I Adore the Continuing Craziness!

Week Two: the Craziness Continues -- An Overview

Monday: A deceptively normal, quiet day. No tantrums, no spilled milk, no tears, no major disciplines.

Tuesday: Family Night (we all stayed late to present to and meet the parents/guardians/god mother etc). Relatively low turn out, but very rewarding when I learned that my students had talked about my class to their family and parents were particularly interested to hear about the upcoming sheep brain dissection!

Wednesday: Math Department Day (each dept has a day, well, an afternoon really, to organize events or stations or a carnival or whatnot to have each Village (aka "Advisory group") get pumped to do math or whatever the topic is). We chaperoned our Village through four stations, competing for points, and in the end, my Village triumphed. Surprisingly!

Thursday: Lesson Plans due for week 3 - which will be the best week yet. Drawing brains on swim caps, dissecting a sheep brain in class, and 20-Questions for brain functions. Also due: our student evaluations (aka 'report cards'). The kiddoes are all off-campus today for a field trip for Career Day; all dressed in Sunday-Best/Professional wear to shadow businessmen and professionals in Miami

I have a visitor coming for the weekend! Yippee!

Friday: Another day of normal classes; turn in my Peer Observation form. Celebrate another week completed! Adventure to find Cuban food with Travis (shouldn't be too hard; Little Havana/Calle Ocho is not far from where I live/work).

Typical days this week: up at 6:30, to school by 7:30, leave school at 6:00, back to the dorms for a run, then scavenging or foraging for dinners. Cup Noodles, PB&J or semi-stale Cheeze Nips have consisted of meals for some of us. Grocery shopping never felt so good!

A note to readers: I am deliberately NOT writing much about the content of my lessons. If you'd like to know more about what I'm teaching, drop me a Comment and say so. I'm happy to share, I just don't want to scare you off.