A Very Very Bad Blogger

So, September has come and gone, and with it my wonderful excuse for not keeping up with my blogging... It is december now, the school year is almost half over, and I am feeling seriously guilty for not keeping up with my blog - the one way to catalogue my firs year of teaching (besides hacking my dear husbands ear off every night)!

So, now that I have my fabulous new iPad (which is an indespensible tool for teachers!) there are no more excuses. This is my early attempt at a New Years Resolution: to blog about all of the trials and triumphs that take place in format of my eyes, multiple times, each and every day.

Today: I watched my grade nines set up the school christmas tree, and wrap each other in lights before realizing that they had just re-tangled all of the lights that had taken us a half hour to untangle... They always amaze me with their optimism! Where I was frustrated, they just laughed and started over again... I am pretty sure that the majority of their excitement cam frm the fact that the more time sent on the tree, the less time there would be for English, but in any case, it was a nice way to start the day!

Now I am marking distance learning English 20-1 modules, and let me tell you, it is one incredible student who can complete these modules and find success in them... I never, ever could! The questions are vague, repetitive, and lonesome. I wish that my students could all have normal lives and come to class everyday and not have to worry about working to help ith the family... I keep reminding myself that "teenager" is a new idea, and they are not actually that hard done by.

Well, thAts it for now, stay posted (if you are patient enough), for some thoughts on teaching English at the high school level, in a combined grade setting... Should be fun (if it ever stops giving me nightmares...)

ttfn :) Ivy