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A Ho-Hmmm? Start to School
We have had seven in-service days preparing for the new school year. Last Friday afternoon we enjoyed meeting parents and students in an informal "Meet the Teacher" event. Most of the students came, as well as former students popping in to see the refreshed rooms and greet us again. I had a number of former students trying to cadge M&M's - had to shoo them out after a while! GB and I were ready for the students, and enjoyed a calm, quiet first day with what seem to be really nice kids. GB got a Chinese dwarf hamster -- really cute! Her 3rd graders voted on a name for him. Bob got two votes, but Furry won out. Wonder how long the calm and quiet of the kids will 
last...And here we are at home today on what should be our second day of school, thanks to Tropical Storm Fay. Fay turned out to be fey, changing from a menacing mass of of weather related trouble to a mild lump of breezes and rain sodden clouds. We should have some wind, 40 MPH or so, from about 3 to 9 PM and will get several inches of rain, but we have endured worse in New Mexico and Iowa. And it's nothing like four years ago with Charley. The news media and emergency preparedness personnel were decrying the casual attitude of many Floridians toward the impending storm. I think it's that many of us know what we have to do to prepare for a real storm and are waiting to see just how bad and where -- all of the hype notwithstanding -- the storm will be and the track it will finally take. There is also the mixed message that the media gives, with reporters reporting live from Ft. Myers Beach as their L.L. Bean all weather rain gear flaps in the wind and rain, telling us how bad it is and how we should be inside with the windows boarded up. If Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel shows up, it can't be good...I really got a kick out of Al Roker in Naples four years ago, reporting from a balcony about Hurricane Charley. He had a man holding on to his knees to keep him upright, but he fell over anyway and it took several crew members to drag him in. We all knew it was an awful storm; why the histronics? So tomorrow we'll (probably) go back to school and pick up where we left off. In once sense it's almost like two years ago when we had a Friday half-day with the kids and then began with a full week on Monday. The good thing is we can always use the rain!
We have had seven in-service days preparing for the new school year. Last Friday afternoon we enjoyed meeting parents and students in an informal "Meet the Teacher" event. Most of the students came, as well as former students popping in to see the refreshed rooms and greet us again. I had a number of former students trying to cadge M&M's - had to shoo them out after a while! GB and I were ready for the students, and enjoyed a calm, quiet first day with what seem to be really nice kids. GB got a Chinese dwarf hamster -- really cute! Her 3rd graders voted on a name for him. Bob got two votes, but Furry won out. Wonder how long the calm and quiet of the kids will 
last...And here we are at home today on what should be our second day of school, thanks to Tropical Storm Fay. Fay turned out to be fey, changing from a menacing mass of of weather related trouble to a mild lump of breezes and rain sodden clouds. We should have some wind, 40 MPH or so, from about 3 to 9 PM and will get several inches of rain, but we have endured worse in New Mexico and Iowa. And it's nothing like four years ago with Charley. The news media and emergency preparedness personnel were decrying the casual attitude of many Floridians toward the impending storm. I think it's that many of us know what we have to do to prepare for a real storm and are waiting to see just how bad and where -- all of the hype notwithstanding -- the storm will be and the track it will finally take. There is also the mixed message that the media gives, with reporters reporting live from Ft. Myers Beach as their L.L. Bean all weather rain gear flaps in the wind and rain, telling us how bad it is and how we should be inside with the windows boarded up. If Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel shows up, it can't be good...I really got a kick out of Al Roker in Naples four years ago, reporting from a balcony about Hurricane Charley. He had a man holding on to his knees to keep him upright, but he fell over anyway and it took several crew members to drag him in. We all knew it was an awful storm; why the histronics? So tomorrow we'll (probably) go back to school and pick up where we left off. In once sense it's almost like two years ago when we had a Friday half-day with the kids and then began with a full week on Monday. The good thing is we can always use the rain!
2 comments:
So, did you really get 5 feet of rain? How many days off did you end up with? We could use a little moisture here - my sinuses are a bit dry.
Mom, what do your kids have hanging on their chairs?
Well, we got about 7 inches altogether and it's still raining right now. We only one one day off and we had school today - no one else in Orange County however, so there were several absences. The students have something I made on the back of their chairs - we call it a seatsack. Their desks are not very big and they put their homework and/or unfinished work in the seat/sack so they know what to pack up at the end of the day. I've made sets for several other teacher's - not much to it but a bit time consuming. I make them out of trigger or sailcloth - lighter than denim but something with very little stretch.
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