Happy Birthday to my brother Brent! Woo hoo!
I’ve been getting to school extra early lately because I never seem to have enough time for all my work. Yesterday was no exception. After running some papers off for the day, I sat down at my desk to create a PowerPoint lesson. After I finished, I looked at the clock. An hour had passed. An hour! I had only forty-five minutes left before faculty devotions. Shoot!
This is part of my problem with getting things done: time passes way too quickly. Why does everything take so long? Am I having mini-pass-outs? Am I a micro-time traveler jumping into the future seconds at a time?
The lesson I prepared was about the Bloody Mary game. The fourth grade boys have been talking about Bloody Mary when I take them for a bathroom break. I wanted to dispel any superstitions they had by telling them how this game developed and why people get fooled into thinking it’s real. I was also able to sneak in a reference to the regions of the United States, which so happens to be our topic in class. HERE is the PowerPoint in case you’re interested.
Well, THAT was entertaining!! Thank you for the rationale behind Bloody Mary. I am sending that information to 14-year-old me so she can stop being freaked out at Tricia’s house. It was worth you jumping through all that time.
Happy Birthday, Brent!
I was recently interviewed by some freshman education students from your sister’s class. They needed to know what it was like to be a teacher. One of the things I told them is that you never have enough time. And if you ever stop working from the time you get to school to the time you leave, you’ve forgotten something VERY important.
I didn’t think about the time traveling. That makes a lot of sense.
Haha! I laughed out loud at your comment. So true!
Whew…..for a minute there I thought you were preparing a lesson about a drinking game.
Great PowerPoint, for now I learned something.
Great interdisciplinary lesson there, sir: geography…sociology…creepology (made that last one up). I too did not now all that history of this game. Send me your bill for my part of the tuition for this.
Of course that should be Know, not Now. Sigh.