Summer School

I'm teaching summer school this year. Ugh.

"Why," you ask? Well, I'll tell you. Corey is an Educational Assistant and they don't work OR get paid in the summer, so that means we have that much less income for the next 3 months! Gasp!

"Why doesn't HE get a summer job?!" you ask? Well, I'll tell you. He started his Master's in Elementary Education today. He's already certified 7-12, but has decided he wants to teach the lower grades since he's been working in an elementary school for the last year.

Soooo, his Master's program is very intensive. He will go Monday thru Friday from
9-5 PM for the month of June. I am teaching school from 7:30 - 11:00 in June, so we will still be able to see each other this summer and we'll have the entire month of July off!! Then, he will go one Thursday, Friday, and Saturday a month for the next year. By this time next year, we'll be decorating HIS classroom!!

Now, back to me:

Summer School started today. Poor kids. They REALLY need to be there. I am teaching former 3rd graders, which will possibly be MY 4th graders in August. Wow, I'm going to have a LOT of work ahead of me when school starts if these kids are any indication of what's to come!!! Hopefully, this will only be a sampling and not a grade-wide epidemic. However, I will say this: only FOUR of the students in my current class are from my school. The others are from different schools in the county. Makes me wonder what they are doing there?!

Anyway, we didn't do much today. Mostly introduction stuff. Tomorrow we'll probably play some math games and maybe start a novel. Good times.

I want to leave you with a picture of what I wished my school days had been like...

I was totally Lisa Turtle...

I.AM.A.DUMBASS.

Yeah.

Today Corey and I went to my classroom to get it ready for my summer school kiddos. We drove through and got lunch and took it into my room. I put down my purse and everything else in my hands. He went out to unload some stuff from my car and I (being the good natured helper that I am) followed him out the door. CRAP.

The door locked behind me. So there we were. Staring into my classroom looking at the keys on my desk. CRAP.

Luckily, he had his cell phone and his car keys in his pocket, so we were eventually able to locate a fellow teacher who came and let us in the building. BUT, I still couldn't get in my classroom. CRAP.

We trolled through the school (thank GOD the alarm wasn't on) and looked in the janitor's office for keys. We found some, but unfortunately, they didn't work. CRAP.

I ended up having to call my assistant principal and he came over and let us in. WHEW.

I owe him big time!

So after that, we were able to FINALLY eat our cold lunch and finish up the work we had come to do.

Yeah. I'll be getting several copies of that key made tomorrow...

Monthly Dinner Menu: June

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