Nov 26 2013: Frankenweenie

Breakfast day!

We’re working on getting up a bit earlier these days to get ready for when we do have to be on a proper schedule and actually in school and things like that. So, Tuesdays, we’re going to breakfast! Our alarms go several times by 7:15 and soon we’re up and rarin’ to go!

Okay not that awake, but still. Enough that we’re dressed and walking to the school.

We didn’t miss it, yay!

And yes, it was delicious. There were assorted dumplings, egg rolls, and yummy jelly-ish donut things with crumbs on top. And rolls and yummy noodles and other good things. Oh like the rice pudding porridge thing [ten times more watery you can see separate flakes and stuff]. We were well stuffed!

Staggering back to our office, we sat at our desks and began devising plans for the week. And I read a bit.

Then we taught classes!

My Grade 3 Class 2 was my crazy class but… I don’t know what happened. I really don’t understand. They came in from jump rope outside, hugged me, asked to write the grade system on the board [they all love doing that], and they were GOOD. Possibly because we kept doing the trivia game from the day before, I don’t know. But they behaved! It was awesome! They were a bit loud but everyone was pretty good and happy and paying attention and things went well. Crazy or crazy? It was awesome!

We went to lunch afterwards.

The cook still didn’t think we were eating enough [he’d circle us around and then mysteriously return to the kitchen], and came back with… definitely not fish sticks.  It was meat, with weird bone pieces between them. And while the fish was decent even if cold, this meat was not. It was fat, it was dark meat, it was mystery meat, we were about gagging on the sticks. We gave up after two sticks and I think we handed the rest out.

Katie headed home after that, and I returned to the office.

I listened to Dracula and planned out a few lessons about Thanksgiving and such. When I was done with that, I went back to reading things online for a few hours until it was time to teach! I headed off to Grade 4, who was getting a little out of hand, unfortunately. They used to be so awesome! I don’t know what happened. It wasn’t a disaster, but I know they do much better usually, you know? Oh well…

Grade 5 was the same, as well. I covered Thanksgiving and did some review, trying to keep their attention but it wasn’t really working. Although when I walked in, they were listening to a ton of music and we had some of the boys dancing- pretty awesome! Haha, but once class starts, they’re not so great. They went from my best class to my worst. Why?

Anyways, I taught Grade 3 Class 3 after that, and they were decent. Such cute kids! It wasn’t the best, but it wasn’t too bad. I covered a bit of Thanksgiving, some trivia, and in the books.  They weren’t too terrible and I even gave them a bit of time for DVD before heading out.

Katie returned by then, talking to a ton of my kids at the doorway. Which by the way, Abby and Greg covered with their kids hand turkeys [you know what I’m talking about], and often I had my kids coming in asking to do the same. I had an old stash of colored paper in my desk so I made sure to have a few extra sheets out for the kids doing that. I also had some of my kids drawing them during other classes, adding stars and hearts, and bringing them to me to put on my wall by my desk [I have more than the other teachers, haha!], they’re so cute!

Anyways, we went back to the cafeteria for dinner. It was good! Our plates were filled with food! I even put the super sour sprouts dish on my plate [so gross], in hopes they would get the idea we don’t need more food! And yet… more mystery meat sticks. Not cool. Luckily Abby and Greg actually came to dinner once [they rarely come to the meals at the cafeteria, which I don’t completely blame them, but Katie and I just want free food, so…], so we left the sticks in their care as we left.

That night, we were going to give Abby some dishes to use for Thanksgiving so we ended up doing a little movie night with her.

She arrived with her DVD player, and we popped in Frankenweenie [which is a very awesome movie], and started watching that. Abby shared all her snacks with Katie, and I worked on getting more things posted to the blog whilst watching the incredible movie. Then we closed it up, gave Abby the dishes, and hurriedly headed to bed after the long day!