Laziness..... sorry

I have been incredibly lazy about posting this week. No excuses, it was simply laziness. So I'll categorize my thoughts to put them into some sort of order to catch everyone up with the week.

Jimmy- for those of you who were wondering about where Jimmy went. Apparently, Jimmy was supposed to be going to another middle school anyway and was going to JIIS because his mom had signed some paper sending him here instead. So when the whole suspension thing happened, his mom just decided to withdraw him and send him back to the school he was originally supposed to be at. So Goodbye Jimmy. And now, goodbye let's call them Tim and Pete. Both Tim and Pete, both gentlemen who I believe have not turned in a stitch of homework since school began, have both been withdrawn from my class. The upside that i see to this is that I don't have to deal with their constant msising homework AND my first period class is two people smaller. Hooray.

Jane- Jane appeared on my class list for about a week at teh beginning of the year and I think I remember her actually being in class but I can't be sure. Anyway, she was MIA for the first week and then disappeared from the roster. Now she's back, after being gone in Utah, of all places, for the first month of school. So she comes to me, three days before the 5 Themes of Geography Test and a week before the Islam test, ready to learn. I had absolutely no idea what to do with her. After consulting with my wise department, I decided to catch her up on Islam so she can pass teh benchmark and give her the handouts for geography so that she can take the test next week. So she'll pretty much be spending this next week working on her own, separate from the class while I finish up Islam with them and then join us as we start Africa. Or China. Or Japan. I really have no idea where we are going next in World History. This could be a problem...

Testing- The US history teachers gave our first test this week on Chapter 2 which is basically the early colonies, colonial unrest and the Revolutionary War. Huge range of grades in the end- some kids aced it no problemo, lots were stuck smack dab in the middle and then of course, those that I knew would do poorly did poorly. Hm.... it seems to me that all those that did poorly have aproblem turning in their homework.... Connection? I think so..... I'm interested in talking to the other members of the department and trying to compare exactly how my kids match up to them. It would be really great to see if I'm on the same page with them or if most of my kids are lower/higher than theirs. It would also probably give me a real boost in confidence to see if I pretty much match up with them so more on that later.

OK, honestly, those were the big things that were happening in Room 2 this week. I promies that next week will be more faithful to daily/almost daily postings. I promise...