It's Mystery Monday! There is only one more Monday for the kids this school year! Can you believe it? It is a mystery to me how fast the school year passes by! It seems like one minute I am setting up my classroom and having an open house and the next minute I am taking down all the posters and counting textbooks! It is a mystery how at the beginning of the year my little 6th graders are so scared and small and by the end of the year, they are confident and taller than me! How can they change so much in just one year?!
From now on, Mystery Monday will be a blog hop! Tell me what is mystifying you today. Leave your mysterious thoughts as a comment, or click the linky to add your blog post! Please spread the word and let's have some fun! *The only rule is, to post your link, you must be a follower of this blog*
In less than a month I will be in Arizona attempting my first hike! In the Grand Canyon!
My brother claims that he is going to walk circles around me, so I have been trying to prepare. I really don't want to be the one who is dragging behind and whining, so I am really trying to train, but something always seems to get in my way! For example, one day last week, I got to the gym and as I was running in to change, I spotted my daughter standing in the corner of the daycare with her back pressed to the wall. I waved to her and she ran past me in tears and into the changing room. Turned out she had split her pants. No workout that day. Had to put my workout shorts on my poor kid and take her home. Oh, and nothing like, conference night, open house, band concerts, dances and field trips to set me back as well.
Another obstacle I'm facing is that in Florida is flat, so walking around a track is probably not good preparation for walking up a mountain. I have been trying to get to the gym to walk on an incline for as long as I can, but I simply don't have time in my life for this working out thing! The largest chunk of time I have been able to walk for so far has been one hour and ten minutes. I would have walked longer that time, but there was an old man on the treadmill next to me who kept trying to run really fast and then would jump to the sides and pant for awhile like he was going to die, and then do it again. I just knew he was going to fly off or have a heart attack (or both), so I had to leave. Oh well, at least I wasn't running next to this guy!
I would like to kick whoever designed our school. Hard. In the shins. A lot. Seriously, whoever designed the "smart school" building plans that are so popular lately, clearly did not expect teachers to be working there in the school OR actual children to be learning in it. First of all, if the school was really smart, they would have put hand dryers in the bathrooms instead of paper towels. This way the students would not be able to wet them and stick them to the ceiling or stuff them into the sinks or toilets to overflow them.
If the designers of "smart schools" were really smart they would have been able to do the geometry required to figure out that kids on both sides of the hallway at lockers stacked 3 deep does not equal any room left for other students to walk through that hallway. What it DOES equal is one giant mosh pit.
Our smart school has a telephone in each room. Do you know where it calls? The office and other classrooms. That is it. Do you think it would have been that difficult to make it call out? The nearest phone is in the office on the secretary's desk if I want to call a parent. UGH! Most importantly, the designers of our smart school have so lovingly remembered us teachers. The only place to poop in the entire school is A) in the back of the library where children are checking out books B) in the bathroom with the kids fighting for the big stall and a moment of privacy C) directly outside of my boss's office. Well guess what smart designers- I would rather choose D) run out and poop in the woods over ANY of those choices. Which option would you choose?
In high school, I took musical theater classes and loved it. Have you ever watched a musical? I just love how one minute the people are talking and the next they are singing! I showed a musical, Disney's Anastasia, to one of my classes earlier this year. At one point they were threatening to scream if she sang another song, and they were only halfway through it.
Last year the kids in my class watched a lot of ICarly where they do something called "Random Dancing". Every once in a while, the kids would just do random dancing out of nowhere, then sit back down and do their work! I think everyone should random dance now and then!
This morning, though, one of the kids in my morning class sang a few lines from a song. You know, the catchy one that goes, "Today I don't feel like doing anything". Before I knew it, the class had all joined in singing, including me (I couldn't resist, and like I said, the song IS catchy!), and they even all joined arms and started dancing as they sang the entire song together. I felt like I was trapped in a real life musical! I am really going to miss these kids at the end of the year. They sure do lift my spirits, not to mention making me giggle!
Driving around in Florida, it is a mystery I make it anywhere alive. I mean, if there is an old person who should have stopped driving 5 years ago, a lost person, a person who can't manage to use their cell phone and drive at the same time, a bus- city or school, or a garbage truck anywhere around, I am sure to get behind them. Especially if I have a hot pizza in the car and want to get home to eat it. What is mysterious to you today?
I am a teacher and single mom who is always on the go, looking for the next adventure. Anything that I do is either a good time, or a good story~ sometimes both!
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