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Name: Alison
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: Davis
Birthday: 2/24/1981
Gender: Female
Interests: Chicken Ranching, Gardening, Horses and Mules, Training Animals to Jump Through Flaming Hoops, Shakespeare, Going on Exciting Day Trips
Expertise: Allegedly, Elementary School Education
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Member Since:
9/7/2005
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| Three day weekends are awesome. Instead of one day to enjoy and another spent dreading the coming week, I get two whole enjoyable days. Tomorrow will of course be filled with dread and foreboding. Can you tell I have been a bit stressed at work lately?
Today I spent some time with ponies and then trekked over to Walmart to get diaper wreath supplies. I had to improvise a bit with the wreath frame, the diapers didn't look like I thought they would, and I learned that it is hard to find green curling ribbon. But I think it turned out cute. I feel exceedingly crafty, and I expect to amaze my coworkers with my talent on Thursday at the baby shower.
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| So I survived the 1st trimester of school. My kids this year are mostly awesome with some interesting characters thrown in. And by interesting I mean driving me totally insane. I am pretty sure I did not yell at children nearly this much last year. Sad for me.
Anyhow, I am now on break for three weeks so I can regain my will to deal with the interesting ones. My goals include sleeping in, watching TV, cleaning my room, and doing some early xmas shopping. So far I have succeeded in two of those things. If I really lower my expectations for myself it makes me feel successful.
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| I feel crappy and I need to get report cards done. I think I have a virus or something. My temperature is actually 97.7 so at least I don't have a fever, but I feel cold and achy so who know what is wrong with me. I only have kids until noon tomorrow so I think I can make it through the day.
It is Red Ribbon week and the wristbands the PTA got for the kids say "Say Nope to Dope". I think that is stupid because they don't even know that dope is slang for drugs. They don't really even know what drugs are. So now I have to teach them not only what drugs are but also that dope is a slang word for drugs.
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| Last Wednesday was international talk like a pirate day and I decided on Monday afternoon that I totally wanted to celebrate it with my 1st graders. I gave myself 50-50 odds that the day wouldn't dissolve into rambunctious insanity. It turned out totally awesome. We were talking like pirates (lots of practicing the "ar" sound), Tigger dressed up like a pirate, and we read three different books about pirates. We wrote about if we did or did not want to be pirates, we drew pictures of pirates with treasure, and we even played a stealing the treasure subtraction game. The kids were soooo excited in the morning that some of them were literally bouncing around the room, they couldn't keep still. It was kind of like when a puppy gets really excited and can't stop wiggling. I was super tired and almost losing my voice by the end of the day from all the arrrs and avasts! and whatnot, but it really was the most fun I've had in the classroom since the end of school last year when we were outside all the time playing games and practicing for the end of the year dance. Now, what random holiday to celebrate next?
Bonus! Chicken as Pirate Picture!
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