Nothing Extraordinary, in my Opinion

The title of this post is brought to you by one of my students. We finished our first ferm a couple of week ago. Since I just finalized my grades for the term, I thought it might be nice to ask the students to grade me as a teacher and give me the letter grade they thought I had earned, along with what they liked about the class and a suggestion for improvement.. I like doing this because it allows the students to anonymously give me feedback. It's very useful to determine what is and is not working in my classroom. So, I was reading through the grades (mostly A's -- whew!) and the student's rationales for the grades. One student, however, gave me a solid B and their reasoning was that I was a good teacher, but nothing extraordinary in their opinion! I shared this with a few colleagues and it has provided much entertainment over the last week. We are now keeping tallies to determine if any of us really are extraordinary. So far, I think, we're all just "good".

The description does kind-of fit our lives right now though. We are happy and loving life, but nothing extraordinary has happened recently. I'm still teaching, and Tim is still looking for a job.

So, it's not like I have a lot to report about or share with you. But since I'm already writing....we are enjoying our apartment and it finally feels like home. We both have responsibilities at our church -- Tim is working with the 14-16 year-old boys to help them fulfil the requirements for receiving their Boy Scout Eagle Award. I am the music leader in Nursery (which is for kids 1 1/2 to 3). This has definitely been a learning experience for me. While I love music and have had many responsibilities as church dealing with music, I've never taught little kids. There's a reason I'm a high school teacher -- I don't know what to do with 2 year-olds! But I'm learning and having a lot of fun singing with the children every week. They are so genuine and have taught me a lot about life.

Also, Tim and I are chaperoning my school's Halloween Dance on Friday night. It's always fun for me to see my students outside of a school setting, so I'm sure it will be fun....though I wish it didn't go so late (with clean-up, we probably won't leave until midnight). I've lost my night-owl instincts....I guess that happens when you have to be up at 6 every morning!

I can't think of anything else worth mentioning. I'll try to be better about posting regularly. It hard for me, though, because I don't feel like my boring life is really worth writing about. I guess it's my dislike of journals coming through. However, I will try to be better. I hope that you all have a Happy Halloween!