After class Twitch went to the restroom to wash off his “facial hair”. He seemed to get most of it off, and apparently his mother was pretty amused, he suffered no serious consequence. I generally let kids use the restroom whenever they want, but for this one I figured that he took the dare, he [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Twitch’
May 6, 2008
Mista’ Moustache
At one point during my morning class I looked up from a group of kids I was working with and saw that Twitch had flipped his collar up and pulled his head nearly all the way into his shirt.
I went over to his table and sat next to him.
He turned to look at me.
Only his [...]
February 6, 2008
Finally!
It’s about time I had a day that didn’t make me want to throw myself off the roof! Things have been ‘meh’ in class lately, and it’s not all about me not sleeping, it’s just that we have been in a rut. We keep having interruptions at school - field trips, more predictive exams for [...]
November 14, 2007
Reason #362 Why I Love Middle School
We have been working on a fairly large poster project for the last few days, and today the kids were finally done with the drafting phase and ready for the actual poster making materials.
My first year teaching, these kinds of projects were a disaster. My supplies consisted of a rag-tag assortment of used colored pencils [...]
November 6, 2007
Fitting them all together
Seating charts. I hate making seating charts. I have 30 students in one of my classes, who from this point on will be known as The Beasties, and we don’t have desks, we have tables. Big, ugly, awkward tables. Tables that seat 5-6 students. I have to arrange The Beasties so that they are basically [...]
