Wednesday Is Just So Ghetto*...

Wednesdays suck.

Yeah, I know, Tuesdays used to suck, but now Wednesdays suck more. I got up at 6:00 a.m., showered, ate and took off for school. Got here at about 7:00 a.m. I spent about 30 minutes finishing off my lesson plan and agenda for my 8th period class. Then the kids came in.

Not sure what was up, but the kids were nuts.

Mr. Jewett says that that is a cold front coming in and weather changes really mess up the kids. It was also "Dress Hawaiian" day for Spirit Week. The kids were climbing the walls all day. Just stepping out into the hallway during passing period was taking your life into your hands. Our lab is on the 7th Grade hallway and they were howling, wailing, gesticulating. In our 8th period class, Mr. Jewett came in to give some instructions on how to upload their Publisher files to the webserver. With step by step instructions going over all 4 steps of the process (like copy this file to this folder...) we had only 5 kids out of 20 get the task accomplished in 10 minutes. Yikes.

I started eating Tylenol by the start of 6th period. They didn't help much.

After school, I had to work on my Classroom Management Plan, which was due quite awhile back. I got that wrapped up at about 4:00 p.m. I got home in time to bundle the kids up and head to the University for seminar, which starts at 5:00 p.m. Julia's kids were not there and all of the local classrooms were filled with classes, so Emma and Spencer had nowhere to go. I tried to keep them occupied at the back of the Project Promise classroom, but was mostly unsuccessful.

The cohort talked about class rules, bathroom passes, disturbed kids and being dictators. It sounds like alot of us are having the same problems with our kids, they are tough to control. Sometimes, that dictator option doesn't sound all that bad...

Emma and Spencer took off down our little hallway during our break, trying to blow off some steam. Apparently, Spencer played with the door to some classroom, and the instructor for the class came and chewed me out. I was pretty irritated already, so I just packed everyone up and came home.

I dozed on the couch for 45 minutes or so while the kids watched TV. I was beat. Then, I had to get the kids ready for bed. From 9:00 p.m. until about 12:00 midnight, I worked on my lesson plan for 1st Period Thursday.

Just another 16 hour day...

*"ghetto" appears to be a Junior High vernacular meaning "crappy."