blogging

I really need to blog more often, I just get so busy that I forget. Looks like I am going to be teaching Econ next year! YUCK! Unless they do not need the extra class and then I will get another US History, which is what I would prefer. So I know I have Sociology as well. We have a party to go to tonight and tomorrow night. Tonight is a Christmas in July party and tomorrow is my husband’s best friends birthday party.
I highlighted my hair myself the other day and I think it looks pretty good. I was very cautious and they are very subtle. Next time I think I will make them bolder by leaving the solution on longer. My hair is copper red with blonde highlights on top and around my face. Well I am painting a pair of jeans so I need to go.

yesterday

I did not make it work out yesterday, but I did get to hold a sweet baby girl most of the day! Babies are just so sweet. So today I need to work out extra hard. Maybe I will try it on the Wii today instead of the gym.

Summer

I have been taking it easy since school got out. I still do not know what I am teaching next year, and it is so frustrating. I want to work on my classes and I want to be in my classroom, but it looks like I will have to wait until August. I can get into my room August 3rd, so I can get my room ready. School starts around August 25th, so that will give me time. So I need to focus on something else.

I am going to start going to the gym everyday. I should have started a month ago, but I have not really felt like it, but I really need to get back in to shape. I have not gained or lost any wait, it has been holding steady, so I think I need to tone it up. I will be 43 in August and just need to get in to shape. This will be my number one goal for the rest of summer. Get healthy and stay that way. We have been eating better, now I need to do the fit part. I am not to old to get into shape.

hump day

Here we are, Wednesday and it is the first day of final exams. Mostof my kids are exempt form the test, which is fine by me! Less grading to do! I am sad to see my 10th graders move on, but they have worked hard this year for me. I will miss them all. I am ready for summer and ready to start looking in to the subjects I am teaching for next year. I have never taught Economics and need to take time with it this summer and go through Sociology and make it mine. US History I just need to tweek alittle bit. I would prefer to have World History, not even AP World again, but World History, but that is a no go so far. Why is it when they ask what you prefer to teach and you tell them, they never listen. They give you something totally different? I have never understood that. Oh well guess I never will either, I just wish they would not ask if they are not going to use my input in their decision making.

final week

It is the final week of school. I am happy and sad. I am looking forward to a new group of students in Stu Co, and thinking that will solve alot of the problems we had this year. But then I also want to give up Stu Co becuase it has been such a hassel. The kids were very upset that my co-sponsor from last year left and they took it out on me and my new co-sponsor all year long, which makes for a horrible year. Then at mid semester I get a third prep I have never taught before and that adds on to the stress. Now I find out I will have three preps next year, plus Stu Co. 3 Sociology, 1 Us History and 1 Economics! YUCK and YIKES! Three preps again? I have never taught Econ, and I am not sure that I want to. I had the class I wanted to teach taken away from me because I taught it the way the old principal asked me to teach it. The new principal never told me any different and apparently it was not good enough. The old Principal never mentioned anything to the new people in charge. Don’t that just suck!

Wire

We are getting down to the wire.
School is almost over, we have 15 class days left and then I have 2 teachers days after that. I have lots of Sr’s so most of them will be exempt and if my AP kids take the AP exam on Thursday then they are exempt from my final as well! YESSS!

Star Trek

OH MY GOD! it was so good! We went last night at 10:20, and I am so tired today, but it was so worth it! We will be going to see it again. They did such a great job making so, the actors got the essence of the characters right! If you are not a fan that you will love it too! I have seen every Star Movie in the theatre, and I was not one of the people wearing uniforms! I could not believe it, but it was teenagers that were wearing the uniforms, not adults. If you do not like Star Trek, I believe you will still love the movie, it has lots of action, some comedy and a great bad guy!

textbooks

I was reading Miss_Teacher http://middle-school-teacher.blogspot.com/ and she was talking about textbooks. That is so stupid. I read the textbooks and they are BORING! like snooze, pu tme to sleep and I love to read. Even my AP book is the same way. DRY! I hate it and so do my kids. Right Wing Conservatives should have nothing to do with textbooks. Going through SS books you find wrong information, misspellings and pictures that whould not be in the books. They are shoddily pput together and tear up easily. The fact that some of the facts are wrong, just kills me. I love in Texas and I can see the books being geared toward my state and our horrible cirriculum standards. Wow! I did not mean to go off on a tangent.

Convention

I have spent the last three days at the Texas State Student Council Convention. 4300 kids attended it. This was my second year to attend, and it is more for the kids than the sponsors. The attend session to learn projects and things stu co’s are doing all over Texas. We go to Six Flags on the second night of the convention and wrap it up on the third moring. We missed two days of school and had a lot of fun. My problem child was still my problem child and I thought about not taking them with us, but the mom would not have liked that at all. This child decided to go off on their own at six flags with someone from another Stu co instead of staying with our group, then we had to tell a lie to get this student to come to us when 18 people were ready to leave. The student did not want to , and I told them that they were not allowed to be at Six Flags unless a sponsor was there as well and we were leaving. I walked the 5 kids left to their cars and saw them off. I figured this student was going to do something, so when a nother student called to see if we were meeting back at the school or going straight home, this confirmed what I was thinking. We called mom and sure enough they were not at home and mom was furious. All the student really had to do was call mom and ask if they could stay, but that did not happen. This is the student that I have caught using Stu Co to skip classes and has generally not behaved in an appropiate manner all year. This student does not really like me and has no respect for me, and everytime they do something wrong I am the one to catch them when they are doing it and having to find a number to call home or to have my co-sponsor call home. What is with some of these kids these days? It really makes me think twice about doing this again. I mean we were responible for the students while they were with us and then she does this stupid thing. ARGH!

writing

You know I have always wanted to write a fiction novel. I have wanted to do it since I was little. I use to make books when I was a kid. I would write the book, draw the pictures and everything. I have not done that in a long time, but it use to make me feel so good. I would give them to my mom and she would read them and of course being my mom she thought they were wonderful. I want to write again, but I look at what I wrote when I am finished and I always feel like my writing is so childish and not on an adult level. One of these days maybe I figure out how to write and feel good about it, but then I hate to let other people read it until I am done, and then I am afraid of what they will say.