school
Friday, October 28, 2005
workshop fridays
every other friday at my school is a workshop friday, and i’ve chosen to teach quilting as one of my workshops. today, carynn finished her first quilt ever! i’m so proud of her =) she did a great job learning how to use a sewing machine and putting her pieces together, and she’s now inspired to make several quilts for her baby cousin that was just born and for a few more peoples…
i have so much fun with the students when they’re willing to participate in the activities!
Monday, October 24, 2005
munkeyin' around the gym
jesse, gus, & madison were jumpin and clickin their heels after the volleyball game last week, and they had so much fun posing for the camera =) my poor camera… i couldn’t find the charger during the big move and when i finally turned my camera back on, the left and right buttons don’t work anymore! that means that i can’t change the settings, so it’s stuck at 1M with the flash on. booo!!! i’m not happy about that. luckily, i can still take some pictures, although they’re not the quality i want them to be anymore. anyways, pictures will be a little sporadic from now on since i’ve stopped taking as many pictures.
anyways, this means that i’m in the market for a new camera. any suggestions?
Friday, October 21, 2005
off to school i go
it’s past 8 but i’m not late to work. after all, it’s a friday, so i’m either gonna do a quilting workshop or take my students on a field trip. this week is field trip friday, and so i’ve joined forces with science-kim and gabriela and we’re headed to the krikorian with about 50 students and we’re gonna watch the corpse bride.
yes, you heard me right! for work today, i get to go in late and watch corpse bride with my students =)
i dunno how science-kim did it but she has reasons to watch this. we’re gonna go over literary mumbo jumbo before the movie and talk about the time period, the movie style, etc, and then we get to watch it.
oh, and when that’s over, i’m done working for the day =) i’ll probably hang out at gfe or something and get all my grading done. i LOVE fridays!
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
mmm... pancake breakfast
so… some of the students brought pancake batter this morning and made pancakes during their free period. i happened to see ‘em and snagged the remnants and had a mini-pancake for breakfast this morning. meanwhile, the student body president brought oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dough and they put it in the oven in between classes and then ran outta my classroom to pull it out of the oven, and then brought it back to class and shared with everyone.
have i said yet that i LOVE my school? where else would my students make me pancakes for breakfast and bake cookies for my entire class? this place ROCKS!!!!
Thursday, October 06, 2005
picture day
just like when i was in high school myself, i TOTALLY forgot that today was picture day… it doesn’t help that i showered right before i slept and so when i woke up it looked like my hair was plastered to the right side of my head in directions i didn’t want it to go. nor that i didn’t get alotta sleep last night.
but that’s okay. i just went into the bathroom to pull at my hair a little bit and then i went on over to the picture room, which happened to be empty, so apparently i beat the middle school rush. i’ll be bringing my students over later, but i figured, hey i can get my picture in. and then - i asked for an ID card. i got one last year from bloomington, it says “Ms. Puen” on it. but.... the company here isn’t used to doing staff cards, so i -might- just get an id card with just my name on it. i mean, no one here calls me ms. puen anyways.
that would so rock if i got a high school ID card with just my name on it. i never have problems passing as a student =) =)
Monday, September 26, 2005
walkin with a rope
last week, we had a school-wide assembly for peace day, including all the jr high students from the farm school and all the little ones attending the montessori in redlands. while we were walking to the assembly, i gasped when i saw the kids - LOOK! HOW FUNNY!!! THEY’RE ALL TIED UP!!! then someone explained it to me, and i thought it was really cute the way they walked the kids over - what they do is have a rope with loops in it, and the students put their hands through the loop. they can hold the rope, or just have their hand there, suspended by the loop in the rope, and they all walk together. not once did i see any of the kids take off in another direction - they were all guided by this rope. it didn’t necessarily pull anyone along, i think it just slowly guided them. they even had the 18-month-olds walking like this too! it was such a simple trick, but it worked to keep all the students together. amazingness…
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Friday, September 23, 2005
picasso
so today was field trip friday, and i planned a digital photo scavenger hunt for my students. one of the items on the scavenger hunt list was to recreate a famous piece of art, and some of the students posed as “the thinker” while wearing halloween costumes in the middle of walmart (2 other items they needed to cross off their list). however, i think this is my favorite pic of all the ones submitted - these four decided to re-create a picasso painting.
aren’t my students cool?
Monday, September 19, 2005
done with work
okay, so it’s already 5pm, and i’m still at school - grading and recording work! at least i’m done with 4 of my 5 classes that i teach, so i think i’m gonna call it a day and go home and take a much needed nap!!!
*sigh* the life of a teacher… class gets out at three, yes, but my responsibilities go way beyond that. i still need to lesson plan for the rest of the week! *sigh*