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My daily personal blog based on prompts from Blog City. |
This began as my first blog for WDC . Now, after a few weeks of being on this great site and learning my way around, I'm able to give voice to this blog. Please be kind as you read through my first attempts at making myself heard.
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| B. B. King has died at Age 89 and Johnny Depps dogs are in danger of being put to sleep. According to Australian law, he brought the dogs into the country without the proper paperwork. He flew into the country on his private jet. I would send my dogs back, which is what Depps and his wife will choose to do. As a dog lover, I completely understand taking your dog's with you. Today is Friday. Thank goodness. I need to leave a little earlier to get some donuts for me and coach Phillips. I am going to dress more comfortably today. I hope that I don't have much to do. I would like to spend the day cleaning and reading and writing. I will stop at the grocery store on my way home. Supper is unknown at this point. |
| Seven Days and Counting! Hip, Hip, Hooray...tomorrow will be a beast what with claiming and then Honors Night, which I dislike immensely. But, my pedagogical BFF and I are working together to get everything done, so perhaps Friday can be a great day. I will have a busy weekend, though. I've got to get the handouts for the inservice together. I've been working on creating Minilessons for next year. The problem is getting started, but I just need the time to sit down and do it. I need a system. Perhaps I need to create a folder for each of the sections. Perhaps I could do that in OneNote. Now, that is the best idea that I have heard....or thought. Write that down...create the folder in OneNote. According to Getting Things Done, I just need a time to sit down and review all of my materials and notes. That is true. I need a plan. i need a way to merge planning for next year and writing this summer. Perhaps I could work on my minilessons as Persona Paper posts. That is also a great ide. I need to figure out how to add images to this site. I'll also work on that. I need to continue to working on everything. I need to go back and add my ownership of the image. Can I write my novel on here? Those are the things that I need to figure out. Hopefully, I will have time to do that this summer. I need to focus my time and energy on getting that done. I can't teach forever, but I can be involved in educatin forever. I need to look at my lessons and my minilessons and create the outlines for them on here. Welcome to ELAB Rules of the Road Your Toolbox Getting Your Toolbox Organized All of these need to be linked to my webpage.  I'll add some more when I get a chance. I'm still trying things out here. What about those tutorials that I was planning on making. I need to turn those into presentations. Create a checklist for Social Studies. That would help me immensely. Create some presentations for Social Studies with connected readings. Think about novels and such that could be used in the Social Studies classroom. There is so much on this website that I need to learn to do. It is going to take me quite a while to get used to it. I need to learn to browse the categories and write revies. |
| Tuesday...time is drifting by so slowly. There are eight days left. It is always so difficult getting to the end of the school year. Plus, I am beginning to think that I need more medicine for my moodiness. But, I am not going to take the blame. Women do that to themselves. We are constantly trying to prove ourselves. I don't fight or disagree with women. I only do it with men. Perhaps I do feel like I need to prove something. I need to have more confidence in myself. I need to act like I know what I am doing is best for the kids. In my conversation today, the sixth grade teachers agree with me. It is only a handful that don't. I think I attacked Dustin this morning. I will send him a thank you email. He is very patient. Tomorrow, the students will write their memoirs and the essay for the article. I will pull something up from the textbook to teach. I will read the text again. Minilesson Ideas are what I need to look for. I have all of those books. I will look at all of them. Next week will be hard. I can do it. I will show them the poems...I will look at high school level. I need to find more public domain pieces. The high school books are important. I still have the language textbooks also. There is so much for us to use. I need to look at different books. I need to look at several of those books. Poetry is important. I need to look at scholastic and developer. I need to look in the morning to teach. |
| Happy Friday to myself. It has been an exhausting week, but there are only ten days to go until summer holidays. I try to write for thirty minutes each evening. My mom and mother in law came over for lunch last Sunday. We cooked hamburgers on the grill. My dad passed away last October, and I'm still feeling so sad about it. Mother's Day and especially Father's Day will be so difficult. I never understood what folks meant about grief lasting so long...yes, it truly does. It was extremely heartbreaking to watch my dad die. I'm getting more frustrated with my son's school all of the time. He is a Junior in high school. Each day he comes home and tells all of the things that they don't do. It is disappointing that this is the way that high schools have become. I could easily go over to the school and teach more than his teachers do each day. My husband, son, and all the moms are going fishing on Sunday for Mother's Day. I don't and won't fish, but I will go for moral support. I will carry the food for everyone. This morning was Career Day. There were five different speakers. The kids rotated to each of the classrooms. There was a certified public accountant, a graphic designer, a Mary Kay representative, a salesman, and a college professor. It was a good mix. In the afternoon, the student council had a Make a Wish ceremony. It was very moving. It is not even seven in the evening, and I can barely hold my head up. I will need to prepare for Monday. I have a basic idea of what the lesson will be. I will need to get everything organized and get the information to Mrs. Tipton. It will not be difficult. I will use the new standards. I need to look at the social studies standards also. I can include those in my lessons. I could make presentations for each of them. I need to read books about the different time periods. I can get some of them free. I need to look at the lessons on line. I will find a way to use all of them. |
