The sophomores and juniors had testing today (half the staff didn't remember and no body bothered to email a memo about times, etc.) so I have most the morning off. Time was spent catching up with goings-on and not on grades. Oh well. Will work on that some tonight. :(
Alg 1 went well. Didn't have much of a backup plan (all our calculators were being used for PSAT) so we did a journal page about algebraic properties and then we cut out a CScope page to show the different visualizations of algebra (concrete, algebraic, graph, table). The kids actually responded well to it although later in the day I realized there were some vocabulary words we probably should have clarified. Guess we shall do that before the test.
MMA was not great. That's juniors so they were not motivated to do any work seeing as they just took a test. I made them work anyway and we are on course for the most part. Off by about a week but that's not too shabby for us.
Geometry. Holy cow. I have to find a way to get their attention. I have random groups that will work but some that get distracted and then everyone starts talking again... But then there's the few that are just trying to answer my questions. Frustrating.
I cut a students hair today (with parental permission). Funny to see the kid with shorter hair. Hopefully he likes it. Now I have a stomach full of enchilada and I'm feeling sleepy. Have grades, laundry, other stuff to do but I'm sore today and am ready for some sleep. Perhaps I ought to sleep just so I'm not cranky tomorrow. Ok. That's all I have for now. Later.
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