I’m listening to the sounds of the thunderstorm outside. It
sounds like we’re inside a washing machine when the wind blows curtains of rain
against the roof. I love the feeling of being safe and warm at home with my family
while the storm passes. We also need this storm desperately, as our rainfall
has been several inches below normal for the past couple of months.
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| July ALREADY?!!! |
Loving: our puppy dog’s new haircut! Every year at this time
we get our golden retriever shaved, until she looks like a puppy again. She’s
much cooler and happier, too! I have to admit that it gives me a fit of the
giggles to see her nakedness, though! Just look at her smile!
I’m thinking about my new school. I have been offered a new
job in a new district, but it’s not completely “official” yet. The principal
has recommended me to the H.R. department, but they have the final approval.
I’ve submitted my transcripts, and now we wait. (Read: STRESSFUL!!!!)
Wanting: to get started in my new classroom, in my new
school. I have so many ideas spinning around in my head, plus lists on my phone
and on my computer. I can’t justify doing anything until the new job is
official, though. In the meantime, I am trying to keep myself busy with other
stuff, like standing in line at government offices for things like car
registration and my kids’ health certificates (required in Tennessee).
Needing: to start weeding out everything that would NOT need
to get packed to move, and nobody can do that except me. Ugh! I keep
procrastinating (avoiding?), even though I know it will be so much easier if I
just GET STARTED!
The last part of this month’s Currently is to tell what
makes an “All-Star” teacher. I would have to say that my greatest teaching area
strength is teaching students how to write. That’s what my teammates tell me,
anyway. My students will tell you it’s teaching reading. Or math. Or science.
Or social studies. Sometimes they think I should have been an art teacher, or
perhaps a music teacher. Really I think it’s that my kids feel my enthusiasm
for whatever we’re doing in class, and that’s infectious.
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