tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16719087462791296052024-09-01T18:21:36.462-07:00Colleen http://www.blogger.com/profile/02472731543604528674noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671908746279129605.post-85043996281239469432010-01-20T09:18:00.000-08:002010-01-20T09:30:30.233-08:00

I feel like I need to begin this story yesterday so here goes. Yesterday I was assigned to sub in a 6-1-1 special education classroom (6 kids, 1 teacher, 1 para) for the 6th grade. I have been in this room before and it is a fairly good group of kids. The day progressed nicely until about 11am, at which time I heard quite the commotion down the hall. As it turns out there was another teacher

Colleen http://www.blogger.com/profile/02472731543604528674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671908746279129605.post-47467820541300349312010-01-15T17:47:00.001-08:002010-01-15T17:52:28.329-08:00

There is nothing quite like starting off your Friday with a bomb threat. It really kicks the weekend off right. So today at 10am myself and a very nice first grade class were standing out, in the snow enjoying the lovely 40 degree weather with no coats on. OK, I know that I joke around about my students a lot but these kids really were excellent. We were outside for 45 minutes until we made

Colleen http://www.blogger.com/profile/02472731543604528674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671908746279129605.post-20345800136400421322010-01-12T18:18:00.000-08:002010-01-12T18:30:26.897-08:00

Today I was in our school's In School Suspension room. Hilarity ensued. I was kinda bored all morning and spent the better part of the AM hours window shopping on the Internet and reading my book. Just as a side-note I am almost done with Inkdeath and will be starting another book soon but am always open to suggestions from readers! But, back to my story, so as the afternoon progressed so did

Colleen http://www.blogger.com/profile/02472731543604528674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671908746279129605.post-20084121500078463352010-01-07T19:52:00.000-08:002010-01-11T21:28:20.781-08:00

Yesterday I had a non-school job interview. Just to preface this- I am not leaving the teaching profession but I have a very serious need to shop so to facilitate my need to shop I was thinking perhaps I should get another job. I was sitting in the interview, being asked by a 20 year old recreation director, who just grew his first facial hair, if I had ever experienced stress. I found this

Colleen http://www.blogger.com/profile/02472731543604528674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671908746279129605.post-85520245413129219462010-01-05T15:26:00.000-08:002010-01-05T15:34:30.260-08:00

As a writing assignment I asked a Second Grade class to finish the sentence "My Winter break was..." Most of the kids talked about toys, games, going out with family or parties. One student raised his hand to share his response and it went something like this... "Over Winter break I played PSP and went to a New Year party with my parents. It was so fun, they let me drink champagne." Wow, this

Colleen http://www.blogger.com/profile/02472731543604528674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671908746279129605.post-77512516238925441002010-01-04T19:23:00.000-08:002010-01-04T19:59:18.218-08:00

Today was the first day back from vacation and it went really well, odd for a change in routine for the kids. Being that this was a good day I feel like I should tell you about one of my first days at my school... There is a student at my school who is in first grade and is known only by his first name. If you teach at a school with over 1,000 kids you know that only a truly notorious child

Colleen http://www.blogger.com/profile/02472731543604528674noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1671908746279129605.post-11744849236170223882010-01-03T15:19:00.000-08:002010-01-03T18:13:22.496-08:00

Hello! This is my first post so I will take a quick second to introduce myself. My name is Miss X (no that's not my real name but for this purpose it is) and I am a substitute teacher in a very urban area. Through my experiences within my district I have been exposed to some very funny, very sad and just outright strange behavior. When I tell some of these stories to family and friends the

Colleen http://www.blogger.com/profile/02472731543604528674noreply@blogger.com0