Your Days in Sentences

Here’s the thirtieth installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each week I’ll post them along with links to the authors’ blogs.

Day in a Sentence can’t exist without you and your reflection on teaching. Please consider submitting your day in one sentence, and see what others have to say. Here’s what this week’s teachers said:

First up is graycie, who writes:

New Superintendent, new Principal, new policies, new procedures for EVERYTHING, new curriculum for freshmen, tighten up new curriculum for seniors, new student teacher, new home computer to arrive next week (I hope — the old one died the day before school began).

Because I posted early last week, this entry from graycie got left in the dust. But with all those changes in her environment, we can only expect she’s used to the dust flying around. Graycie began the year with some advice to a newbie teacher, found out (to her glee) that her new student teacher is awesome, and experienced one of those times you’re happy to be eating your own foot.

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New entrant Jeff Wasserman is second in line, and unbuttons his collar as he says:

I had a lot of trouble with my bowtie this morning, so I abandoned it.

Good call, man. I don’t know if I could ever pull off a bowtie. Actually, I should say: “I could only enjoy pulling off a bowtie.” Doesn’t seem like my style.

But then again, after reading through a few pages and a bunch of posts from Jeff’s blog titled: When the Hurly-Burly’s Done, I notice quite a bit that feels so much like home. Namely:

• a self-written play about English class and writing,
• A link to one of Dana Huff’s posts, along with his own thoughts,
• Wordsworth done by a Rapping Squirrel (for real, yo)
• and you should really take the time to wade through his posts.

One side note, Jeff’s got a few links that really interest me — the link to the official Sigur Ros website, as well as links to Musical interpretations of poems from the “Spoon River Anthology” (which is of recent interest to me, for personal reasons).

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Bonnie reminds us about the Internet as a teaching/contact tool:

We are in September and early fall and I am ready to pack up and travel to Israel for a few weeks but I will be only a click away, in fact, it gives me a great opportunity to share Israel with my email list, anyone want to join on?

And you’d best send her your information if you’d like to stay in contact — she’s already on her way.

One cool thing about Bonnie’s blog: she writes movie reviews.

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Another new entrant, musicwork, writes:

My day started with a frustrating rehearsal of tired, distracted children armed with lots of ear-piercing glockenspiels, but ended in triumphant performance of their own composition of musical questions and answers – an end-of-term triumph of persistence, patience, and performance spirit on all our parts!

This is definitely a new one around these parts: a music teacher! And not just a music teacher, but a masters-level student conducting a thesis on music as a bridge to literacy for refugee students with little to no school skills. Seriously. Check out musicwork’s about page for more information.

Read about that End-of-Term Concert, and then see what ele is happening in musicworld’s word: Music Work.

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Nancy says:

Three weeks to go ’till the big day; that’s all I have to say.

Funny how such a short statement shows off how much that personal change means, and yet how little effect it has on our preparations for school. Nancy’s still plugging away on her blog with posts about the ramp up to the new year, and with another spectacular handout — this time for how to write a narrative essay.

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And rounding things up, interestingly enough, is graycie again. She writes:

I left school at 3:45 yesterday; any time before 5:30 would have been a record since school started this year; one day I was there from 7:15 in the morning until 8:30 that night.

Good thing that computer finally showed up. Now she has something to do with all that free time. :)

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Actually, there’s one more: and I won’t link to the webpage — it’s a spam blog — and the author broke the rules by leaving more than one sentence, all of which were about viagra. But hidden in the middle was this gem for your Sunday morning:

OKAY, OKAY, I’LL BUY THE VIAGRA! Sweet Lord. … Clearly, the online Viagra people know something about my penis that I don’t.

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So there we go! Another Your Day in a Sentence down and yet another week coming up. Expect another call for entries in a few days.

Thanks again to everyone who participated — you get me out reading your blogs when I otherwise don’t have the time, or when I forget.