Another week with bronchitis; at least I had Monday off from classes.<\/p>\n
With the girls gone, my son and I watched movies, played games, ate out and played tennis (even with bronchitis and lots of pollen outside).\u00a0 I also got all my homework done, and my portfolio \u2013 the last outside-of-class assignment that I need to turn in.\u00a0 Over the weekend, I also did a training session for the Ghana Wheels for the World team (of which my son is a part).\u00a0 We had a great time.<\/p>\n
School continues.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t realize until this week that I had signed up to do my two major presentations next week while my parents are here.\u00a0 This means that I\u2019ll need to put all my effort in this weekend so I will be free when they arrive.\u00a0 I did my minor presentation on \u201cPlessy v. Ferguson\u201d on Thursday and it went well.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday and Thursday this week, I did exit interviews for 8th<\/sup> graders at the Middle School.\u00a0 I had done this in past years and really enjoyed it.\u00a0 I enjoyed it again this time and it was made extra special because half the students I interviewed were from my student teaching class.<\/p>\n I also had an opportunity to sub in Music on Tuesday.\u00a0 The Middle School has two part-time music teachers and both were out this day.\u00a0 The electronic substitute management system couldn\u2019t figure out that only one sub was needed so two subs were called and I got the latter half of the day.\u00a0 This was fine because I could still interview in the morning.\u00a0 I got to the music room early, played with all the instruments, which was a lot of fun, then looked at the lesson plan which consisted of silent study periods.\u00a0 How boring!\u00a0 I decided to give my half of the day to the morning substitute if he\/she would take it.\u00a0 At break, I found the guy who was subbing the first two periods and asked him if he wanted to do it all day.\u00a0 He did, so I gave it to him.\u00a0 It turned out that this sub was the \u201cmagician\u201d guy that I had so often followed in other sub jobs.\u00a0 Recently, the kids have started to ask me if I knew any magic tricks because their last sub was a magician.\u00a0 He was a hard act to follow.\u00a0 He was a really nice guy who had just started substituting, now that he had retired from his 30 year job.<\/p>\n Tuesday really wiped me out so I put myself down as sick for Wednesday.\u00a0 On Wednesday, I turned in my portfolio at NHU, but not until late afternoon.\u00a0 I also discovered that in order to get my ART credential (in addition to my Social Studies credential) I would need to do TPA#1 for Art, but not TPAs2-4.\u00a0 Darn! More writing!\u00a0 But at least it was only one TPA, and it was the easy one at that (I find out if I passed my Art CSET on Monday evening).\u00a0 On Thursday, I interviewed again and was let out a little early because they had run out of students to interview.\u00a0 I went home and took a nap.\u00a0 Friday, I turned down three sub jobs, though I was tempted by the half day Social Studies assignment.\u00a0 I really needed the rest from Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another week with bronchitis; at least I had Monday off from classes. With the girls gone, my son and I watched movies, played games, ate out and played tennis (even with bronchitis and lots of pollen outside).\u00a0 I also got … Continue reading