Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
This blog has been temporarily interrupted due to exhaustion. It will resume it’s regular fair (fare?) of silliness and nonsense after it’s perpetrator (proprietor?) has gotten some much needed sleep. Please, carry on without me. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz [...]
I am sitting in my classroom freezing. Once again there is no heat (second day in a row this time). My students are wrapped within their coats shivering, pencils clutched in sleeve-covered fingers. I just put a call in to the AP and told him we were all going home [...]
Everyday I get a 40 minute prep period, and Mrs. B. takes over my class. My students work on enhancing their writing skills with her. At Thanksgiving time she asked my students to write about a person they were thankful for, and to explain why. The paper below was written [...]
Pansy Petite stops nervously beside my desk and eyes a precarious stack of papers. “Ms. A.,” she says primly, “Would you like me to clean your desk?” “Not really,” I answer. “I know it looks messy, but I actually know where everything is.” She stares at me skeptically for a [...]
Her name was Catherine, but they called her Cat, which suited her personality well. She was the brand new Assistant Principal’s spunky five year-old daughter. It was only the second week of school and I’d already heard enough about her to wonder why her father’s hair wasn’t gray — and [...]