It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. OK I wouldn't say it was the WORST time ever (I really just wanted to quote a book and feel smart doing it). Who doesn't like a Dickens classic anyway?
Sooo let me explain the best of times first. School is now in full swing and the real learning has begun. So far I LOVE my forensic science classes. It's refreshing to see upper classmen every other day and they are so different then freshmen. I treat them a lot differently too. I am much more strict with my little freshmen and I let a lot slide with 11 and 12 graders. In Forensics, we can joke around and have some fun but still get our work done.. 9th graders still don't understand where that fine line between joking/ having fun and being inappropriate and off task.
Here are some quotes from two of my seniors that really made me feel great!
"Ms. M, I just wanted to let you know that I over slept today and was late to school. I was going to just not come to school but then I remembered we had your lab today so I came just for this class"
and "I love this class because we actually get to get up and do things"
Ok so now for the worst of times...
Back to school night was on Thursday. First of all, I think they should give teachers a half day on back to school night. Its crazy that we have to get to school by 7 and then leave by 3 and be back by 5 and stay till 9... RIDICULOUS! Annnyways, It was a really long day. There were some good things that came from the day (trying to stay positive here): The science department had a potluck dinner together. It was really fun and nice to get to hang out with my coworkers outside of school. Also, I had a really good turn out of parents. Everyone seemed to be really impressed with my 6 min presentation and all the parents were really friendly. (AND I didn't have any parents coming up to me telling me I looked to young to teach their son or daughter!)
I felt like everything that could have gone wrong Friday morning did. First of all, I literally chased a boy across the school while I was doing my duty because he didn't have a pass to be out of class and wasn't where he was supposed to be. Thankfully my school has a lot of support personnel who came to my rescue and took care of the student for me. Then second period, I planned on having the students do this online computer science simulation but it went horribly wrong when 8 out of my 14 computers needed software updates and wouldn't load the sim. (Ugh! Technology is only awesome when it works!!) Luckily, all of my second period students are good kids and very adaptable. So I scrambled around trying to find something different to do for 3rd period. I finally decide to talk about blue printing and doing scaled models. This is when I discovered that 75 % of my students either a) don't know how to use a ruler or b) they are lazy and wanted me to do their work for them (hmm.. I wonder which one is the more likely choice) Either way I was running round the classroom going crazy trying to help students. During lunch, our tech lady came to fix my presenter (which was having connectivity problems.. the past two weeks I have been using the old school over head projector...which is a pain in the ass). Luckily she was able to fix it!! 4th period was amazingly my best block of the day. We made hats and then did blue prints of the hats. All the students liked the activity and it went a lot smoother when I was able to walk them through blue printing and scaling step by step on the projector. So it was a good end to a crazy and tiring week.
This weekend J and I traveled down to Nc to visit his family. I was a wonderful and relaxing weekend. We went to IKEA! and the mall and went to the movies. J's parents are awesome southern style cooks. So we ate some good food too.. (Shrimp and Grits are my favorite!! YUM!) It came and went wayyyyy to fast and the traffic was awful!
Until next time..
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