Relaxing Weekend

Our weekend (last weekend) has been so relaxing. I was worn out from a short week (last week), so I needed time to just rest. We had Monday off for President's Day, but it felt like the longest week ever. There were so many little things that had to be done and the kids were wild, but I made it through. The week was topped off with a visitor. As all the students were leaving to catch their bus, in through the side door (a no-no) walked Brandi (Pelphrey)! Some of the kids saw here and ran to hug her. It was the sweetest thing. She never thought some of those kids would ever hug her (they were her arch enemies before she left). Now they realize how much they miss her and it made me smile. She really felt the love around the school as teachers commented on how good she looked. No, she didn't bring baby Kate because of cold/flu season (her mom kept her), but we still got to hang out with Brandi. She ended up staying until 6:30 to chat. WOOPS! That's like old times! I got to updated her on life and school as well as everything in-between. I kept telling her how much I missed her too. I am so thankful for her friendship and for the ability to work on a team with her again. Although she's been gone, I've never thought man we work better without her. :) Oh, yeah, and if you have been reading or keeping up with us for a while you know this was an issue last year. The last day of post-planning I was told I was moving to a different team. I was so upset. I'd loose my Activboard and my team (friends). I finally began to deal with it when I asked why they wanted me to move. My principal said, "So you will grow professionally." At first I was like that's ridiculous, but then they let me stay and moved one of our other teammates. They let Brandi and I stay together though. I am glad of that. She was pregnant and I wanted to be in the room right next to her through the pregnancy and be there if she needed anything. Since she has been gone, I have done pretty much everything for our team. If that's not growing professionally, I don't know what is! I've called parents, set up conferences, kept our team notebook, been the main contact person for our team, done all the RTI stuff, got all the Wonderful Wednesday plans together, and who knows what else. If they would have moved me, I probably would have been doing the same stuff over on the other team. Either way I would have been with 2 brand new teachers! If there were other reasons for the attempted move, I will never know, but I do know I'd do fine wherever I was placed because the other math rooms are to get Activboards too! :)

Anyway, the past two nights (this past Friday and Saturday), I have fallen asleep at a ridiculous hour (8 or 9) and it's the weekend. Jeremy has wanted me to relax and that I have done! To relax, we stayed at home a lot. We turned on my iMac to get my pictures off of it and put them on my macbook pro and the monitor wouldn't show a picture. I started getting really sad. Jeremy said your computer is fine it booted up, but something's wrong with the monitor. He assured me everything would be okay because he had faith in his computer abilities. He got all my pictures off and the monitor came on after a while. Later on it didn't come on again, but I know he can still get stuff off of it. That computer was my faithful buddy in college. I was on that thing CONSTANTLY. Whether it was AIM, Safari, or in Word, I was on it. I have typed so many papers on it, written so many messages in AIM, and been on Facebook countless times. Before Jeremy got a new computer, we would haul that one home all the time so he could do videos on it. It was my little alien child. I'd buckle her up in my backseat and drive home. I remember coming back from New York before I went to GCSU and it was all set up for me. It even had a little video on it for me. Jeremy's just too sweet! It has done well for me, and hopefully it will still be okay to work on if we can help the monitor to work again (all the time). 

This was my last week of this crazy masters class (Cultural and Linguistic Diversity). I'm so ready for my next class (Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Part II). Since this is more what my master's is in, I will enjoy it more! I guess ya always have to take filler courses. That has been the first class I haven't enjoyed. I have made all A's but this class has just been um, let me say boring... or repetitive. Every week I must learn about how to better help ELLs (English Language Learners). I only teach a handful of ELL students and so the material is kinda blah. It's not that I don't like these students, it's just that the strategies are things I already do in my practice in general, I don't know why I need to focus on them yet again specifically for ELLs. Oh well, it's almost done. 

We celebrated Momma and Aiden's birthday Sunday. Jeremy made his famous spaghetti and our house still smells so yummy. Daphne made a yummy cookie cake. We had an iPhone candle for Aiden and Momma to blow out too! We are getting so high tech with our birthdays. Aiden got some money and an American Girl doll she had been wanting. Momma got a digital picture frame.

 

This week has been yet another long week. We had conferences all afternoon on Wednesday, and the kids have been draining my energy all week! We got another new student... I think this is like um 5 or 6 new students in the past few weeks. It's RIDICULOUS! We are totally full in the 6th grade. Students will now have to share lockers and we will have to have about 30 in every class. UGH! What keeps people moving to Barrow County?! I wish I knew!

Now it's time for another weekend. Man, I'm so glad it's here! I wonder what this weekend will hold.