Teaching is like Farming

Just read an interesting article "Teaching is like Farming" - very appropriate to our area.  In both, we sow and reap, however the results are not immediate.  Sometimes the results of our "sowing" will the "reaping" by another teacher.  The article also spoke of the constant attention we need to pay to each of our students.  This include not just their academic needs, but social, emotional, and physical as well.


The farming season begins in many areas as the school year ends.  Let us look toward the fall and our new season of sowing.
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Warning

Since yesterday I am "officially old."  That is I am 65.  So have taken a new motto, so to speak.  It is Jenny Joseph's poem "Warning."  So watch out if I start wearing purple too often.

Warning

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple 

With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. 

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves 

And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired 

And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells 

And run my stick along the public railings 

And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in the slippers in the rain 

And pick the flowers in other people's gardens 

And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat 

And eat three pounds of sausages at a go 

Or only bread and pickle for a week 

And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry 

And pay our rent and not swear in the street 

And set a good example for the children. 

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practise a little now? 

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised 

When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

my version of march madness

Sometimes I was more like the Mad Hatter in Wonderland.

This year we hosted Panhandle Conference Quiz Bowl.  (The day after Parent-Teachers conferences, and middle of book fair) After many weeks (months) of planning, recruiting, etc it all came together.  Over 100 participants and coaches from six school, 40+ volunteers, and we made it though the day with only a few bobbles.

I was proud of my Middle School team.  They took First Place!! Two days before they had participated in a warm up competition at Chadron Middle School.  The high school teams did well. Kate Roberts make the All-Conference team. Yeah! Kate.

I really don't like doing all this in one month.  Fortunately hosting only happens once every five or six years.

For Read Across America and into Parent Teacher conferences the elementary participated in a Decorate Your Door contest.  A book was the theme.  Most chose a Seuss book.  The fifth grade had a red Readbox with each student contributing a book cover.   Next year we'll invite the Middle School and High School to join in.  I think they did a great job.  Some are still up, some are down.

  Yes, those are all the doors - sixth, first, third, Title, first, PreK, fourth, Kindergarten.  We are a very small school.