Well, it's been a fun summer , but reality strikes! School is back in starting today, and it's back to being "Ms Crow" for me! This is definitely going to cut into my computer time! Less GC and Ancestry.com (my other place to play). So you guys are going to have to click that first link in my sig more and dig up the answers for yourselves! Granny's cutting the apron strings! Good/bad news is that I'm only working part time this year ( I am 64, ya know ), so I won't be totally "jumping ship"! I'm down in the lower grades (2/3) for a change. And having such a great rep at work has allowed me to, once again, skip the drug tests! (Always do your job to the best of your ability- it can pay off in unexpected ways! ) It's been a blast, but "life happens"! And I'm off to "play with the dead" over at Ancestry for a few minutes, and then to school! Granny
Teach those kids cursive writing! I still can't write in script because of the damned third grade teacher...
Don't worry, like old Arnie "I'll be back!" (He and I share a birthday, incidentally. lol) GC will help me unwind after each day! I'm just doing the after-school program this year. Almost zero stress- but I'll still want to unwind! Brian, I explained to several little darlings today that kids with better handwriting almost always get better grades. ("And after too many messy papers your eyes start going all "wibble-wobble" and your teacher might get grumpy! And if that 0 looks like a 6 to a grumpy teacher, you might get the problem wrong!" It's fun when you can "ham it up" for the little ones! ) And on the playground, we discussed biological differences between a spider and a grasshopper -plentiful at the school, to the delight of the "hypers"! lol. We had about a half-dozen kids doing a "run, stop, crouch, run, stop crouch" chasing the hoppers all over the yard! I "ID"ed a few plants by name to some other bug-hunting kids and "The Indians used it for...". Suggested a better way to handle a problem between two boys- before it got out of hand. I try to teach practical stuff. Sad news, Granny is going to miss 4:20 M-F until summer ; my schedule keeps me there later than that,....but I'll just make up for it when I get home! lol No prob! (And no, I don't go to work stoned.) Granny