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friday was the day of the awaited treasure hunt. oh! it was so unbelievably coolness! first of all, i gave the kids their assessment. it was a little too long for them to finish, but i knew that ahead of time. i just needed to see how much they knew, and several of them did finish, but there are always those who don't. anyway, it's good to have too much instead of too little. when they have nothing to do, they get antsy. so, after their assessment, i got them on the carpet and read them this really cute book called 'pirate school.' i hadn't read it before. it's usually a good idea to make sure you've read a book before you read it to the kids, but since this was a beginning reader book, i figured it had to be pretty safe. it was, of course, and really cute. ^__^ definitely worth the $3.99 or whatever i paid for it.
after the book it was time for lunch. lunch was really neat on friday because ms. rogers let the kids who pulled 2 or less cards all week eat in the classroom instead of the lunchroom. she let them watch tv too. only 3 kids had to miss out and stay in the cafeteria. friday was pizza day (yay!!)! ms. rogers usually lets the kids get a treat out of the treasure box on friday, but she used the eating in the classroom as a reward last week. she's doing it again this week too. when the kids were in their specials before lunch, i hid all the clues around the room.
let me explain what i did for the treasure hunt. i took four pieces of beige paper and taped them together. i drew a map of the classroom on the paper. then, i cut each of the 4 pieces of paper into 6 sections, making 24 pieces. on each piece, i wrote a clue. for example, the first piece was the one i had and it told them where their first clue was. the clue was something like "you're on your way to find the treasure! the first clue is where you sit to take an A.R. test!" so i drew out one of my magic popsicle sticks with names on them and that kid got to go look around the computers for the next clue. everyone got to find one clue. every time we found a clue, we turned it over and laid it on the floor. piece by piece, we made the map of the classroom. the last piece was supposed to be taped to the bottom of my shoe, and it was, until some of the kids spotted it. before lunch a clue fell out from under a table and they about went hysterical! so instead of the last clue being on my shoe, i had it up my sleeve. i took it off my shoe after they saw it. the last piece of the map was the "X" that marked the spot. the treasure was hidden in the Saxon Math box. the kids were sooo excited! i felt bad though, because we went over our time a little so kids from the other classes were coming in for reading and saw ms. rogers' class having a treasure hunt, and they got slightly jealous. ^___^;
the kids were thrilled with the treasure: a necklace (either red, gold, green, blue, or purple), a chocolate gold coin, and a gold 'pirate' coin. you would have thought they just won a million dollars! three kids were absent. i gave dylan and jaxon their stuff yesterday, and poor little cubie still isn't back to school yet! oh, jarrett was also feeling pretty sick on friday, so he kept asking me how i was and have i ever felt this sick before, etc. he's sort of odd, but i like him more every day. ^___^ logan gave me a hug! ms. rogers had told everyone they needed to be quiet so i didn't have to talk loud and hurt my voice more.
ms. rogers loved my treasure hunt! she said it took a lot of creativity and preparation to make out all the clues and put them in the right spots. ^______^ she said she was glad she got to see the creativity dr. edington said i had. mrs. holloman loved it too. we had a faculty meeting after school, and mrs. brophy saw my treasure box and loved it and thought it was a cute, neat idea. ^__^ yay! the faculty meeting was about some problems that have been occurring in the bathrooms, mostly the boys. no one can go to the bathrooms by themselves now. whole classes have to go together. apparnetly, something happened and legal action might be taken against the school. only teachers who are involved directly know the full story, so i don't know very much about it all.
i went to the doctor friday morning. i called ms. rogers at 6:40 and told her i was going and i'd be there as soon as i could. i got to multicare at 7:05 or something (after being stopped by a stupid train forever) and they were being soooo slow. at 7:21 i asked the receptionist if they knew how much longer i was going to have to wait. after that, i was called back. i didn't have strep throat (thank goodness), but my throat was red, and i had some infected drainage (yummy) and fluid on my ears and stuff. what a great combo! anyway, i rushed to school and got there at 8:06. ms. rogers asked how i was. she did calendar for me, which i thought was really nice. she told me if i needed a break or anything to take one. i made it through the day, drove to lexington, and got to see someone adorable! ^___^
me and colin ate yummy food ^__________________~ and went and saw finding neverland. it was sad! i knew the lady was gonna die, but those poor kids! no mom and no dad! and a semi-evil grandmother! but at least they got peter pan i guess.
