Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, work 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, Autumn Fest [school carnival] 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning, Sidewalk Sunday School’s season opener 1:00 p.m. until ?, Saturday afternoon, 5th grade teacher’s planning conference Sunday 9:15 a.m. church Sunday 1:00 p.m. church, Pastor [...]
I was standing in front of my class today talking to them about rounding numbers. I stepped backward to use the whiteboard and fell. One second I was standing. The next I was staring at the cealing. The only explanation I have for this is thick air. Somebody dropped a [...]
All fifth grade students at our school keep check registers. They earn “credits” for good behavior and are assessed “debits” for bad behavior. Today as we came in from lunch I asked the class to get ready for Science. Most of them were so excited about the idea (not) that [...]
Some days you’re the windshield; Some days you’re the bug. I went to work this morning without my lunch. That wouldn’t have been too bad, but I’d elected to skip breakfast and was rather hungry by lunch time. I decided that my forgetfulness deserved rewarding, so I hopped in the [...]
I have 20 kids in my reading class. Everyday I try to read one-on-one with 4 or 5 of them. While I am listening to their peers read, the remainder of the class has assignments to complete. They should be busy and productive, but it doesn’t always happen. There was [...]