I like to think that I would be a comfort for students when they cry at school. However, I felt totally useless this week when two students were balling in my class. The first students was a boy in my lunch period. When they were in line to use the restroom I looked up at…

Apparently there is a new dance move called the Moorehead Swag… it looks like kids are having a seizure when they do it. I was seriously concerned at first, then I found out they wanted to look like that. I don’t know who thought this dance was awesome, but I would like to meet them…

This weekend marked two first for the year. On Friday we had our first home football game. Unlike when we would have games in Ohio and the first one might be a little warm, it was down right miserably hot on Friday night. The band performed in the stands and we sounded pretty ok. I…

SO maybe it was not a great idea to blog about knowing a ‘Delta Downpour’ was coming… my school day was fine  but when band started after school it didn’t go so well. The band director had to go to a meeting and in the time he was gone (only 30 min.) a lot of…

When I think of all the things about the Delta that are unique one of the items that jumps out at me is the rain. This may be because as I am writing this, it is storming outside my window. Delta rainstorms go something like this: while driving home from school you may start off…

Today during my seventh period class, I was faced with an odd assortment of stereotypes. A student told me, “I wish I was Irish because all Irish people do is get drunk” When I told him that part of my family was drunk he responded “Thats the side of your family I would want to…

So my last period class is supposed to be small group learning strategies based around language arts. Today I was given 5 kids from 7th grade language picked at random, 5 kids from a different language class picked at random and a handful of kids from various classes with behavior problems. I was thinking I…

The first full week of the year starts tomorrow. I am going to initiate my behavior system in the room and hopefully will successfully teach what a hypothesis is. I am pretty excited, mainly because I actually have plans for the week, which is much different then this time last year. It feels wonderful to…

Today was our first day. I went into our morning assembly not knowing my schedule at all. Turns out i have first period as my planning period. We stayed in first period all day today. I did not see any of my classes on the first day of school. Hopefully our schedules will be completed…