The World According to Leslie

I can speak in front of my teenage students for hours.  We have fun. We learn.  We do what we have to do.    When it comes to speaking to their parents, for even 8 minutes in a group, I get sweaty, nervous, sickish!    Tonight at my school, we are doing Curriculum Night.  That means that the parents get to walk their students’ schedules.  Each “class” will be 8 minutes long. They will have 5 minutes to get from “class” to “class”.  This is a time for me to let the parents know what is going on in class, what their angels are up to, and what we will be doing after Spring Break in a couple of weeks.  This is NOT a time for Parent-Teacher Conferences.  (The good thing is that if a parent wants a conference, my school does it a little differently that any other I have seen.  The parent has to set it up with a guidance counselor.  The counselor and the student’s other teachers are all in there together with an administr...

Today, students in the 11th grade all over NC will be taking the ACT.  The ACT is a placement test for college--like the SAT.  NC has decided that instead of having kids pay to take it, they will give it to Juniors for free.  Then if they don't like the scores, they can retest (and pay for it) later.  Instead of having classes that last 90 minutes today, I will have two long classes and two short classes.  Luckily, for me, one of the long classes is my planning period.  Maybe I will get a lot of stuff done! My first class will be from 7:15am to 9:55am.  I am going to teach for about 45 minutes-an hour.  Then we are going to watch part of "The Outsiders".  I have never seen it, but the Media Center Coordinator (librarian) gave it to me from the school stash! :)  My last two classes will only be 45 minutes each!  This should be VERY interesting today! 

Today is the first day of the new semester.  WOW!  I can't believe I'm this nervous.  I have my syllabus all typed and copied!  I have all my info handouts ready. I have everything ready for the first day!  However.....  I am nervous!  I'm guessing it is meeting the new kids.  Since I teach at a high school, I get new kids today.  My previous students were WONDERFUL!  (Considering the school, I can't imagine that these kids will be any different!) I just guess that I'm anxious about meeting new people.  :)  Don't get me wrong!  I'm ready!  I have plenty do to in class today!  I just have First Day Jitters!  :) 

So yesterday, 1/2/13, was my 400th post!  I really should keep up with things like that!  Of course, I am hoping that I will almost double (or really double) the number of posts I had (total) by the end of 2013.  Some days, I just feel like there is nothing to write.  Some days I just don't have time to write.  Some days, I feel like if I write what I want to, you will not want to read it.  Anyways.... This year, since we moved, I moved the Princess to a new school.  (I never should have done that!)  However, I did.  We really aren't impressed with the school.  But, it's the district we live in.  So, I guess she will be there ONE more year....next year for 5th grade.  Then she will go to middle school.  (Her middle school has a new principal this year, and I really like her.  I'm hoping she will stick around until Chasity gets there...and is finished there.) The latest problem is that my munchkin has ear inf...