That’s how one of my kids described the sugar cookies in the cafeteria today. I thought it was funny, and so I share it with you now!
Today was actually a pretty awesome day. We continued working hard, we used our clock buddies again, and overall I feel like it was a successful day. Let’s put a few silver linings up, though.
Today’s Silver Linings:
1. Two more days. I’m just sayin’.
2. This weekend is the robotics competition here at the Dorton Arena and I’m pretty stoked to see how these events come together. It should be pretty awesome, so come check it out on Saturday if you have some free time–no cost to get in! 🙂
3. I was able to call that special boy of mine and chat for all of 4.65 minutes at lunch today, but it definitely was a bright spot of the day.
4. I mean, it’s flipping beautiful outside.
5. Today is my coworker’s birthday! I’m very glad you were born, Shirley. You certainly know how to keep us all laughing. 🙂
6. He had a horrid morning today, and it turned out he didn’t get meds. Sent him to the office to take care of it, and the rest of the day was fine. I even checked in with him for a sec today at recess and I said, “Hey, buddy, do you realize what you did? You took a bad morning, and you made it into a…” And he knew just where I was going. He said, “a good day.” Hallelujah.
I think I’m going to leave it there for today, since I don’t want to feel like I’m forcing things or pulling things from nowhere.
Today was a good day, tomorrow can be better. I’ve got a new mindset about the rest of this school year and I’m determined to make the most of it. My job is way stressful, but so is every other elementary school teachers, so I’m learning to find coping mechanisms and make it through the chaos.
I hope you all had a great Tuesday, and I’ll see you here tomorrow.
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Well hello and happy Tuesday to you!
I’m actually not at work today; I decided to take a day to work on report cards and such (since they’re going home this Friday), so today is kind of like a personal workday. It was nice to be able to get up when I wanted to, but there’s lots of work for me to finish with this day, so I’m gonna get my list for today up and it’s probably going to be pretty short and sweet.
Let’s get this party started!
Today’s Silver Linings:
1. As previously mentioned, I did get to sleep a good bit later. Always a nice thing, right?
2. Staying in bed longer provided my crazy cat, Maddox, and I with more cuddling time. I’ve missed just chilling with him.
3. It’s pretty flipping gorgeous outside today.
4. I totally have a Daddy/daughter dinner/hockey date tonight after my workshop. Soooo excited. 🙂
5. Today is the last session of my workshop I’ve been attending for the past couple of weeks. I’m looking forward to coming out with a lot of great resources to use.
6. I left a note specifically for him yesterday reminding him that the substitute teacher won’t know about him and our systems. Told him that I know he can have a good day, and gave him a survey to fill out about his day to hand in at the end of the day. I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll have a great report when I return tomorrow.
7. Did I mention that there’s a hockey game on tonight? I mean, seriously.
8. My track out is officially a month away today. Still feels kind of far, but at least I can effectively count down to the day starting today. 🙂
9. There is something extremely comforting to me about spending time at the library…I don’t know why I’ve begun to gravitate toward the library so much over the past few weeks, but I’m just loving getting to come to a peaceful, (usually) quiet place.
10. No worries, loves, because tomorrow can be even better than today.
See you folks on Wednesday!
This Tuesday is a bit of a tough one for reasons that aren’t completely clear to me…I’m just tired for the most part, I think. I kind of want to call in sick even though I’m already here and just spend a day in bed. Alas, not an option.
However, there have still been some good things about this day. Let’s get to them, shall we?
Today’s Silver Linings:
1. I did, miraculously, get here on time for a meeting at 7:45. That’s quite an event, especially considering how much I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning.
2. My kids are continuing to be helpful by filing things for me, which really makes getting papers home a lot easier.
3. I’ve had 2 parent emails asking about the science fair this week, which at least lets me know that a couple of my kids will participate. I’m really hoping that they surprise me and I have a lot of great ideas.
4. I pulled a small group during reading today and they really enjoyed the activity we did, even though it was really low-maintenance in terms of planning. I’m excited to continue the activity with my other students.
5. I’m heading to session two of my workshop on PBS strategies today…I get to skip out a little early because of that, but it makes the afternoon just a tad stressful. I’ll enjoy the workshop, though. I really liked last week’s session.
6. Tomorrow is Wednesday, and that means soup awaits!
7. My classroom library is looking pretty good, mostly because my kids are now addicted to organizing it.
8. My PB&J today was particularly yummy. Or maybe I was just really hungry.
9. He has silent lunch, which is frustrating, but I think this afternoon will be better than this morning. He started to get focused on his assignments towards the end of independent working time today, so that’s always a good sign.
10. Even though I know I’ll be ridiculously tired at the end of this day, I can take comfort in the fact that tomorrow can be even better. Also, I plan to get lots of sleep tonight.
Lots.
See you kids tomorrow! Happy Tuesday!
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Wow! 20 days. That’s pretty cool. That also means we’re halfway through Lent!
This Tuesday is shaping up to be okay…I have too many kids that are on silent lunch, but the good news is they still love me anyway.
I have a workshop to run to after school, so let’s see how much I can get now.
Today’s Silver Linings:
1. I forgot just how wonderful a good PB&J sandwich can be. Yum!
2. I’m continuing to feel better and better each day…I started to worry I was getting a cold after the hockey game last week, but my congestion is getting better and my throat doesn’t hurt at all. Improvements all around!
