Exhausted mania

Okay so the students are sending me home exhausted every day because they have so much energy and I have to constantly remind them that they need to settle down. (I fell asleep Friday night at 6:30 only to wake up at 8:30 get some grocery shopping done and then fell back asleep!) Heck I understand because we now only have 1.5 days left of school!! Hurray! I get antsy too, but I have to be the adult and quite them down. I just now only have to make it through the next 1.5 days and I am finished teaching junior high!

I have not officially heard, but I will be teaching 3rd grade next year (the school board approved me, but my principal has not said anything). I am so excited, I get the younger students who still like their teacher and think school is the best! Such a change from my junior high students.

So as I am winding down this school year, I am busy putting together their memory books. I am at the moment putting together collages of pictures throughout the school year of my students. I then take the (hopefully two pages) and get them printed off at Staples where I will bind them together with a book of memories that we have been putting together at school. The last thing that I need the students to do is write nice comments about their classmates. This is something that I started three years ago and the students absolutely love it! We do this on the computer and rotate until every student has mentioned something nice about that person. I then print off all of the comments and bind them in their book. They will receive their book on Wednesday and on the very last page there is a section that they can sign each others book. Something that they all enjoy.

On a side my note my digital camera went kaput. (Rather it was dropped one too many times) These are the types of pictures that the camera takes now:

I really enjoy the side light! I was hoping to put it off for another month before I go to Germany but it looks like that was not the plan for the camera. So I am going to Best Buy today to look and maybe buy. The current kaput model was one that I had I got for my birthday when digital cameras first came out. It was a 3.2 mega pixel and takes (or rather eats) four double AA batteries. The cost for such a thing was around $300 and today you could probably get it for 50 bucks. Kinda sad if you ask me. Oh well I can upgrade the mega pixels and not be charged an arm and a leg! How fun!!!

What a day!

After the dream I had this morning I think I should have stayed in bed. I was driving along in my dream and it was a beautiful sunny day and then all of a sudden out of nowhere there is the horrible winter weather with horrible streets and I was spinning out of control into oncoming traffic, but by that time I had woken up to realize that my alarm had been going off for an hour and it was 6:00 and I should have been out of bed twenty minutes ago.

School was okay besides the fact that the students are getting antsy because we have a short 11 days left! Eek! I have so much that I still need to cover but I really do not want to grade anymore. The red pen is done. So now I am assigning homework that is easy to grade and does not take a lot of reading. Easier on my eyes :-) Plus we teachers do get antsy also!

Oh and yesterday I was planting my garden while the little neighbor kids are playing baseball next door which wouldn’t be a problem but they have their trash all over my yard and they are taking my rocks from around the house and throwing them every which way they could. Then the two year old (maybe three at the most) is running around in my flowerbeds, pushing over Saint Francis, playing with my extended drain pipe. Then when I tell him no he gives me a nasty look and then picks grass and tries to throw it at me. Gee where are the parents you ask…inside while they let their 5 or 6 year old look after the 2 (maybe 3) year old. Great parenting skills if you ask me! Then I come home tonight and find my bird bath knocked over. I think it is time for a big ol’ privacy fence.

Also my grass is half cut because the lawn mower has decided that it wanted to give me less power to cut the grass. So it sounded like the dang thing was about to die and black smoke was puffing out of it. Gee I didn’t think that was good. So the grass on the right side of my house it cut while the grass on the left side of my house long. Guess I am going with the grass with the artistic touch!

Oh and today was my brother’s birthday and the family went out to eat at Olive Garden and just as I am about to lift my glass to take a sip and the entire bottom falls out! So I had to sit there and be sticky with Sprite dripping all over me. Gee that was the kicker of the day. I think I am going to crawl under the covers and pray for a pleasant dream tonight!

Oh wait the cat just threw up! Oh joy!!!

Walking

So today I walked 3 miles for our school fundraiser. It was fun to take the afternoon and walk for an hour even if it was with my students. It was fun to see some of them race around the block while others kept a snail's pace. However when the walk was finished they were the ones bouncing around the grass. I think that they needed to expend more energy! On the downside I think I got too much sun and now I have a splitting headache. Oh well.

On another note I did not get the job at LaVille. I was told it was a tough decision and it was between me, a guy, and this woman named Marcy. Well Marcy got the job. She is also an aide at the school who just completed her work for her teaching degree and has a young son. I am now starting to think that I never had a chance when she stepped into the picture. So I am at St. Michael for another year, I think. Nobody else has called and probably will not call until two freakin days before school starts. I can't wait until then. However there might be a third grade position opening up at school and I told my principal that I really want third grade. This is my dream grade to teach! I also think that she might go for it if there will be enough kids to make two grade third grades. Plus the priest doesn't want me to go this is an incentive to keep me there and plus the second graders coming up do not mix well in a large class together. I should know within a few weeks! Hurray!

Also for those of you that don't know....I graduated on Tuesday! I now have my Masters!! Woo-hoo!!!