Terrible Tuesday
WHAT A WEEK! I feel like this week is hello in person, and its only Tuesday. The boys have been way way off, so I've resorted to the method of 15 minutes of instruction, the rest of the class guided practice seat work. Its an effective teaching method but damn its boring for me! However, untill they can get it in check, such is life in Mr. Sciullo's room. I have a couple pieces of the puzzle figured out. One of them being my aide. She just doesn't have the patience and understanding, I feel, to work with kids who have these kinds of problems. She went into some speech today about graduating high school... HELLO these kids are ten! A third of them probably will barely pass High School as it is, the other two thirds are worried enough about passing fifth grade moreso than whats going to happen eight years down the road. Yes I agree we have to look forward to the future but lets try to get thru fifth grade instead of jumping thru twelfth. SO, the foremost reason this speech bothererd me was becuase these kids dwelled on that all day! She went into this whole wroking at McDonalds and not having a car to drive bit. I just find it incredibly intriguging that she can sit and argue with a student for one hour to do 8 comprehension questions when in thirty minutes I had the comprehension questions and a quiz done with this child. I dunno, I'm done bitching.. it is my job and I love it! I did piss off two colleagues today though, I think. For the Haunted Courtyard next week, we asked teachers to donate a jack o lantern from their class to decorate the outdoor classroom... I got a note back from a teacher that said " I would never have a sharpe object in my classroom like a knife in my room. I dont think we are even allowed to do that." Now come on, I'm intelligent enough to realize that carving a pumpkin involves a knife, and I'm also perceptive enough to know that a teacher would be very careful about who handled the object, not to mention more than likely not allowing a student to handle it. ALSO, does she really think I'd send a memo out to the whole school about this w/o the approval of the administration???? The other teacher involved one of her students who fell at Recess. The student was laying on the ground like she passed out, another student picked her up and she was lifeless. She complained whenever I got anywhere near to her leg and knee, therefore I sent for the SCHOOL NURSE and found her teacher. I'm in no position to have a kid walk to the nurse when the nurse can easily come to her. Well the teacher didn't like that I sent for the nurse I guess... whatever! It was the end to a bad day, my fuse was short... The girl claimed she was really hurt, I'm not going to make that call when we have a nurse to do that in the school!

Tutoring with Shannon went well. The hour went fast.. she's a good kid... another session tomorrow followed by a couple hours work at school and its finally Thursday! Thursday means storm drain cleaning! When will I learn to say no????


I hope all is well with everyone, I've soooo been the slacker on both entries and reading others! My bad!