Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Math class. Order of Operations. I explain PEMDAS, we work several problems together on the white board as a class. I give the students an assignment to work on in small groups. Almost immediately I go to group 3 to help somebody with a problem. From across the room, Rico [...]
We are having Parent-Teacher Conferences this week. This semester the reading teachers are meeting with the parents of the students in their reading class. Last semester I was teaching 5th graders who were reading on 4th grade level. I am truly enjoying these conferences because most of my students made [...]
The school provides a free breakfast to every student, every morning in their classrooms. Tuesday they served Frosted Flakes, milk, cheese sticks and fruit cocktail. I said, “Frosted Flakes! I don’t think I’ve had those since I was a fifth grader. How do they taste?” The whole class looked at [...]
I was sick and missed three days of school last week. Normally I work when I’m sick, but the vertigo pretty much assured I had to stay still. I went into work briefly on Wednesday, but left for a doctor’s appointment. I went into work briefly on Thursday, but was [...]
If you have vertigo, and insist on living your life as usual, expect to embarrass yourself — and expect people to laugh at you. Today in the teacher’s lounge I was walking south while looking north and talking over my shoulder. I turned forward just in time to miss the [...]