Projects

     I have spent a lot of time recently conjugating Spanish verbs. I have been trying to learn Spanish for a couple of years and it is an ongoing work in progress. When you first start, everything is in present tense, so I am a lot better with present tense than past or future. Or any of the variations of past and future. I am trying to get the rules for regular verb conjugation to stick in my head, so I work at it. A lot. I am finally starting to remember. Some of the time. I also have charts of irregular verbs, which are a whole different issue when learning. But I am determined. 

      Today is Friday, so the end of the third week of the school year for me. It is also the first full 5 day week. It has been pretty great. This school year is, so far, very much beyond my expectations. The bar was extremely low after last year, but I am hopeful that this year will continue to be amazing. I have a student who is coming to me, starting late, that is going to need a lot of special skills to work with. Luckily (for the school) I have all those special skills because I have been saying for years, just give me the hardest kids to work with (and leave me alone to do it). I want to make all the invisible kids visible. Everyone deserves that. Everyone is teachable. But until my new kid starts I am working on projects. Some things are prep for my kiddo and some are for the classroom in general. As long and I am busy and feel useful I am happy. And I have been VERY busy. 

     One of the specials my kids have is art and one of the kids in the class (not one of mine) made this for me. She also made larger versions. It is like the old fortune tellers we would make when I was in elementary and middle school. But she made them compliment tellers. Once you went through the steps you would read a compliment (instead of a fortune). It was a cool idea. And the tiny one is just adorable and now is hanging out on my computer so I can enjoy it all the time. 

      The 555 day streak on Duolingo was really gratifying. I am a ways beyond it at this point, but I have been a little bit busy so I haven't had time to post. While Duolingo is never going to make me fluent, it is a fun way to practice. So I keep going. 

      I was thinking of going to a renaissance faire again this weekend but I need to go and get my hair done tomorrow. And right now I am way too tired to think about going to do anything else anyway. Maybe I will feel differently on Sunday.