Yesterday, Wednesday September 10th, a student in one of my classes came up to me on the street and screamed my name and gave me a huge bear hug. She was so happy to introduce her math teacher, Ms. Dyer to her mom. It was great!
Being in NYCity on September 11th is really quite interesting. There are a lot of moments of silence in many formats. We observed about 5 minutes of silence in homeroom. There are a lot of services happening all over the city. It's really quite warming to me that so many people want to feel connected to each other from this tragedy in the city. The students in my class were about 5 or 6 years old when the towers fell. They do not remember the skyline with the towers.
Class is good. I had a rough time with my 7th grade class today. I blame my coteacher and myself. We need to work with our own teaching styles. We need to get on board together.
I gave 5 students detention today for uniform violations. Ouch! They made it to 3rd period without anyone reminding them... well... I'm not so nice this second week of school even to the young sixth grader students.
Tomorrow I go on my first NYCity field trip to Battery park with my 6th grade advisees. They are all wonderful, yet there are a few I haven't even met yet, because they were assigned to me this week. OY!
Oh... They were taping Law and Order right 1/2 block from my school today. I looked around when I was done working, but I didn't see anyone who even looked like an actor. Cool though... lots of trailers and such.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment