Laws of Gravity

By the luck of the app, I happened to catch a day in the art class I had started this school year in . (If things hadn't been so dead la...

Wednesday. I was expecting to cover eighth grade math only to discover once I got there that the assignment had been cancelled. Sigh. But, b...

It had been a while since I caught a day at the adult transition center ( February 2023, in case you wondered ). And my year at the ATC ende...

Monday. Auto shop. (Yes, one of the schools I work at still has an auto shop class. It's been years since I had a chance to cover it, bu...

I finally got back to the continuation high school last Monday.  It used to be that the sub caller would put me over there, as she knew I wa...

Friday. Seventh grade English. I glanced at the class roster. Yup, I knew many of those names... Fourth period. Out of a class of 22, 12 had...

Thursday. Eighth grade English. Third period.  Their final, the next week, was going to be on The Diary of Anne Frank . They had been given ...

Remember Jordan ? Jordan is in Mr. J's second period sophomore math class. She pretty much took the month of February off. And much of M...

I got my door lock fixed! Finally. ( ICYMI : The lock on the inside of my car, driver's side door, broke one day . It's been months,...

I have a terrible memory for students sometimes. But that's a good thing as if I don't remember being irked by them, then the next t...

Thursday. Rain had been predicted for about a week, so it was no surprise when I woke up to lots of water falling out of the sky. I had book...

Wednesday I was back at the continuation high school, this time for the English class.  They were working on a poetry unit. (They were also ...

We are almost a month into the second semester, and I'm finding that I'm repeating myself. That's what happens when you sub at t...

"Did you ever find out who was throwing the chairs?" After the last time, you would think that I would avoid the alternative educ...

For my extra period assignment last Thursday, I ended up going back to the ceramics class .  (We are far enough into the school year now tha...

(This is a continuation from yesterday's post .) Mrs. D got back to me right away (relatively). India is 12 and a half hours ahead of us...

It doesn't rain in southern California after about April, so the rainstorm on this particular Wednesday in June was unexpected. (It was ...

So, um, we did it. Natalie has now learned how to log in to her computer.  I started this story three weeks ago . I decided to teach Natalie...

There are some things that happen in a day that make it into my note, and then I don't think of them again.  A couple weeks ago, I cover...

Biology. They had an assignment on genetic drift--a video and then a virtual lab.  Now that I have videos working, I showed the video. I exp...