End of the year - again - almost

Yesterday was the last day of school, not so bad for a Friday, the 13th. As usual it was crazy, with a real lack of structure that I hate. I didn't really appreciate being ambushed with Silly String by a deranged looked future sophomore, but at least it matched my shirt. My fourth grade math students were a little nuts, so off to the computer lab we went for everyone to have a chance to try ClassChatter before the summer. I've gone high-tech since the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year, and I started my kids on blogging. I'll be moving up with them, so hopefully when school resumes at the beginning of September, they will know how to blog using this particular web site, and will have had some experiences composing on the computer. From the looks of their first posts, we have some work to do! I managed to get more overdue library books back, not as many as I would have liked, but with fewer belligerent exchanges as in the past. Do they just not care that their book was under a cabinet, and someone else found it? What was the purpose of five weeks of overdue notices if so many kids ignored them? I need to do that better next year. But for now, school school is done..............but Walden University continues. In pursuit of higher education, I'm also going to school, but I have to say, I enjoy it, and the reward has been awesome ideas for my classroom as well as a complete change of philosophy as I become a much better teacher after 30 years in the business. See? There's hope! But in the meantime, I plan on writing my papers, communicating with my soon-to-be fifth grade math students, becoming reacquainted with my sewing room, and finishing the socks I started knitting a couple of months ago.