Free of Pink Eye!

My eyes felt good enough to back to school today.

Several of my students were concerned about my absence. It was full bore ahead. Classes worked through a dialog day. Listening to other students comments and adding an appropriate statement to continue the conversation. These are some very important skills for communicatively challenged students at the high school level.

One of my "co teacher's" husband is a jew for Christ. He is still a practicing jew with all of the customs. She talked about the jewish traditions at this time of year.. with passover and sedar meals and passed out some matsa bread for the students to try.

At the other school, the trip to Starbucks was a bust. The other teacher got parent permissions back and everyhing was okay.. except for not getting the approval from the principal. Apparently there is a staff member that pre digests the requests and gets the appropriate signatures for such events in bulk. The co teacher did not know this procedure and tried to get the principal to sign them on her own. Didn't work that way. So.. the adventure which had such a good premise did not work. We will all try again in 11 days when we are back in school.

: ) Pat