tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12551311773551137412024-02-20T13:49:19.307-06:00One thought at a timeWoman On a Mission...
Blogging might actually help me articulate and clarify my VERY complicated thoughtsusamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1255131177355113741.post-87530515131427364522011-06-03T16:40:00.000-05:002011-06-03T16:40:52.656-05:00Must be nice to have 3 months off...School is out...
Time to sleep in, relax, and forget about everything school related...After all, 3 months off during the summer is the only reason why we, teachers, do what we do... "Must be nice to have the summers off."...Right?
Last Thursday, was my last day of school.
My books are packed, and my classroom is "boxed up" and ready to be cleaned; my computers are unplugged, ready to be usamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1255131177355113741.post-46736933240130193492011-05-13T15:08:00.000-05:002011-05-13T15:08:37.431-05:00I Love My Job... Yes I do"I love my job, I love my job, I love my job..."
How often do I repeat this little phrase?
I say it every August, when I get all excited with preparations for the upcoming school year: from repainting and re-arranging my classroom, to creating new materials, to getting new equipment, or even to the simple pleasure of unpacking new school supplies (Yes I am a true nerd, and one of my usamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1255131177355113741.post-24529860692239486602011-04-20T22:28:00.003-05:002011-04-21T20:51:25.855-05:00So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good-bye...Prom is over.... You know what that means????
Rampant "Senioritis"... Oh! and Graduation is just around the corner...
Scary, I know... Not only because I just realized that I only have about 15 classes (yep 30 school days) left to cram in the rest of my curriculum...(Just kidding) But mainly because I can't believe it is almost time to once again say goodbye to another fabulous class...
So usamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1255131177355113741.post-4622174158520837022011-04-02T23:01:00.003-05:002011-04-03T14:45:57.044-05:00Where The Heart Is....It all started with a former student's Facebook Status :
"If you want to know where your heart is look where your mind goes when it wanders."
~Henri-Frédéric Amiel~
For some reason this quote really hit me square in the face as I was lazily browsing through my Facebook feed this morning ... Because my heart has been aching, and my mind has definitely been wandering....
It is no secret thatusamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1255131177355113741.post-33788096213485572522011-03-12T18:37:00.001-06:002011-03-12T18:46:15.755-06:00Don't Talk to Strangers....At some point in our lives, we have all had the "Don't talk to Strangers" talk. We have either received it as a kid, or now that we have become adults, we have given it ourselves.
As a parent, I too have given that speech. My two kiddos have been warned of strangers; real ones and "online" ones.
So all is good... Or should be...
Except for the fact that this recent incident made me think; got usamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1255131177355113741.post-92175292457884096752011-02-17T12:58:00.001-06:002011-02-17T13:05:04.128-06:00Where the H*@* is Mimi?It happened again...
Just like last year...
M.E.T.C. 2011 just blew my mind...
Everyone keeps asking me "How was it?", and all I can answer is "Awesome".
I feel like a giddy 15 year old, who has no (or has lost) her vocabulary.
Yes, I'm crushing on you M.E.T.C... You once again left me speechless, and lord knows that doesn't happen to me very often.
How do I explain? How do I tell people that usamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1255131177355113741.post-54122957475949346272011-02-09T13:38:00.007-06:002011-02-23T22:27:01.446-06:00Skype You Later Alligator....We did it... We finally did it....
Repeat after me... " I Skype, you Skype, he Skypes, we Skype."
OK, let me get off my cloud, and backtrack for a sec, so you too can share in my euphoria.
Every year, students in my daughter's school (Cathedral School- MO) participate in a wonderful whole school geography project. Each class selects a country; and for a 2 weeks period students conduct researchusamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1255131177355113741.post-10939774029160022682011-02-01T14:56:00.000-06:002011-02-01T14:56:25.066-06:00#30 Goals Challenge Day 1- "Be a Beam"If I thought today was going to be a "lazy" snow day, I was way wrong. Leave it to @Shellterrell to once again come up with something to challenge me as an educator and get we all worked up.
Shelly challenges all of us to take the #30days Challenge. (did you know that more than 4600 educators participated last year?) She suggest 30 "short-term goals we reflect on and see how they helpusamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1255131177355113741.post-16615514297650545832011-01-25T17:00:00.001-06:002011-01-25T18:14:59.841-06:00Who Are You Calling A Sheep?"Don't be a sheep."
If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, I could probably be retired by now. If I had had to give out a nickel for every time I said it myself during the first 13 years of my teaching experience, my bank account would probably reflect a very negative balance (Wait, it does, but that's something to discuss in another post)
The point is, that I am not so sure that this usamimi74http://www.blogger.com/profile/08963693355973924092noreply@blogger.com6