Where Does The Time Go!!

Man, I can't believe that Thanksgiving break is over already. This week flew by and I am not quite ready to return to work! I must say that I have missed my students.

We won our first game tonight (11-19-09)!! We hosted Crossett at Hamburg and beat them 35 to 8. I am so glad my players and myself needed a win! I was proud of them, they really played their hearts out!!

Joey Pigza swallowed the key by Jack Gantos

Joey Pigza is not your average kid. He is a very annoying kid because he always challenges his teacher by doing really bad things. He also comes up with some really weird theories about himself being like the Tasmanian Devil. Joey can't stand still. He can't pay attention, he can't follow the rules, and he can't help it-especially when his meds aren't working. This book should be read by any students, teachers, or parents who either have attention problems or knows someone who does. This would be an excellent read-aloud or discussion starter in any upper elementary classroom. It has really helped me to see what it is like inside someone who truly can't be still!!

Nathaniel by John Saul

For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered Nathaniel's name in wonder and fear. Some say he is a folktale, created to frighten children on cold winter nights. Some swear he is a terrifying spirit come to avenge the past. But soon, very soon, some will learn that Nathaniel lives still- that he is darkly, horrifyingly real. Nathaniel is the voice that calls to Michael across the prairie night...the voice that draws the boy into the shadowy depths of the old, crumbling barn, that chanting voice he will follow faithfully beyond the edge of terror.

I love this author and I loved this book. I just had to add it on here. It really isn't for the classroom, but I figured we needed to lose ourselves in a book that WE could enjoy just for ourselves. This is just the book for that!!

Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

A plane arrives at an airline gate unnoticed by radar & most personnel. There are no flight attendants, no pilots, in fact, no adults at all- but there are 36 passengers- all infants!! Thirteen years later, two adopted teenage boys start receiving ominous messages declaring that they are among "the missing" and that someone is coming to find them. Curious, the boys begin a search for their real identities with the help from one of the boy's sister. Their discovery leads them into danger greater than they ever imagined possible.

This book is terrific to use in a history classroom due to the identites of some of the infants and with the suspenseful ending- the students won't want to put it down!!!!

Well, we lost our first basketball game. All though we lost, I was proud of my girls and the effort they put forth. They never gave up on me and I truly believe they gave me their best. First game jitters are out of the way! We are ready now!!

WOW!!! I received the teacher of the quarter award today!! It is an award that the students vote on for the nine weeks and I was chosen for it. I have to admit that it made my year!

Never A Dull Moment!!!

I have had a very interesting couple of days. Friday (10-30-09), I had a student fall in my 4B physical education class and broke his arm. It was pretty bad, we had to call the ambulance and everything!! Today (11-03-09), I we were in the gym for an awards assembly and had a teacher pass out on us. I was the first one to her and once again the ambulance had to be called. Interesting!!!