Upsucking

Today I went to my old school for a meeting. My God, it felt like going home. Know what I got? HUGS! LOVE! And 5 job offers (although I don't think that legally a teacher or secretary can offer me a job)!

Only the principal saw me cry.

I am determined to be an Upsucker. So this morning, I Scotch-taped together 8 pieces of copy paper and taped them to the door of my borrowed therapy space for the period. (Did I mention that I don't have a room in the school? Just a desk in a shared office.) I brought my personal laptop and my personal projector and projected my lesson about Context Clues on the copy-paper "screen." I couldn't project it on the wall because this borrowed therapy space is the room where all of the props for the auditorium/plays are stored. It has dark wood cabinets from floor to ceiling on all 3 walls. In the end, the lesson was a success!

My fourth period kids are learning to use the SmartPen by Livescribe. It's the best listening comprehension they've done all year. It's worked better than activating prior knowledge and creating prior knowledge by watching video clips. And it helped them finish their late assignments in Human Geography! Hallelujah! Did I mention that I love those kids?

Did you hear that sound? It's me...sucking it up.