Monday Funday

Today we had a fire drill. It was unannounced, and thus unprepared for. The kids did great, but I lost a few minutes of class time that I really could have used.

The kids are working on their video projects, but they are just in the preliminary stages, as no actually filming has yet accomplished.

Today, I found out that one of my Pre-AP groups that wanted to do a project about teen suicide and how it affects others (which could have been a very profound project) had a group member in it that had been affected personally by a relative's suicide. That group member originally did not like the project idea, but did not express his reasons why, and the rest of the group convinced him to do it. They were very polite in letting me know what happened today, (as the group found out today as well), and needless to say they have modified their movie goals/outline. At least they handled it like competent, intelligent adults.

The War on Ants
My teacher desk has ants - one or two at a time, but never that many during a day. The situation has gotten increasingly worse. I've killed them, used cleaning sprays, cleaned the desk, and even tried putting out piles of cayenne pepper as it's supposed to keep the ants away. (They stayed away from the piles, but congregated on everything else). I had to put in a work order to get the area sprayed professionally. My administrator's first RE: to the message while CC:ing others - "My office also has ant problems. Any room in the budget for an anteater?"

Yeah, he's that awesome. :) I feel like I should explain that he was indeed joking, and the work order was also submitted at the same time as the joke. Efficiency and a good attitude. It was the perfect way to end the week.