July 2, 2014

Tomorrow is Jazzy's last day of summer school already! Those poor teachers:). Today was a "parent-teacher conference" day. The student teachers had never done a parent teacher conference before:) Mr. Adler from Cleveland, OH, is the math teacher. He's probably around 20 yrs old and seemed to handle the kids pretty well. The reading teacher, Mr. Lyman...probably around 22 yrs old, said to me today "Well, it's been a little different than we anticipated ... our first time teaching":))) He was referring to the wildness of the kids, I believe. Being so young and never having taught school before, I think they may have thought that the kids would just sit there all day and listen. Ha, ha, ha.:) I guess he's learning very quickly that is not the case:))) When I walked in the room at the end of the day, there were paper airplanes flying, toys everywhere, screaming and yelling... wow. I couldn't even hear myself think. It IS summer school...:)... but it was really out of control. I received a packet of Jasmine's work and the evaluations showing that she moved up a couple of notches in both reading and math, so it was worth it. After school, we went to our first piano lesson with our new teacher, Carolyn Merrill. My photo taking capabilities with my phone continues to decline. Back to practicing piano every day. Ugghh.... :)