Neptune Festival (9/26)

Me and Miss Amy Richardson, resident historian, currently working at Great Meadows in Nova.


King Neptune.



Sand sculptures.


And more sand sculptures.

Mary's Final Family Weekend (9/28)

Future Christmas Card...

Booface Goes to School

Today, Slider was signed up for Beginner's Obedience school at Pet'sMart. He is very excited. Mom and Dad - when available - will attend with him every Tuesday night for 8 weeks. These one hour classes will teach Mom and Dad how to teach him to do what they want him to do! His future teacher, Philip, said that by the end of the class everyone plays dog-tick-tack-toe - what fun! This will also help Slider with his newly discovered "issues" with other larger dogs.

I teach Grammar!

So the first week of school i observed. this second week i dove in and am now teaching! Though I'm still just an assistant teacher, my lead teacher and I split the day. So on Monday and Tuesday and Friday I taught Grammar and Omnibus, and Wednesday and Thrusday I've taught Algebra and Writing (Latin on Thursday). I've also stayed late on Wednesday to talk over our lesson plans for the upcoming week. It's been really great. I've learned a lot about teaching already. And I learned really fast how hard it is! It's like putting on a one-man show for 3 hours (or 1 1/2 since I teach half the day). I get home and just want to take a nap! But I run errands, make dinner, and then lesson plan. I'm definitely going to bed a lot earlier now! Thursday afternoons I will be babysitting Maya - I'm really looking forward to that. Grammar has obviously been my favorite part of teaching. We have to teach jingles. (Jenny can sympathize because she is teaching Shurley Grammar as well.)

Ready? Ok!

A sentence, sentence, sentence
is complete, complete, complete
when five simple rules
it meets, meets, meets

It has a subject, subject, subject
and a verb, verb, verb
and makes sense, sense, sense
with every word, word, word

It starts with a capital letter, letter,
and an end mark, mark
now our sentence has all its parts

REMEMBER
Subject, verb, com-plete sense,
capital letter, and an end mark, too
our sentence is complete
and now we're through!

So that's fun to try and get 11-13 year olds to get excited and participate with that. So if teaching grammar is the highlight of my day, algebra is its opposite. (there's a jingle for "the nyms jingle" for hmonyms, synonyms, antonyms, and opposites.) I taught algebra for the first time today. It wasn't even real algebra, it was a review of division. And it was an abysmal. If the kids get any of their homework right, it will only be because some of the answers are in the back of the book. But tomorrow will be better because now I know better how to prepare for it. So i'm not disheartened yet.

Yet.

Okay, i'm going to take a nap now.
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