| Good evening to all dear writers. Today was exhausting. My students spent the first two hours of the day reading excerpts from different selections and writing responses. After lunch, they took a social studies assessment for the state. It appeared to be very difficult. The kids took it all in stride. I have always enjoyed social studies. A part of me wishes that I taught it. I'm ready for another change anyway. I only have one year until I can retire. I will need to keep working as long as the kids are in college. I am ready to stay at home and write. I also look forward to traveling more, although we do a good bit of travel now. I do enjoy this writing site. It is a fun place to explore. Every writer should be a member just to get daily inspiration. What are my favorite things? Of course, I like to write. I love to read just about anything. I enjoy commenting on other's posts. I like writing non-fiction more than fiction. My favorite genre to read is British mysteries. I love reading murder mysteries where Scotland Yard has to get involved. I am an American history buff. I like history in general. I would love to teach it. Again, I am just ready for a change. I will be able to explore this site better in a few weeks. I am so glad that the weather is warming up. I need to shave. I haven't done that all winter. On Monday, the students will read an article, "Superman and Me," and write a response. I am testing how to use font colors. It will be easier on the desktop. I can experiment later. |
| It appears as if "daily musings" is my catch phrase. I need some better choices here folks. I need to find out if pieces published here can be published somewhere else. I still need a career day speaker as my last two skipped out on me. Darn their time. This weekend is going to be full as Mom is coming up to spend the night and fish on Sunday. Perhaps Mema will go also. Thirteen days until the end of school. My, how time flies. I need to explore the TNReady site. I need to become familiar with the resources. I need to create spelling and vocabulary activities. Tomorrow, I need to get my walls back up. I need a notebook...book...for Reviews. No folder. The poetry might be developed into a book. I will check it out. I also want a folder for reviews. I need a book for Tennessee Heroes. I need a folder for curriculum. I need a folder for my resources. Create a folder for classroom management and turn it into a book. I need to distinguish between the different items. I need to think about each item that I create or add to each day. Create a book for greatness. Yes. That would probably do good. Daily prayers and devotionals. Folk heroes. All about me. Interview a family member. Develop a character for a middle school book. Use that character sheet that I saw the other day. I see that I can also add photos. I will figure all of that out soon when school is out. Keep a log for each day. I can keep it on the computer. The computer home page can be like a table of contents. Add Compass Odyssey right away with tests and learning paths. What about my novel? What about my erotica? I need to revisit all of my previous entries and follow up on my ideas. I really need to keep up with trends on these writing sites. Tomorrow is the Social Studies field test. Tomorrow morning, first and second periods will go to computer labs. |
| Monday's drag me down more than Sundays. Mondays are so depressing. They are like an anchor that is so difficult to pull into the boat. God forbid that I should try to row in with that albatross around my neck. I am always so exhausted by this time in the school year. I am doing all that I can to keep everyone going until the last day, which is fourteen days away. Thank you sweet Jesus. Today was library research day. Each student read a short biography and took notes. He or she will turn those notes into an essay next week. My students are required to produce one piece per week. That is thirty two pieces by the end of the year. Several students are behind for this nine weeks. They need to step it up. I keep telling them that they need to work on their assignments at home, but most won't listen or they do not care. The end of the school year is such a tuffy. We are expected to keep the kids busy, but everyone knows that the end is upon us. Tomorrow is computer lab. Students have an end of year exam to complete. If they don't make a one hundred, then they have to do the learning paths and retake the test. The program won't move them on until they have made a one hundred. It can become quite tedious for all of us. Wednesday is presentation day. Each student created an end of year project and he or she has to present it to the student body. It is such a long boring day. The kids actually like presenting. Thursday, we head back to the library where the students will read poems and analyse them. We analyse poems at least once per quarter. Some like it and some don't. Some will deliberately choose the shortest and easiest poems. Sometimes, I have to assign specific poems. Friday is career day. I always think that other folks' work is so much more exciting than mine. Except in the summertime. That is when I love mine the best. I am getting sleepy, so it's off to bed. |
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