Thursday, January 10, 2008
A Little Bit of This and That From School
School has been very busy this week. I finally finished up all those lovely comments on the report cards where you try to be super sweet and yet honest at the same time. It's really a tough thing to do, especially when you are a very frank person and just like to tell it like it is without sugar coating it. Thankfully, I recognize that I'm that way and so I've on many occasions discussed how to approach certain situations with the principal and other teachers, so that I can be a little nicer with my candidness.
My patriotic theme in the classroom came along with a cd full of all the famous patriotic songs. My class wanted to listen to music today while working on their reports, so I turned on this cd. Now, the songs are the original versions of most of them, so some of them sounded like old people singing and of course, was not in the style they are familiar with, so there was laughing throughout. And a lot of, "I've never heard this song." I guess growing up in a family where a lot of relatives were in the Army and my dad being in the National Guard, I just assume people know the songs that represent their country. I remember being 10 years old during the first Gulf War and marching in parades, wearing army fatigue, carrying posters to support our troops (my aunt and uncle were both sent over to fight), and singing Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA", which I thought was called "Proud to be an American" for years.
Tonight was family game night at school. We sat around playing board games and card games. I beat all the 5th grade girls in a rousing match of Chutes and Ladders and then moved on to play Rook for the first time ever. Normally, I probably would have just said I don't know how to play, so why don't you get someone else to play. This time though, the people wanting to play were very special people. They are my adopted St. Louis family. The Brazzys are the greatest and have just made me totally feel like a part of their family. I'm the most wonderful daughter of the family, which doesn't please the other daughter, who now affectionately calls me her "evil stepsister" (I'm dead if she reads this on here). Anyway, they were so kind as to teach me how to play according to the actual rules located in the rulebook. We played the beginners version and once I had mastered that level and beat the socks off them, we moved on to the classic version. Mom and I lost thanks to one bad hand, but hey, I learned something new today.
Questions, comments, concerns? Please feel free to E-mail!
My patriotic theme in the classroom came along with a cd full of all the famous patriotic songs. My class wanted to listen to music today while working on their reports, so I turned on this cd. Now, the songs are the original versions of most of them, so some of them sounded like old people singing and of course, was not in the style they are familiar with, so there was laughing throughout. And a lot of, "I've never heard this song." I guess growing up in a family where a lot of relatives were in the Army and my dad being in the National Guard, I just assume people know the songs that represent their country. I remember being 10 years old during the first Gulf War and marching in parades, wearing army fatigue, carrying posters to support our troops (my aunt and uncle were both sent over to fight), and singing Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA", which I thought was called "Proud to be an American" for years.
Tonight was family game night at school. We sat around playing board games and card games. I beat all the 5th grade girls in a rousing match of Chutes and Ladders and then moved on to play Rook for the first time ever. Normally, I probably would have just said I don't know how to play, so why don't you get someone else to play. This time though, the people wanting to play were very special people. They are my adopted St. Louis family. The Brazzys are the greatest and have just made me totally feel like a part of their family. I'm the most wonderful daughter of the family, which doesn't please the other daughter, who now affectionately calls me her "evil stepsister" (I'm dead if she reads this on here). Anyway, they were so kind as to teach me how to play according to the actual rules located in the rulebook. We played the beginners version and once I had mastered that level and beat the socks off them, we moved on to the classic version. Mom and I lost thanks to one bad hand, but hey, I learned something new today.
Questions, comments, concerns? Please feel free to E-mail!
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