It's a Small World

When I was teaching at Eagle Gate College, I had this nice lady in my graphic design classes.  I'll never forget her because one night she went to a club in Ogden and  Snoop Dogg was there and she came back and told us all about him.  Well this year, I have her son in my class.  He's one of the smartest kids I have.  He's really nice.  I told him that I remembered about Snoop Dogg and he started laughing. I guess that's their claim to fame.

The other girl told me she was sad that we didn't cook very often.  I told her it was because we didn't have enough money in our cooking account.  The next day- she came and told me that their family got $600 a month on food stamps and they would give me some to help out our cooking situation.  I was so touched but I said - no way- your family should buy that food.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I was teaching this awesome lesson on nutrition in my FACS classes.  We learned about the 6 essential nutrients and the ever changing food pyramid.  I didn't have any money that week in the account to let them cook but I did have all the ingredients for Chocolate Chip Cookies.  So the point of the cooking lab- was how easy it is to eat junk but it takes planning and buying good food to not eat junk.   I hope they got the message.  Anyway- the cookies didn't turn out either.  Oh my!

It's Been A While

They asked for volunteers to do a bulletin board out in the commons area.  Being a new teacher to the district, I have to keep a journal of things that I did and take pictures of all the bulletin boards that I do???????? So I volunteered.  I took Emily's favorite red blanket and hung it up cause our school colors are red and black and had the students pose in front of it.  

They actually were really excited to have their picture taken.  Then I had them write down what they loved about their school- most of the things were things like...lunch...when it's over.... my friends....summer..... but it was fun anyway.

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Christmas Vacation is Over

Today we went back to the classroom.  The school was nice and warm with the snow falling all day long.  We played a bean game which turned into an all out bean throwing fight.  One bean went down my throat when my mouth was open.  (when is my mouth not opened).  One bean richocheted off my front tooth.  Several beans went down my cleavage and I even found several beans in my pockets.

I guess the highlight of the day was when I told Diego Happy Birthday- He was born on 1/1 and he kept asking in spanish "how did you know when my birthday was?"  then he went over and got the vacuum and started vacuuming up all the beans.  It was very touching.

p.s. find the man's head in the beans.

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Never Thought I Would See That!

So today I was actually pretty excited to get back to my new students after being gone for one week of long Thanksgiving Break.  I was calling roll and trying to remember the students names when I looked at the back row and there was a boy- curling his eyelashes with an eyelash curler and a mirror?

I called out his name to discipline him and he didn't seemed embarrassed in the least.  Oh well, at least my classes are more quiet than last trimester???

New Trimester Today

Today I got mostly new students.  I did get about 10 that I had last trimester but that's okay.

I was shocked beyond belief- the classes were extremely good.  My last class that I was scared of thinking they would be like my last term's 7th period turned out to be silent.  For the first time ever, when the announcements came on the TV on Channel One- the entire class was silent for the entire broadcast.  

Unbelievable!  Here is a picture of cute little Kelsey sleeping in my class.  I was jealous that it was her and not me!