ah, tuesday

today, today, today...

today i....took my lunch to school and it was delicious (ham & cheese, pringles (hot and spicy, mhmm)
today i...planted flower seeds with my first graders on the roof. this might possibly be my new get away. it was just so lovely to see the view. also, it was very windy and the seeds were blowing everywhere and my kids were chasing seed packets all over the place. it was rather cute.
today i...got so pissed off, i almost cried...again. so for the afternoon classes there are probably 4 or 5 different sets of classes: BTN (better than native, ha), english time, esl phonics, TREASURES! (ugh!) and some others. I teach BTN, English Time, and....Treasures which is the devil. My last class of the day is the WORST! they defy me and try to make my life horrible. Ever since my boss came in and told me in front of them that I'm asking them to do too much (by making them do work that they CAN do) they just....I don't know. So we read a story Thursday and then today I came in and started asking them if they remembered the story, etc. "yes, we remember"..."well what was it about"...."rabbit"..."what about the rabbit"..."i don't know"..."read it again and we'll talk about it"....they read it again...asked another simple question. all i got was shrugs. then one of my kids said that he wasn't going to do the work. so i told him to go to the corner. he said no. i drug him there. he later told me that he was going to behave and didn't. i slammed the door and left. when i went to the office to take care of something that no one ever told me about i was telling my boss about it and she just kind of shrugged her shoulders. and then i said "i don't know what to do!" to which she replied "if you don't know then i don't know either"...I JUST TOLD YOU THAT THEY DEFY ME!

tomorrow....mean teacher comes back. i hate having them do this stupid shit in workbooks...but really...their parents PAID for these books and expect to see the work done out of them. This is what I hate...I teach out of workbooks. I have kids who can't even recognize LETTERS and i'm supposed to have them writing. I hadn't even finished going through the alphabet with them before I got the workbooks. It definently makes it easier for me but still....AAAH!

the end...whew. just needed to get it off my chest.
tomorrow i think i might take pb & j. we'll see though.
i have to do dishes...always doing dishes..

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kimmie