Blog reflection

Well, this is going to be my last post of the year. I have enjoyed writing on here about what has been going on, but December is a crazy month for me and my family. I'm still homeschooling the high school student. I wish all of you a happy and safe holiday season. See you all next year.

Thanksgiving Break

Alert! Alert! New Information! Thanksgiving break was a needed time off. I enjoyed having the time top spend with family. But, when today rolled around, I was glad to get back to work. My student sent me a text wishing me a happy thanksgiving. He misspelled four words in the text. I have to say, to much texting makes one a bad speller.

Pictures of homeschool student

Oh my, it took all day to convince him to let me take these pictures. "So, you're telling me there is a process to writing?" Grammar. Practice makes perfect. Spanish anyone? Believe it or not, he really likes it.

Some pictures of the studnets I tutor

Oh, I hate Pre-Algebra. Thank goodness for calculators! W.H. Auden poetry analysis. She did a great job!

Just another week

Alert! Alert! New Information! Well, nothing has happened this week so far. My student is back from D.C. He had a wonderful time and thanked me for "making" him go. I just could not see him passing up a chance to see the nation's capitol. I am teaching him to write a proper essay. The topic is a persuasive essay to make someone want to go see the Capitol who has never been. I am looking forward to see what he has to say. He write in a journal everyday for part of his grade and he has a unique writing style. I am also trying to convince him to let me put a picture of him on here. Wish me luck on that. For some reason teenage boys just do not like having their pictures taken.

Trip to DC

Alert! Alert! New Information! Well folks, my home school student is going to Washington DC for a field trip. He is lucky enough to have a mom that will take him. I would love to go with him but my duties of being a mom will keep me at home. I have set up a guide for them while they are in DC. He is to take pictures, with him in them, to help report what he did while he was there. He will also be writing a paper about his trip. We have been doing research on the internet so he will know what he is looking at. I'm so glad he has taking this opportunity to see the capitol.

Finished another book

Alert! Alert! New Information! I know I was just on here, but I have to tell you all about the fourth book in the House of Night Series. WOW! This girl really has problems. The first part of the book was just playing catch up. The second half was intense. Zoey, the main character, is trying to stop an evil man spirit that her mentor is trying to bring back. Zoey has enlisted the help of her friends, again. This time she has also asked her grandma for help. Things get worse. Her grandma was in a car wreck because a evil spirit is trying to hurt the people Zoey is close to. I don't want to give away the ending in case any of you decide to read the book. I'm going tomorrow to get the fifth book. I can't wait.

Home Schooling Nightmare

Alert! Alert! New Information! So, I'm homeschooling this teenager. Friday, he doesn't show up to class. I call and text him. No answer. I was getting mad. I called his mother and she calls him. He uses the excuse that he was not feeling well and figured it would be okay not to come to class. What! I have other things to do besides be at his beck and call when he thinks he wants to do school work. This is the second time he has done this in the two weeks of homeschooling. I talked to his mom and told her if this happened one more time, than I was not going to continue homeschooling him. Blah! Why do teenagers think they rule the world?

Second week of home school

Alert! Alert! New Information! My home school student is going to start Spanish this week. WOW, so much fun. It's a good thing that was my minor. He has a test over nouns and Spanish vocab this week. Hopefully we can get more grammar covered this week and move on to some writing. He wants to try his hand at poetry. I can't wait for that. It seems high school boys have a natural ability for BSing their way through poetry. Hopefully the pictures from Halloween will be in this week. My home school student hates for his picture to be taken but I think I have him talked into a couple of pictures. We'll see. Well, wish me luck on the second week of homeschooling.

Me and my reading habit

Alert! Alert! New Information! This summer in a workshop a teacher told me about a book called Marked written by PC and Kristin Cast. He teachers with PC at Broken Arrow IS. He is actually mentioned in the book. It was funny because he said "I didn't know we had a vampire problem." I really didn't think anything else about it until school started. I was talking to one of my students about Twilight. Yes, I know I love vampire books. Anyway, she told me I needed to read Marked. So I did. Next thing I know I found my self at Wal-Mart in the middle of the night buying the next book, Betrayed. What can I say, this two women know how to write. The book follows the first book in detail to what life is like for a young fledging. It reminds me so much of a normal high school. Friends turn out to be enemies, while enemies turn into friends. Oh, and to top it off, not only does the main character have one boyfriend, but three. One is a mortal, one is another fledging, and the third is a professor at school. Oh, that is a BIG NO-NO, as all of us teacher know. I have read the third book Chosen, and now I am working on the fourth book, Untamed. I've slowed down on my personal reading due to the new home school thing, but hopefully I can finish the fourth book soon. It is amazing how I can't book stop thinking about what this girl is going through. Wow, I recommend reading the House of Night series if you like fantasy novels.

A crazy week

Alert! Alert! New Information! The Halloween party went great this year. The kids had a blast. I'll get some pictures posted in the next couple of days. I have started homeschooling a high school student from White Hall. Today was the first day. I have enlisted the help of my cousin, whom I tutor with. WE have split the load. I am working on the English and Spanish. She will be teaching the chemistry and algebra. We will taking turns teaching American History. Will it is not the same was working in my own classroom, at least it is practice on writing lesson plans and so forth. I'm looking forward to it, I think. LOL. Well, at least I have something to write about now.

Hallow's Eve

Alert! Alert! New Information! What in the world did I get myself into this year? Every year my cousin has a Halloween party for our students. This year we have 188 people on the list from the age 5 to 65. My this is going to be a blast. I will have to post these pictures of this event. More next week.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Alert! Alert! New Information! Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Last time I was on here I told you all that I had been asked to resign as the tenth grade English teacher from Hampton. Well, God knows what he is doing. I'm back in White Hall and my son is so happy to be back with his friends. He is doing great in school. I have been tutoring some high school kids from White Hall. That seems to be going great. One student brought his grade up in English from a C to an A-. I have applied for an English teacher position at Lakeside in Hot Springs. The school board reviewed applications this week and hopefully they will know something this coming up week. Well everyone keep their fingers crossed for me.

Alert! Alert! New Information! I was asked to step down from my position as the tenth grade English and oral communication teacher at the school I was teaching at in south Arkansas. I was told that I lacked classroom management skills. I guess my blog is going to be boring for a little while. I have decided to move back to White Hall and sub at the schools in the area. The school I was at is in year six of school improvement and I was wondering if that could have anything to do with the situation. Any ideas?

Alert! Alert! New Information! My students had their first grammar test. I only had about ten students who past the test. I am not sure what happened. We went over the information and everyone did great on the homework. We reviewed for two days and everyone did great on the review sheets. During this process, the students worked by themselves, in small groups, and at the board. I do not understand what went wrong. I even explained to them how the test would be set up. I was told by a veteran teacher that students always do horrible on the first test. Is this true?