12.07.06

rough draft EDIT: Now final!

Posted at 8:32 pm by Becky

Now that I’m sick, I have time to blog. Blessing and curse, really.

  • It snowed a lot around here on December 1st. I think we got about 6 inches over night. Makes me homesick for Washington where school and just about everything else would be closed. I made it to school okay, except that Starbucks was closed due to a power outage (what Washingtonians!). Roughly 1/5 of my class didn’t come to school, so I threw my plans out the window and we read for fun, played Sudoku, and made ginormous 3-D paper snowflakes. Said snowflakes are now hanging from the lights in my classroom, so it’s very festive. I had lots of fun hanging them up, given the extremely high ceilings in the room. It involved a white board eraser, yarn, throwing stuff, and crashing sounds. Whee!
  • I’ve been baking a lot recently. I made two chocolate eggnog cakes and a batch of chex mix. Yum!
  • great quotes, including “i’d pictured you older” from a parent (what does one say to that?) (yeah, that will just have to stay in rough draft format… all I have is the amusing quote.)
  • I’ve been two one Christmas and one “holiday” party so far–”holiday” party at school consisting of way too much yummy Italian food (catered buffet! whee!) and a spoof on the Sound of Music. Very amusing. The Christmas party was with GCF, where we had a white elephant exchange, and again my trash was someone’s treasure. I parted with the martini shaker given to me by a student (really) and came home with silly putty and silly string.
  • Knitting club is going strong! Three days a week I help kids learn to knit, and get in a little project work myself. It’s a beautiful thing! I’ve finished a scarf and hat so far, now I’m working on Christmas presents. :)
  • I wonder if my class remembers my name…I was out for most of Tuesday on a visit to another school to observe some of their programs, then I was sick Thursday and Friday with the cold Jamie mentioned above. Man, will I pay for it next week–two days with a sub, and the week before break. I might have to break my usual “one coffee a week” rule. Seriously.