Spring BRAKE......STOP and Take a Break!!

Oh Thank Goodness It's Finally Here. 

It's that wonderful time in March where we teachers get a break from the young dears. 

And I love it. 

This is what I'll be doing: 

I'll be looking at these outside my kitchen window

and watching these: 

I'll be watching these bloom and flourish: 

After that I will most likely cuddle with her: 

I hope to spend time with these: 

I hope to catch up on reading these: 

But not these: 

Oh sure, I'll have to do this: 

But I plan on spending a whole lot of time just looking at this: 

So I brake for spring break and recharge, renew and unwind!!!! 

The Culprit

Recognize Facebook? 

That ate all my computer time last night and I didn't get a post out.

 I got to looking for old friends!!!

 It was fun though. I found a friend from HS.

 I did finally finish grading my dreaded essays, and got the grades loaded in the computer. 

I worked on and off all day Friday and got up at 6AM Saturday and worked until 11 AM.

 PHEW. 

Today is have fun day and catch up on house stuff day.

Miss. I Just Don't Have Anything To Write About

 I like Blogging. It's becoming something I look forward to at night.

 But sometimes it is hard to find something to write about. 

Then I will look at pictures. 

Then I might be inspired. 

Is this how teenagers feel when we ask them to write?

 I would say 95% of them just start writing. But what about the rest...the Miguels in my class? Here is a kid who skipped all last year. He's lower socioeconomically and from a single parent home. At the beginning of this year he wouldn't make eye contact with me. He speaks in whispers. He is uncomfortable in school and yet you can tell he's OK with being in my class.  In fact just recently he complimented me on an outfit I was wearing. That was HUGE coming from him. This year his mother who doesn't speak English walked him to class, sat with him and to this day walks him into the school every morning. It's because of her efforts that he now comes every day.  He's a junior. She is a GREAT parent. Miguel is in class!!!!But he won't write. Oh he can because I know he is smart. He's yet to write an essay though  because he says he just can't find the words. 

I told him:  Write about your MOM. He smiles: OK ...yet he produces nothing. He's got to pass the TAKS test in 6- weeks or he won't graduate. :) 

I have a tough job ahead of me. I think I'm going to give the class a project. They have to bring 5 pictures from home and can be current or old. Next week we will write about them :) These journals, writer's notebook....will be their blog on paper. I hope they can be inspired.  Who knows I might have a future blogger in my class :)