Springtime and the Livin' is Easy
i have little to write about today, but it has been a beautiful day! i've gotten to spend most of it outside as well with my students conducting a heart rate lab on the track. Kansas springs are not as early as South Carolina springs, and not nearly as reliable as Pennsylvania springs. i remember at Clemson, spring would arrive by March 1 every year, faithfully. In Pennsylvania, it doesn't arrive until May, but once it does, it is there to stay! In Kansas, winter and spring take turns for a month or so. At that's where we are now. Nonetheless, the signs are getting more visible:
Some developments in life that i have neglected mentioning here are:
-i have been relieved of physics duty!! After next year, i will be teaching Earth Science again, and i cannot wait.
-i have located KJAS (Kansas Junior Academy of Science) and have scheduled myself to be a judge in May so that i can get a sense of how things work around there. i will be teaching experimental design as an elective next year to kids who want to participate.
-i have discovered a love of team teaching. Two colleagues of mine are teaching an elective right now on flight, and it rockets my socks off! i love getting to talk to them every day while we work.
So yesterday, i'm out with my advanced class and they are taking great data for their labs. It was windy. And when i say it's windy, it's like a South Carolinian saying it's hot. Take my word for it. Kansas is serious about wind.
So it was windy, and i was complaining. One of the girls said, "Miss K, do you know why Kansas is so windy?" And i said, "Yes, but i get the feeling that this is a joke and the geographical position of the state is not the punchline." She ignores my snarky remark and gives me the punchline, "Because Nebraska blows and Oklahoma sucks."
Fabulous. Fabulous.
Some developments in life that i have neglected mentioning here are:
-i have been relieved of physics duty!! After next year, i will be teaching Earth Science again, and i cannot wait.
-i have located KJAS (Kansas Junior Academy of Science) and have scheduled myself to be a judge in May so that i can get a sense of how things work around there. i will be teaching experimental design as an elective next year to kids who want to participate.
-i have discovered a love of team teaching. Two colleagues of mine are teaching an elective right now on flight, and it rockets my socks off! i love getting to talk to them every day while we work.
So yesterday, i'm out with my advanced class and they are taking great data for their labs. It was windy. And when i say it's windy, it's like a South Carolinian saying it's hot. Take my word for it. Kansas is serious about wind.
So it was windy, and i was complaining. One of the girls said, "Miss K, do you know why Kansas is so windy?" And i said, "Yes, but i get the feeling that this is a joke and the geographical position of the state is not the punchline." She ignores my snarky remark and gives me the punchline, "Because Nebraska blows and Oklahoma sucks."
Fabulous. Fabulous.
posted by ellie at 15:16
1 Comments:
laughing out loud at the punchline:) that's a good one! as far as weather... spring has sprung here and we're in the full blown pollen eruption of 2008. I have allergies (and apparently the flu, but that's another story) and polly has allergies. but it is beautiful and that's what I need to remember. still laughing at that joke.
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