Assalamu alaikum
Ramadan Kareem
Alhamdulillah! I started with a cold, and am now down to just being my usual fall congested self, and I am over my lack of coffee headache!
Well, 10 minutes later, and I am back typing. I went to deliver something, and a 6th grader came out of a bathroom followed by a preschool boy, and I was told that he looked under the door at her while she was using the bathroom. I tried to send him to the office, but he would listen, and instead started walking back to the classroom. He went to his mom, and I told her what happened also. Hopefully he will be taught a lesson!
Hah, I'm grumpy with these kids!
Anyway, back to work... Hope everyone is having a peaceful Ramadan!
Thursday, October 30, 2003
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Assalamu alaikum
Eek, Grades are due. Alhamdulillah, I have lived through the first quarter of my teaching life. I have had to become a mean teacher to some of the grades and it has disheartened me... I don't like to yell and be mean but if someone keeps disturbing the class, then I have to. If I kick two people out, then I have a wonderful class, and could get a lot accomplished. However, I spend a lot of time baby-sitting and don't get to teach as much as I would like to.
Last weekend, we went to a pumpkin patch to get pictures of baby with the pumpkins! He looked so adorable, standing between three pumpkins that were larger than he is... Then Sunday, we went to a miniature steam locomotive for our annual ride through the fall leaves. The miniature trains are so cool! We sit in flat cars with built-in benches, and it is a real coal/wood burning steam engine and is about waist high. The "railroad" is a scenic ride through the forest by a small river. The weather was wonderful and the leaves are just starting to change colors for Fall.
Wow, Ramadan is just around the corner and approaching quickly. There was a survey to the parents if we should dismiss school a half hour early to give more time for families to prepare for Iftar, and 85% voted to let the kids out early... I voted that we should start school after Isha, and pray night prayers instead of Zuhur, serve "lunch" at 2:00am and let the kids sleep through the fasting part of the day :D. A couple of teachers thought it was great, but I couldn't get enough support to make the change.
I can't remember any amusing stories from school... Having to shout at two of my classes all the time drains the energy out of me, and I begin to dread teaching them :-(. Then the other three classes are wonderful, and I look forward to teaching them. So Alhamdulillah, most of my classes are wonderful, and InshaAllah, I can be more effective on dwelling on the positive instead of letting a couple of "bad apples" get to me.
Today is Judo night! I get to get beat up this evening :). Last week, I asked someone to work with me on learning to fall. Falling is the harder part because you can break bones, get hernias, and other painful injuries. So I am trying to learn how to fall and not get hurt. (aside form the normal achy muscles)
Eek, Grades are due. Alhamdulillah, I have lived through the first quarter of my teaching life. I have had to become a mean teacher to some of the grades and it has disheartened me... I don't like to yell and be mean but if someone keeps disturbing the class, then I have to. If I kick two people out, then I have a wonderful class, and could get a lot accomplished. However, I spend a lot of time baby-sitting and don't get to teach as much as I would like to.
Last weekend, we went to a pumpkin patch to get pictures of baby with the pumpkins! He looked so adorable, standing between three pumpkins that were larger than he is... Then Sunday, we went to a miniature steam locomotive for our annual ride through the fall leaves. The miniature trains are so cool! We sit in flat cars with built-in benches, and it is a real coal/wood burning steam engine and is about waist high. The "railroad" is a scenic ride through the forest by a small river. The weather was wonderful and the leaves are just starting to change colors for Fall.
Wow, Ramadan is just around the corner and approaching quickly. There was a survey to the parents if we should dismiss school a half hour early to give more time for families to prepare for Iftar, and 85% voted to let the kids out early... I voted that we should start school after Isha, and pray night prayers instead of Zuhur, serve "lunch" at 2:00am and let the kids sleep through the fasting part of the day :D. A couple of teachers thought it was great, but I couldn't get enough support to make the change.
I can't remember any amusing stories from school... Having to shout at two of my classes all the time drains the energy out of me, and I begin to dread teaching them :-(. Then the other three classes are wonderful, and I look forward to teaching them. So Alhamdulillah, most of my classes are wonderful, and InshaAllah, I can be more effective on dwelling on the positive instead of letting a couple of "bad apples" get to me.
Today is Judo night! I get to get beat up this evening :). Last week, I asked someone to work with me on learning to fall. Falling is the harder part because you can break bones, get hernias, and other painful injuries. So I am trying to learn how to fall and not get hurt. (aside form the normal achy muscles)
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