First Day of Finals Over

Today we had half days with longer periods to accommodate finals. My printer is not set up to the students had to do more writing.. oh well.

I start the day with a list of 16 words and explained their meanings. I then game them choices to make from a list of 16 definitions all mixed up. For most of the students it was not difficult. Some were there not to do the final and had to be warned. Then I put a spider of association for one of the movies up. I then explained it and then they wrote from the cue on the board. I did that for the second movie, Flicka. It took each of the classes the entire time to get down and do this kind of work. They were a little short when it came to the 2nd movie.. although those that were trying were clearly different from those that were just getting by.. same old story.

The classified settled for Cola on Friday. 4.54. They were a little apologetic about settling. There were advised by their pro to get out what you can and health care cannot be made retro active.. So they traded down and up the number. We will have to consider where we are since money hasn't really been to the table yet. I am hoping that teacher safety can be adressed first. Our next session is January 10th.

We were supposed to get our first walk through for moving this afternoon. It didn't happen. The manager didn't show or leave a note that she wasn't coming. Of course Sue and I have been cleaning up the digs for her to come through.. It needed it anyway. We are hoping to be back in the new old house by January 12. Still need some cabinets and a new heating source. Bathroom and the laminate are almost complete. They still need to take my office apart and the blue room. The mural is finally going to go.. no more sun. Its really cool that we have new e-glass windows throughout the house.

Take care

Love
Pat