The End of the WORLD!

I’ve always been convinced that the world is going to end in 2012, and when I saw the rain this morning, I knew that it started today. I was supposed to have my 2^nd observation from my University Supervisor today, but she would have been travelling in the awful weather, so she called as I was walking in this morning to move our date to tomorrow. After I shook off (visual: like a wet dog), I headed to the Principal’s office to ask her to fill out a recommendation for me for the John Simmons Award that I was nominated for. Upon hearing that the bells were turned off, me and one of the Assistant Principals started to move kids toward their classrooms. It was SERIOUSLY pouring this morning and the lightning was so intense, so I was a little baffled that the students would have rather hugged and kissed all on each other in the rain than in the dry hallways. Kids… also, I have a student in 1^st period with hair longer than mine, and his was perfectly straight. Mine? Yep, the lovely side swoop returned.

Today, the FCAT math retakes paired with the WORLD ENDING definitely did ruin my plans. I had 8 kids in 1^st period. I really wanted to assign reading roles and being reading A Raisin in the Sun today, but I don’t have enough books to issue to 50 kids so the ones who weren’t there could catch up, so Mr. Archer suggested we have the kids play Apples to Apples (“for vocabulary purposes”)—I LOOOVEEEEE this game so I was all about it. And since my observation isn’t until tomorrow now, I didn’t really mind. I had fun with my 8 kids in first and my 15 in second period; plus, I think it was a little bit of a reward for those who did pass the FCAT the first time. In between classes, I herded more kids to class. Seriously, THE WORLD IS ENDING OUT HERE PEOPLE, go be lovey-dovey INSIDE. Also, eww.

3^rd period is my planning period and since both lunches are during this time, it makes all of 3^rd period about 2 hours long. I love Thursdays and Fridays during lunch time- the Hurricane Café, our student-run café, is open for teachers and it’s GOOOOOD.

Again, I wasn’t missing anyone from 4^th period (English 2) and so we were able to continue on with our plans. We did some more FCAT reading practice and read some more of our Tears of a Tiger novel. My kids really love this book and they don’t ever want to put it down. Whenever I tell them that we’re done reading for the day, they’re less than happy and they always voice it. I love them. Then, for the last 15 minutes, we went to the library so they could check out and return books. They were a little loud in the beginning, but they weren’t bad. The librarians were kind of mad at me- one even yelled at me. Wah L
Peace, love, Oxford Commas, and SUNSHINE TOMORROW, MAYBE?