the weekend was too short (as usual), and i sadly returned home. i began feeling worse. i woke up yesterday and felt pretty terrible, but i went ahead and went to school anyway. i was supposed to have car rider duty at 7:00, but ms. rogers told me i didn't have to stand outside in the rain. i stood inside, and she told me just to go to the room. the day went okay pretty much. ms. rogers told me again if i needed a break to take one. she said if i needed to leave early and go home and rest i could. i went ahead and stayed though. i survived somehow. the kids were so sick
yesterday. 3 were absent, 2 went home, and poor halle, she was coughing so hard she sounded like a dog barking before she finally went home. they were coughing, sneezing, tissues were over-running the trashcan. sickness. yucky. (travious pulled 4 cards on the first day of the week!) after school i was supposed to have car rider duty again, but ms. rogers told me to go ahead and leave, that i didn't need to stand in the hall with screaming kids. i came home, laid on the couch most of the rest of the night until colin got home from school and called me.
today was an okay sort of day. it was differentiated math day, which i have grown to hate. i'm sick of doing fractions with a group of boys who are annoying and don't pay attention and the worst part is- i still don't even know all their names! ^___^; it was okay, don't get me wrong. it's just an hour with them is about 45 minutes too long. this morning before the bell rang, only 11 kids were there. slowly, more straggled in. we ended up only having 2 people absent.
logan had a bad day. friday and monday were great for him. he even brought back his homework and everything. today, however, started off good with him bringing his homework, but then there was an issue in his differentiated math class. i don't know if he touched someone or called someone names or what, but he got in trouble. he was crying even. the rest of the class started on their dialogue journals, and he had to finish math. when he was done, i was his partner for journals. after journals was special time, and today's special was computer lab. me and ms. rogers walked them to the lab, and then the next thing i knew, ms. rogers is pulling logan out of the lab and yelling at him in the hallway. he was probably embarassed, but ms. rogers wanted him to know how serious she was. i guess she wasn't "yelling," just talking really loud. anyway, logan sorta hit jarrett in the head, playing like. ms. rogers gave him a major lecture about how she was not going to tolerate that kind of behavior and how he was not going to act like that in her classroom or anywhere. she took him back the room and didn't let him have special time. he cried some more i think. i went and made some copies of map worksheets for brandy, and when i got back, ms. rogers said she hoped she hadn't scared me off! later on, logan started talking to ms. rogers and i heard him saying how he doesn't get much sleep because he gets home late at night. he has to go to sacramento (where he used to live) or something. anyway, he has a rough life i guess. the rest of his day was much better after that though.
i keep remembering things, so sorry if i jump around a little. yesterday was brandy's observation. i'm not sure how it went. she got told the same thing i did though about needing a system to call on students (hence my popsicle sticks). during special time though, mrs. holloman was asking brandy about her science unit she's doing this week and she said she hand't did all the planning for the lessons yet and mrs. holloman said she could NOT do that. that because of her lack of planning, hers (mrs. holloman) and ms. jennifer's plan books were not filled out completely because they had to wait on her. she told brandy all this in front of me, which was embarassing for brandy i think. ^___^;
there was a PTA meeting tonight, but i didn't have to go. ms. rogers told me she might not even go, but that no one was going to be there taking notes about me being there or not. anyway, she said i should come home and rest.
oh, did i mention my teeth have been KILLING me?! yeah, for over a week now i guess. my wisdom teeth/tooth (?!) on my left side has really been bad. my mouth is swollen inside even. i can't have anything done about it really until spring break i guess though. ^___^;
i think i've said enough for now probably!! um...i wanna play with my friend colin now! ^____^
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