3. Today’s high? 73. I’m just sayin’.
4. I had to get a parent in for a conference pronto and even though I had no phone or email address, I did it! We’re meeting tomorrow.
5. A few of my students who I’ve had a little concern about in regards to reading comprehension have really impressed me with their EOG pretest practice stuff. With a little fine tuning between now and the EOGs, I think we’ll be just fine.
6. Even though I had three kids absent yesterday, everybody is here today! It’s always nice to have the whole class present.
7. As I mentioned, I’m heading to a workshop today. I’m really looking forward to learning more strategies that I can use in my classroom. A teacher is really a life long learner, you know. 😉
8. Two of my favorite TV shows returned last night–House and Gossip Girl! (Don’t judge me too harshly, please.) It was great to catch up on them. Also, tonight means American Idol and Parenthood! 😀
9. Even though my absolute favorite show doesn’t come back until mid-April, FOX is showing the last episode that aired of Glee tonight, which also makes my heart happy.
10. Alright! I got all of them up again before lunch. Pretty cool. Have a great Tuesday, kids, and don’t worry–there’s always tomorrow!
See ya on Wednesday! (Yay, soup supper!)
Well, this has been an interesting morning…I’m feeling okay. I’m starting a Mucinex-type medication in the hopes that it will help clear this crud out of my system.
Let’s see what we’ve got so far today.
Today’s Silver Linings:
1. I have discovered that I don’t have to have my lesson plan book right in front me to be able to move on with my day. Not a huge fan of the experience, but I held my own and I was glad for how smoothly my morning still went.
2. I think I’m coughing less today, which is nice. It would be even nicer for me to be done coughing altogether, but I’ll take what I can get.
3. The breakfast that was laid out this morning was awesome! I even got to go back and eat a little more for lunch. 🙂
I’ll be back after school, so I’ll see you then!
—— (Better late than never, right?) ——
Sorry for the delay today…I had a baby shower to attend after school and I didn’t get to leave today until almost 5:30, so here we are.
4. He stayed on green again today. I might bribe him with a reward if he stays on green all week. That would be quite a momentous occasion.
5. My kids are doing well so far with EOG practice. They seem to understand how to use a lot of the strategies we’ve been discussing.
6. We had a really cool conversation as a class today about a story that we’re reading this week. Who says 9 year olds aren’t deep?
7. While on hallway duty today, I had a student from another teacher’s class come and sit down next to me to rail me with questions that just made me laugh. A sample:
- “How old are you?”
- “Do you have any kids?”
- “You’re not married? Why are you not married?”
Now, some people, I’m sure, would be insulted by this kind of questioning, but it just tickled me to death how concerned she was that I’m not married. Kids are crazy. She also guessed that I was around 40 (I’m 23, by the way), which hurt my feelings a little, so I’m going to keep in my head that she meant that as a joke. Or maybe I just had a serious frump day today.
No, it was definitely a joke.
Moving on…
8. I had a good time hanging out with some lovely work folks after school today for a coworker’s baby shower. Got to enjoy seeing the people I work with, and got to have some yummy snacks and cake! Win-win, I’d say.
9. Somehow, I’m still standing at the end of this very long day. If that’s not a silver lining, then I don’t know what is.
10. The amazing thing is, there’s always tomorrow.
Maybe we’ll have a delay, hm? The precipitation is starting to switch over from rain to slush, so it’ll definitely be an interesting night.
Today was one of those days you just kind of want to shower off, you know? But the good news is I made it out alive, and I still had 10 silver linings to show for it.
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.
(And, as always, I do.)
Another challenging day. I’m not feeling tip top today, and that makes it harder to find the silver linings.
Harder, but not impossible.
Today’s Silver Linings:
1. I got him excited by giving him the chance to show me that maybe he doesn’t have to sit in the back of the classroom forever. We’re on a trial run this week and I’m really hoping that it will go well. (Update: this was not a good morning for him. We did have a break through finally, at about 20 minutes before lunch. We’ll see if it sticks and gets us through the day!)
2. I got a “new” student today. Actually, it’s one of the students who was in my room for only a few weeks and then moved away. She’s really sweet, though, and the good news is I don’t have to show her where anything is.
3. So, I know this super cool chick who happens to be one of my all time favorite people in the world, and she has a really awesome blog of her own. She gave me a shout out, and since I love her, here’s one for her, too.
That’s all I have in me for right now. There will be more later, but it is only 9:30. I’ll shoot the rest your way after school or at lunch if I have some more.
Stay dry, kids. It’s a rainy one.
~~~~~~ (Lunch Break) ~~~~~~
4. My chicken ramen noodles and my orange for lunch are hitting the spot.
5. I think I might have come up with a great strategy to keep him focused. Stay tuned to see if I have good news to report once I apply it. (I’m not telling just yet because I don’t want to jinx it!)
…and it’s time to go get the kids again. How is it that this time passes so quickly?
See you at the end of the day.
~~~~~~ (Hallelujah!) ~~~~~~
6. My students really want to be helpful.
7. He’s great at filing papers for me, and it’s a cool incentive for him to stay on task. 😀 Win-win, ya know?
8. We got to go out for recess today!!
9. I was able to get some improvised homework together since my students weren’t quite ready to move on in math.
10. And, praise the Lord, there is always tomorrow.
This day has worn me out. See you tomorrow, folks.
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