Three day weekend

I haven't posted in ages. I had an ok week. All of a sudden I love my eighth graders more than anything. I don't know what happened but this week I just thought they were all hilarious and awesome and wanted them to hang out all day. I actually feel like I may have lost some ground with them because once you start loving them and thinking they're silly, you aren't on them all the time to get their behavior in line and get back to work. I need to get a little more strict this upcoming week.

Speaking of which, three day weekend this weekend which equals short week! Alright! Our at-risk letters are due this week, which means I am going to have to spend a lot of time at school doing that. Any student who might not pass your class has to have a letter sent home saying that so the parent's don't freak out at you about it. Also, we are having back to school night or some sort of equivalent this week so I'll be at school really late one day of the week for that. I am really scared because it's the first time I'll be meeting a lot of parents all at once and they have the opportunity to ask me questions. I have no idea what I'm doing so if they ask me questions about it, there's a very good chance I wont know or I wont have decided yet. For example, a lot of kids ask how many points their final grade is going to be out of. I have no idea how many assignments and tests and projects there will be, so I haven't a clue what the amount of points is going to be. Do other teachers plan these kinds of things out so far in advance? That's not happening.

I am loving my three day weekend. So far today I've eaten and caught up with the tv shows I missed this week. Now I might take a nap. It's glorious to have free time. I have to grade projects, so maybe when I get up from my nap I'll grade the projects I have here at my apartment. Most of them are at school. I think I've finished about half of them so far, but I'd like to get them done by Wednesday so I can see if the projects affect anyone's grade as far as the at-risk letters go. Friday night I went out with a bunch of teachers. I love the other teachers at my school, I don't want to ever leave here. I feel like maybe my principal will encourage me to stay even if she doesn't think I'm awesome because there seems to be a very high turnover rate at my school and I can't imagine that reflects well on us. There were seven new teachers this year out of like 20 teachers total.

In other news, I got some bug bites on my knees which have swelled up to gigantic proportions. I always have bad reactions to bites. I also have a dentist appointment on Monday and I haven't been to the dentist in over a year since I lost my dental coverage when I graduated. I am very good with dental hygiene though, so I think hopefully the dentist appointment wont be too painful. I also need to decide what in the hell to do this week in class. I want to finish up with my eighth grade review unit and test them already. I need to do question formation and some vocabulary and then move the hell on. I think for now I'll get back to napping. Hopefully I'll find more time for posting soon. Probably not.