First of all, I know I totally made up busy-ness. I was going to spell it with an i (business) but that's a totally different word.
Anyway, soccer practice started this week. Jimmy said it went really well. Jimmy is helping one of the other dads coach. He said the kids had a lot of fun and really worked hard. There are a total of six kids on the team. Three play on the field at one time. A little girl from Garrett's kinder class is on the team. We have practice twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays) and our first game is on Saturday, Sept. 27th. I'll post pictures!
I did not get to attend practice because I was at a technology training. A few years ago our district added an elementary technology person to our school district. She is a former teacher who is awesome! She figures out how to work all of the programs we have and then she meets with us once a six weeks or so to share information about how we can use technology in our classrooms. She also holds workshops after school and in the summer to teach us how to use these different programs in our classrooms. And the cool thing about these workshops? We actually get paid to attend them! She looks for websites/activities that we ask her too, etc. We have to turn in one technology project per six weeks and she has made this task SO much easier to complete! Thanks A - You rock!
Jimmy and I are still getting used to be the parents of a middle school child. At elementary school she had a responsibility folder. She wrote in it each day and her teacher initialed it. We signed it each night. Well now, she throws everything in a zippered binder and I have to dig through it and see what her homework it. This week I fell down on my job and this is why she came to me at 8:45 to show me her science study guide - FOR THE TEST THAT WAS THE NEXT DAY! Sigh. The bad thing . . . I think that this is only the beginning.
The good thing is that our district has a program where I can check all of her grades on line any time that I want to. I can see each assignment that has been counted for a grade and what grade she received.
Winter kickball will be starting soon for us so that is going to add two more nights of practice for us to attend. Jimmy and I both have to attend since he is the coach and I am the ball girl, I mean assistant coach. (I need to learn how to do that neat strike through thing.)
I need to pick my DI team and get started with meeting with them one day a week (after school). I know that tutoring will be starting soon.
Uggh . . . I don't like to have nothing to do, but it seems like my calendar is starting to fill up really fast!
2 comments:
Hey Teach,
Our district provides each student wtih a planner, and by the time we get them as freshmen they're pretty well trained to write their homework assignments in their planners. These are the kind that have one week over two pages - with small spaces on weekends. I know the teacher supply stores around here sell similar ones. The ones from the school are pretty cool - they have our PRIDE (Prepared,Responsible,Integrity,Determination,Engaged)logo on the front and important school site specific stuff inside (bell schedules, school event calendars, rules etc. and a section of reference stuff in the middle)
Oh my gosh Elizabeth! When our kids were younger, we were constantly on the go too, so I can say "Been there, done that!"
However, now that they're older (senior in high school, senior in college) we don't do all that running. I can remember being soooooooo thankful that we had ONE free night during the month of September one year! Somehow we got through that, and now I do all I can to stay home and relax.
Good luck!
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