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Welcome to Happy Green Tea!
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This site began as a grad school project for an Ed. Tech. class in 2005 and has since become a place for me to experiment and play with a web site. It's not much, but it's fun!
Paula Sawyer. June 17, 2009
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I'm DONE!
I'm done I'm done I'm done!!! Hurray!! I made it! Woohoo! Whew! It's over, my first year is over and we all survived and prospered and made it out alive!! The details are:
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Russian Jack Elementary (wonderful school with a wonderful principal! Yes, it sounds like a drink as in "I'll have a Russian Jack")
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2nd Grade
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23 kids, 15 boys and 8 girls (ooooh, that was tough)
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8 bilingual
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8 problem kids (that the number is the same is coincidental)
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1 little narcissist (a total pill. I high-five'd myself when he walked out of the room on that last day. Seriously.)
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2 SPED (sweet sweet sweet boys. 1 with FAS and one with minor learning difficulties)
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14 non-proficient readers (October DRA's)
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13 non-proficient readers (April DRA's. Score one for the Reading Intervention teams! One new proficient was bilingual!)
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3 IGNITE students (the narcissist should have been one of them. He is diabolically clever)
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5 boys developed a porn ring (yes, all from my class)
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5 boys created a "gang" and picked on other 2nd graders at recess and lunch (same boys)
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5 boys caught using baaaaaad words on the playground and were sent to the principal (again, same boys.)
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0 blond students (the one blond girl in the photo moved in October)
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2 blue-eyed students (I lined them up by eye color once, calling brown-eyed kids first. Oops. All lined up but two!)
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22 kids eligible for free breakfast/lunch (it's a Title I school)
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23 pretty great kids who kept me going all day long for 178 days
Jackeline is in the middle on the top; Liza is at the far right in the red sweater; Vine is on the middle slide in the red shirt; and Winter is up at the top making the same gesture.
Jackeline, Liza, Winter and Vine, May 2009. Gone are the baby faces. It's most obvious on Liza. In February, they all started having actual growing pains, complaining that their joints hurt! Who knew.
Beginning of the year . . .