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If you are a parent and a teacher, there are blessings and curses. The blessings are having the same schedule as your kids and thus in many instances not having to pay for extend-a-care.
But it also means that when you have work to do, you sometimes don't get to it until 10 pm, when you're too tired to function.
Take note: your health is more important than school stuff. Ok, yes, I stay up too late too many nights (or get up too early), but you have to also stop and say, SLEEP IS MORE IMPORTANT.
So, after this, I'm heading off to bed.
How did today go? I felt discombobulated. (Did I spell that right?) Nothing goes smoothly on day one. Someone asked about what I put on my index cards--see the reply I made to that comment. The gist of it was that it isn't what I ask for but how they reply--let's you know if you have a class of readers or non-English speakers or something in between. And one kid had an email handle of "finebethatway" which cracks me up! (Very few kids had email. Very few.)
I'm not sure what I'm doing for 3rd period at the very beginning (Exploratory) because for warm-ups for that class I often do mottoes, but my motto sheet disappeared! (Just numbered lines, a place for the Latin, a place for the English.) So I just made a new one. With luck, I can photocopy it in the a.m.
I only half know what I'm doing in Teen Leadership. I've decided for a warm-up prompt to described the last time they DISrespected a brother or sister, why, a how they reasoned that he/she deserved the disrespect. I think I'm going to join in on these. I tell the kids who are siblings that if I ever call them by their sibling's name that I'll give them a quarter. After all, I said to one set of sisters today at lunch, I would never want to be called by my sister's name. That was DISrespect. So, perhaps I need to analyze why I did that and offer her up a bit more respect. I think it will be easier in some ways to come at Respect from DISrespect.
But tomorrow is more procedures (Wong style... get the book if you don't have it). It's dull in a way though I try not to make it dull and part of me would love to dive right into the book and start. But you know what? I'd rather still have control of my classes next March and April. I'm happy to sacrifice "fun" for the first few days anyway.
I may drive off a few with my procedures that are half in Latin tomorrow. HA! I think I put a bunch of pdf files online... let's see.... yup.. go here if you care:
http://www.txclassics.org/latinpolicies.htm. The procedures is the 2nd document.
Did I have a point to this note?? (soooo tired)
Perhaps it's just to show that the first week of school can produce anxiety even when things go ok.
I just felt so short of time, and I messed up going to lunch a little (left too early/at a bell that was 10 minutes early), but was't alone.
These things all work out.
They do.
yup.
yawn....
bed
But it also means that when you have work to do, you sometimes don't get to it until 10 pm, when you're too tired to function.
Take note: your health is more important than school stuff. Ok, yes, I stay up too late too many nights (or get up too early), but you have to also stop and say, SLEEP IS MORE IMPORTANT.
So, after this, I'm heading off to bed.
How did today go? I felt discombobulated. (Did I spell that right?) Nothing goes smoothly on day one. Someone asked about what I put on my index cards--see the reply I made to that comment. The gist of it was that it isn't what I ask for but how they reply--let's you know if you have a class of readers or non-English speakers or something in between. And one kid had an email handle of "finebethatway" which cracks me up! (Very few kids had email. Very few.)
I'm not sure what I'm doing for 3rd period at the very beginning (Exploratory) because for warm-ups for that class I often do mottoes, but my motto sheet disappeared! (Just numbered lines, a place for the Latin, a place for the English.) So I just made a new one. With luck, I can photocopy it in the a.m.
I only half know what I'm doing in Teen Leadership. I've decided for a warm-up prompt to described the last time they DISrespected a brother or sister, why, a how they reasoned that he/she deserved the disrespect. I think I'm going to join in on these. I tell the kids who are siblings that if I ever call them by their sibling's name that I'll give them a quarter. After all, I said to one set of sisters today at lunch, I would never want to be called by my sister's name. That was DISrespect. So, perhaps I need to analyze why I did that and offer her up a bit more respect. I think it will be easier in some ways to come at Respect from DISrespect.
But tomorrow is more procedures (Wong style... get the book if you don't have it). It's dull in a way though I try not to make it dull and part of me would love to dive right into the book and start. But you know what? I'd rather still have control of my classes next March and April. I'm happy to sacrifice "fun" for the first few days anyway.
I may drive off a few with my procedures that are half in Latin tomorrow. HA! I think I put a bunch of pdf files online... let's see.... yup.. go here if you care:
http://www.txclassics.org/latinpolicies.htm. The procedures is the 2nd document.
Did I have a point to this note?? (soooo tired)
Perhaps it's just to show that the first week of school can produce anxiety even when things go ok.
I just felt so short of time, and I messed up going to lunch a little (left too early/at a bell that was 10 minutes early), but was't alone.
These things all work out.
They do.
yup.
yawn....
bed
