are going with the Green Peace calendar that my sister has donated to the classroom. I was too depressed about the Raiders last game to even consider hanging a Raiders calendar for 2012. But in the same breath I told them I was soooooo excited to wear one of my Raiders jerseys; Sapp, Kaufman, or Woodson to a Super Bowl party.
3. The highlight (of my vacation) that was classroom appropriate that I could share with them was seeing the Warriors beat the Knicks in Oakland. REPRESENT, West Coast.
4. The highlight that was not classroom appropriate and I could NOT share with them was New Year's Eve, 12:01, Knocti Vista Casino, Pai Gow, Straight Flush, Spades, $150! Although I'm sure there is a way I can get that one into the probability topic.
5. Then I informed them that May 20: Giants giveaway Brian Wilson garden gnome This is right up my alley for a couple of reasons: I have always dreamed of having a garden full of gnomes. Brian Wilson is my all time favorite Giant (after Barry Bonds.) Getting the first gnome that day is one of my short term goals for the 3rd trimester.
Then it was back to reality. The reality of 6th grade math. The reality that I am asking them to solve one and two step equations. I am required to make them do something that I didn't do until 9th grade. I was successful at this in 9th grade, would I have been in 6th? Probably not.
