Did I really not post about my teaching for the last week? Well, let’s see what I can remember. Monday I worked as a special ed teacher at a junior high. The teacher I subbed for I remember used to work in the district’s therapeutic day school program which is a program for students with […]
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Our 4th and 5th grade ministry has been undergoing some changes as of late. Early this summer the one who headed it up for the last several years passed the reigns over to the one who had been running the younger ages for some time. His own duties now encompass the entire children’s and student
Most elementary classrooms share a common theme. Besides behavior boards, displayed classwork, televisions, etc. there are those boards that show who has what jobs for the week. I have seen job boards with only a few jobs listed and most students on deck for another week and I have seen job boards where every student
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Today marks the end of an era. No, I am not writing about the 102 years it has been since both Chicago MLB teams were last in the playoffs. I will leave that blog post to a more sports-interested blogger. I am referring to the end of Randhurst Mall. Today was the last day for
Wait- that’s not quite how the saying goes of two boys comparing sizes, is it? Well, in second grade apparently that is quite the appropriate comparison for comparing the lengths of their pencils. Literally speaking of course- how can you even think…! 😮 Oh, never mind. Anyway, the lower grades can prove to be quite
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Last night I was a bit exhausted from work, short nights of sleep, choir on the weekend, small group… Well, you get the picture. So it is understandable that when I read a news item about some new Vista Ultimate extras and I went to Windows update to get them and saw SP1 asking to
On this official International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I forgot one thing while subbing- I forgot to talk like a pirate. Despite my reminder to myself. I think the kids would have enjoyed it. Oh, well. Cleanup continues here on the home flood front- I finally ripped up the carpet at the foot of
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Well, the new pump is installed and cleanup continues. We picked up some wet items from downstairs and put them outside to dry, afterwhich we’ll try washing them. The second dehumidifier which I said doesn’t work actually seems to after all. It just draws a lot of power. I switched it to another outlet and
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As in up out of the sump pump pit when the sump pump fails… You may have heard of, or even experienced the weather happening around here while Ike was pounding the Gulf coast. Rain. Lots of it. It wasn’t as bad as the storm system that hovered over us for days last year [EDIT:
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We all know what that date represents. Well, most of us do. As I mentioned a couple of posts ago I worked will ELL students today. One student actually didn’t know about what happened seven years ago as he just came to this country less than a year ago. I suspect there were others as
