Day 25

For a Monday, things went well today. I like my new schedule and think it will be a great improvement. I had to make a small tweak on my ILS reading class. I did not set it up long enough. It should have been 20 minutes, not 15 minutes. This change should keep my student busy for a little longer.

I received the proverbial summons to the Principals office today. Over the intercom I heard, "Mr. J, Mr. B would like to see you in his office as soon as you are available." Available, when the principal summons, I go. I worried all of the way down to the office wondering what I had done wrong. I have been pretty good since starting at Sunset ES. He told me that there was a government mandated letter that goes out in all title one schools for teachers who have not taught for at least three years in public education. What a relief. I read the letter and it sounds pretty good. It says I am doing a good job and is an important member of the teaching team. Boiler plate, but still nice to read. It also made a comment about "her" working on his license renewal in 2010. "Her!"

In science we completed the long awaited volcano project. It went well once I finally got the PowerPoint projector on. Additionally, some of my students became a little unruly and I was not happy with them. We had a little discussion on appropriate behavior. I will see if it helped.

Tonight I finally got out of school around 8 pm. So much for 6:30. It took me some time to get my book review assignment together. I believe I have it right. Staying late was worth the effort.

Not much more for now. I only had one student melt-down today and I think I solved it by giving the student an alternative writing assignment. She is into fantasy and I told her she could write an earth quake story in a fantasy setting. Time will tell if this approach works.