Another Classy Weekend

This weekend was my first personnel class... or as the teacher would say, human resource development. I guess he is right, the second does sound a lot more important. Personnel consists of hiring, retaining, and motivating teachers. Class was pretty simple... which is okay. I figure as long as I get credit, I don't care at this point how long we meet or how technical we get. Last night we were suppose to be in class from 5 - 10 p.m. Our teacher lectured from 5 - 6 and then we went on a 15 minute break. He lectured again from 6 - 6:15 then we went on dinner break until 8. We went back at 8 and by 8:30... DONE! Pretty easy night! Our class was suppose to meet again today from 8 - 4. Our professor decided 8 was a little too early so we started at 9 instead with bagels from Panera. Introductions took from 9 - 10 and then we took a 15 minute break. From 10:15 - 11 we worked on project one then took a lunch break from 11 - 1. He wrapped things up after lunch and we were good to go at 1:30. Now that is what I'm talking about! Pretty short, sweet, and to the point :)

Happy Birthday to me!

Happy News

I will finally be able to get a good nights sleep after hearing that I will be teaching 5th grade again next year at M.I.S. I told myself from the very beginning of the year that I wouldn't worry about my job again this year come "cut time." Unfortunately, the more rumors that are spread, the more I WORRY! I am probably one of the luckiest teachers because I have a GREAT principal who I know would/will fight to save my position until I am tenured. There is a special board meeting on Monday to decide who will be where next year! Please pray for the members as they make the personnel decisions next week that will benefit our District positively in the future. I find it a crazy coincidence that I start my Personnel class this weekend. I'm hoping to learn some inside secrets that I can use to improve my ways of teaching. Happy Birthday to me! :)

My Cardinals porch/Doug's man cave is ALMOST completely painted. The red walls were finished yesterday and one coat of white was added to the remaining walls and ceiling. I think after one or two more coats we can take up the carpet and paint the floor. I know it's crazy, but I have decided to put a floor paint down and then just get a large area rug to cover the majority of the floor. That way I won't have to worry about the door leaking when we get major rains. My goal is to have everything complete by opening day... we will see!

State Tournament

Yesterday was a very intense basketball game at the Peoria Civic Center as the Meridian basketball team played in the final four game. We won, but it was't pretty. Actually, I don't even know if you can say we won by playing to win. We simply played to not lose. In the first half we were up by 17 and most fans, including myself, thought the game was in the bag. Oh, no! Meridian ended up winning by only 3 points. I'm really hoping the championship game is not as close... I really like winning by 20 and have been pretty spoiled the whole season! :) The game is on TV today so check it out. Meridian is 1A and will be playing at 12:45. Go Hawks!

CELEBRATE!

I have been told by Ashley that I'm slipping as a blogger... Unfortunately, I just haven't had much to talk about!

Today was my class's final day of ISAT testing! Woo Hoo! The kids have really been pretending to work hard. We will see how hard they really worked some time this summer. The week has actually been really boring because it has been TOO quiet. I know, is there such a thing as too quiet while working in a building with 300 kids? YES!

The students took 2 tests a day starting Monday. I made the mistake of getting all my grades caught up on Sunday. What was I thinking? Since I didn't have papers to grade I decided to organize my filing cabinets. I still had some useless things in my files from the previous teacher. I also started reading the third Diary of a Wimpy Kid book. I love that series. I think the kids thought it was funny that I was actually sitting there reading the book which is a 5th grade reading level. I got a lot of thumbs ups because it is definitely the "cool" book to be reading right now at our school. I'm trying to hurry up and finish because I know that it would give Alex something to do on the car ride to Florida.

Tomorrow we are having an ISAT party to celebrate being done. It's only appropriate because all we have done this week is eat yummy snacks and test. I told them we could have a party if we had perfect attendance Monday-Thursday because then we wouldn't have to worry about make up tests. Kids are great with challenges.... not one of them was absent all week! I am going to make the kids nachos for an after lunch snack and we are going to watch Akeelah and the Bee. It should be a good way to end a very stressful week. Toby Tucker is also coming to my class tomorrow because I won the Cookie Monster contest on 95Q. He is bringing my class Girl Scout cookies and milk. Yummmmmy! I will have to do my wii fit after all the nachos and cookies!