Over It

This semester that is. I am sick of professors using cooperative learning and getting stuck with people who do not care about their grades. I am sick of creating PowerPoint presentations every week, (I have to create three for Tuesday) sick of wasting paper and printing 32 pages a week for handouts, and getting online filler assignments.

I am up in Traverse City right now; I have class from 9-3 today. With my luck, the night before we had an ice storm, so the seasonal roads to get here were nice and slick. To make my weekend even better I get to sit in class today alternating between coughing and blowing my nose. Ugh.

So that pretty is much is what I do, day after day, 5 days a week, 15 weeks during the semester. Homework galore. I can’t wait for this one in particular to be over. Plus when it is over.. I get to fly out to see Baby Girl Moyer!!

With All The Power

Here at Ferris we register for classes the previous semester. So way back yonder in last semester, I registered for EDLA Writer’s Workshop, my planned professor had to drop due to family illness, they replaced another professor, who had time constraints, they tried to plan another professor, but schedules were all full so for the College of Education – Human Services, the Dean of Education took on the class. The dean of freaking education -- the one will all the power.

So in class in the beginning of the semester, she tells all 40 of us in the class that she will pay for us to go to a conference, the Bridges to Lifelong Literacy, in Grand Rapids, MI. Its 1 hour away people. Some teachers have to fly, some drive for days, some for 8 hours, we are a merely 45-55 minutes away and I am the only one signed up for the conference.

The dean told me that since I am going, I do not have to do two of the scheduled assignments! So the one who signs my diploma I am now on great standing with!!

She emails my student account about every other day with excellent teaching links. I get to attend a conference that will help every aspect of my degree/career, and I don’t even have to pay for it!

That’s America People –

I am off to do crazy amounts of homework like always – One 7 pg Paper on Tibet, A reader’s Theater 30 minute presentation that we have to perform in a local school, start of 60 minute presentation on the culture and folktales of China, and read up on the Bypassed East.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend –

Bubble Love

In the mornings I work with infants and toddlers.. Well mostly infants, but occasionally the latter. Moms and Dads come in to drop of the kids, some days its great, bye mom, bye dad, hug here, hug there, but some days we have screams, we have fits, we have tantrums.. they just don’t want mumma and dada to leave… so we give the ultimate power… bubbles.. now the fascination begins at this age, and what age does it end??

Well I can tell you it doesn’t end with three to five year olds…

It doesn’t end with five to ten year olds.

It doesn’t end with twenty one year olds.. past that.. im not sure.. try it and let me know.. but at work last week this is what we did with bubbles!

What you need:

Empty Bottle – (We used empty green tea bottles 16.9 oz in size)
Liquid Dish Soap (Dawn works best)
Water
Sharp Object (in our case, teachers did this before students were even the room)
Towels (If inside)
Straws

Clean out the bottle. Then take sharp object and cut to holes about ¾ up the bottle. One hole in the front, one in the back. Add ¼ cup of dish soap, 2/3 cups of water, and put a straw in one of the holes. Put towels down if your inside.. best if outside, but with our crazy weather we had to do this inside. Blow through the straw, create bubbles galore. We had contests to see who could create the biggest pile of bubbles. They were everywhere.. I mean everywhere.. All over the table, the floor… We were all laughing, it was fun, even for me, and I know Curtis and Abby liked it as well, they both asked if we could do it again..

35 minute lesson, group activity, fun for all ages.. Next time we do this I am going to take pictures to show the parents.. sadly I can’t show any of you, but I will have someone take a picture of me doing it so you get the full effect..

So there it is.. Bubble Love.. you don’t have to be a baby or tot to love some bubbles..

Happy Belated Wordless Wednesday on Friday

Homework

Sorry.. I have been slacking on the posts.. but since I started early.. I have a lot of time to get my posts in.. Homework is kicking my butt right now.. My parents are coming down this weekend, and I sadly do not think I will really get to spend any time with them..

My to do list:

• Tuesday - Study for Geography Quiz, Online posts for EDLA, worksheets for EDLA
• Wednesday- Read 2 Chapters for LITR 326, Read 2 Chapters for LITR 380, read 10 African Folktakes, begin Astrid Lindgren Paper
• Thursday- After work, after two classes, and then after working again until 5:30, I have to meet up with my LITR 326 class and create and finish in one night our presentation and our paper...
• Friday-Sunday - Finish Astrid Lindgren Paper, Begin and Finish 8 Page Tibet Folktale Paper, Study for Geography Test, and begin and finish a paper and presentation on The Mitten, by Jan Brett..

Some nights I fall asleep with the highlighter in my hand and my books on my chest.. so soo very sad..

so when I get some of this crap done.. I will be back!!