Smiling Mom

My teaching staff is hilarious!! Ours school’s filled with people who just love to teach. They have that passion for life. You know?

Now what’s a good teacher if she/he can’t have a little extra-curricular fun once in a while?

Check out these two videos my staff mates made. One is a challenge issued an invitation to play Wii’s Guitar Hero after school on Friday. The other is an acceptance video. Trust me, it’s worth your time!

Youtube videos mess up the layout of my site, so bear with me!
The Challenge

The Acceptance

Yesterday I was working yard duty during lunch when the following situation took place:

Seven year old girl and her entourage walk up to Smiling Mom.

A member of her entourage speaks (Because a seven year old girl never tells the teacher her problems.  That’s what her friends are for!)

Entourage 1:  Mrs. Deeeeeeee, Jonie has a red spot on her toouuunnnge.

SM: Let me see it.

Jonie opens her mouth and a second member of her entourage points to the spot.

SM: Oh, that’s just a taste bud.  It’s a bit swollen, but it will get better soon.

E1: What, are you a doctor or something?

SM: Uh, no.  That’s just common sense.

Jonie and the entourage turn around and begin to chuckle.

E1 looking at Jonie and giggles: Whatever!  She doesn’t know what she’s talking about.  She’s not even a doctor!!

SM: Hey!!!  I heard that!

So today at school, I was teaching this really thought provoking lesson to my second and third graders during Social Studies…

Well, not really. We were introducing the new text book and were reading about the four different regions in California, desert, mountain range, coastal range, and valleys. And I was asking a very basic level question. One I believed all 7 and 8 year olds could easily answer.

SM: (in her best teacher voice) Now class, do you think that our city looked the same say… 15 or 20 years ago.

Class: Nooooo

SM: What do you think might have been different?

Class: Oh, oh, pick me, pick me!!

SM: Yes You.

You: People rode horses around instead of cars. Because they didn’t have cars.

SM: 15 years ago? Um, OK? Whatever. How about You#2 (one of the smarter boys in the class, truth.)

You#2: Well, back then our region was very smoky.

SM: (intrigued) Smoky? How so?

You#2: Well you see, Since they needed to communicate and there was no way to send letters, people had to send up smoke signals. It’s like their way of communicating.

SM: We’re talking 15 years ago You#2. Only 15 years. Are you sure?

You#2 in unison with the whole class: Ya, it’s true. (Wide eyes…serious look… and nods all around)

SM: Ok, Class… Let’ move on.

SM: (to self) Boy, we’ve got a long way to go…

Like I have any experience creating a functional website!  This website that hosts my blog was designed by my brother.

Hi Jeff!

Let me back up.  Yesterday I was working and my team partner, Mr. H, and I were chatting.  We have been in process of creating a website for our three classes, his, mine and our other team partner, Ms. S.  Mr. H currently has a functioning website up for us.  But because I desire to have control over everything was a bit curious and wanted to help him out, I asked if there was a way for me to work on the site along with him.

“Totally,”  He told me.

Great!

Well as the  on and we realized that it wasn’t as easy to share the responsibilities as we thought since iWeb works off a program on your computer where you create the web pages and make all the changes.  After you do the work, you publish it.  Did that make sense to any of you?

Ya, me neither.

So I said to Mr. H that since I only work part-time, the website would be easy for me to do with two kids running around.  WHAT WAS I THINKING??

He said, that’s be great!

I said, stupidly, “I mean, if you want me to take it over, I’d be happy to!”

At this point I was expecting him to say, “Oh no, dear Smiling Mom.  I couldn’t burden you with anything more than what you already do.  You are such a spectacular teacher and mom, I don’t know how you do it all already!”

Well, friends.  He didn’t say that.  The conversation went more like.

“Oh, that’s be great!  It’s be a HUGE burden lifted off my shoulders!”

Sh*t.

So now, folks, I’m the website programmer

This afternoon I’ve been taking my iWeb tutorial online so I can figure out how to simply open the damn program.

Help, anyone?  Bueller?