Same old story, just another year...

We are already heading into the 5th week of school!  

I've gotten in to trying some crafts, and this is something I made for our elementary teacher:

She wanted a map and well, she teaches Elementary.  So while this map is not the best for accuracy of scale or important landforms, it is...colorful.  Also, it will teach them the postal abbreviation of all the states. 

I got this Cricut machine that cuts out different shapes on paper.  It has blown my mind and opened up this whole door to creativity.  I am no Martha Stewart, but it has been really fun making things.

 

Close up stitching...

So far in our 4 short weeks of school...

A male student managed to pee his pants in my classroom (a 7th grader) and I still don't know how I missed it!!  I was sitting at the front of the room teaching the whole time, so you can imagine my embarrassment when the principal was like, "and you never saw anything unusual?!"  The student didn't seemed embarrassed...I actually think he did it on purpose, but that's another story for another day.


One of my 13-year-old 8th grade girls had a pregnancy scare.  I knew it was bad when she asked to talk to me in private because she couldn't talk to anyone else.  (I had known her for 4 days!)  Luckily, she is not.  We had a long talk after that about good self-esteem and hopefully learning a valuable lesson.


Favorite quote to date for the year:


"I said 'sh' and 't' but I did not say the 'i'."