Second Grade

It's funny how I have spent my teaching career wishing and thinking that second grade would be the ideal grade for me to teach. It is something that I have wanted to do since college. Now that it is my reality, I have come to realize that maybe second grade really isn't for me. It's funny how that works out.

I would rather have the students that are ready to take some responsibilities and actually do some independent thinking. So I think fourth grade is now the ideal grade for me. I think teaching for five years in the junior high spoiled me. :)

I do however LOVE the students that I have this year. For the past three weeks, I have not had to raise my voice once asking for the chaos to stop. I go home at the end of the day with energy. Something that I have not had for two years! It is amazing how a difference of personalities will do that.

However, I have lots of drama with my head hurts, my tummy hurts, and other various aches and pains of 15 students. I have learned that a band-aid will solve anything and if you tell the student to sit down for a little bit everything is amazingly better. :0)

So for now, it looks like the year will go smoothly because of the types of students that I have. So it is a year to actually look forward to teaching. I tell people that the class I have this year is the class that reminds me why I went into teaching in the first place. So I really cannot complain too much!

Veggies

My veggie garden is just about finished. I spent an hour pulling dead plants on Sunday. I think that it is pretty funny that I didn't plant any cucumbers this year and just take a look at what I have:

Yup cucumbers. They grew from seed last year when they didn't get picked because I was in Europe. So they pretty much rotted away and viola new cucumbers for this year. This is the reason why I only have one jalapeno. The cucumber vines kinda squashed out the poor jalapeno plant. Oh well.

However, I was quite surprised when I started pulling the dead plants, and I found three honeydew melons growing underneath everything. So only time will tell if they will be any good. I am hoping that they will be. At least the cucumbers didn't kill everything. :)

Bread Ties

Every so often the principal puts things in our mailbox at school that really have nothing to do with teaching. Basically she gets forwards in her e-mail and then prints it out and gives it to each of the teachers.

I found the one she gave to us on Friday quite interesting. It is about bread ties:

"When you go to buy bread in the grocery store, have you ever wondered which is the freshest, so you 'squeeze' for freshness or softness? Did you know that bread is delivered fresh to the stores fives days a week: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Each day has a different color twist tie:

Monday=Blue

Tuesday=Green

Thursday=Red

Friday=White

Saturday=Yellow

The colors go alphabetically by color. So if today was Thursday, you would want a red twist tie; not white (which is Friday) because the bread is almost a week old!"

So now I plan to really see if the bread ties are in fact different colors. I get to test this idea tomorrow at the store after school. We shall see.

Wouldn't you be curious?

If you were driving by and saw this...would you be curious?

I just LOVE the fact that my mother was wearing her glasses on her blindfold!

Surprise!

On Sunday we threw a surprise party for my parent's 30th wedding anniversary. They did not want to throw a 25th wedding anniversary party, so we decided to surprise them for their 30th!And gee they were surprised!

Laura told them that she was taking them out to lunch on Sunday and that they had to agree to wear blindfolds. I thought no way that they were going to wear blindfolds! Well Laura actually got them to wear the blindfolds! As they were going down the driveway my mom refused to wear hers, Laura actually stopped the truck and refused to move until mom put hers on! So they did cooperate! My parents were both trying to figure out where they were going my dad actually was driving in his mind turn by turn until Laura started turning on random streets. So needless to say they were quite surprised and appreciative. My dad even teared up a little. It was quite cute!