Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Monday I walked into the teacher’s lounge and found all the ingredients for make it yourself Italian Sodas. Tuesday the teacher’s lounge was buried in pastries, cookies, cakes, and pies. Wednesday we were treated to a pancake breakfast. The Principal cooked. Thursday I walked into the teacher’s lounge and found [...]
You’ll never guess who called wanting to know when I’d be by to take her shopping. [...]
A burst of laughter caught my attention and I glanced up from my one-on-one writing conference with Jim. Across the room Jake was goofing off. I snapped his name and ordered him to take his pencil from his nostril before he hurt himself. He said, “Yes, Miss,” and complied. A [...]
Okay, confession time, this is what took me to the point of inattentiveness which led to the disasters in yesterday’s post — all of you will know instantly what I didn’t grasp until long after I ran my mouth: Fifth grade has compartmentalized and we are running the last semester [...]
I spent the weekend grading poems so I could do progress reports today — then we went on a field trip I’d forgotten about. Proof I’d forgotten? Not only was my work not sufficently caught up, but I was wearing a skirt and heels. That is not proper field trip [...]