Katy's Happenings....

Well summer is here and almost gone. We have a couple of more weeks of break and then its back to the schedule of school for the kids and work for me. WOO HOO!! James starts his new job today at the College of Charleston downtown. He will be Operations Manager for the Data Center. GO HONEY!! Then he will be also working his part-time security job on Mon, Tues, and Fridays. This will make for a very long day for him. I started my online graduate course on Characteristics of Emotional Disorders and Behavioral Disorders. It is really interesting on how we have class. We have email we use from the University of Phoenix and we write in our responses to what the instructor wants us to write about. Then we respond to each others papers. We also have two projects we will be working on in groups. We also have alot of reading. Thankfully the book is online. I was going to go find it and get it from Barnes and Nobles and it was going to cost 87.00. CHOKE!! Thankfully also...this class is spons...

Well I did not realize it has been since Spring Break when I wrote last. Alot has happened since then. I survived my first year of public school teaching. WOO HOO!! I took the test to become highly qualified. I should find out the results this next week. I also had my inservice classes with the PACE program in June. It was 2 weeks of being brain fried but I passed. We learned alot of stuff that we can take back to our classroom this next year and hopefully use. The kids just got back from Happy Days Camp. They had a blast but Kristina came back sick. I am not use to her being sick. She is so moppy when she is sick and so sensitive.We have gained 2 new family members. There is Ginger, which i think I already wrote about and then we got Bailey the kitten that thinks he is a tiger. Hopefully i can post a picture of him soon. I have been working on our web page the past couple of days. Boy you can tell i have not messed with it in the past year. There are alot of broken links on there that...

AHHHH, Spring Break...What kids and teachers long for....second to Christmas break and Summer break of course. It has been nice already to not have to go anywhere unless i really have to. Saturday I had my seminar for the PACE program. It lasted from 8 until about 3. We had fun actually with doing skits having to do with the history of education in S.C. The next time we get together as a PACE group it will be during the June Inservice. This 9 weeks we are learning about Earth Materials (translation rocks and minerals) in Science. We have one more 9 weeks and school will be out for the summer. WOO HOO!! I recently received my certificate for my first year completion of teaching. I had to go to Induction meetings once a month during this year. Charleston County had a special meeting for us where we met the new Rookies of the year as teachers and meet the ones from last year. They also had a reception for us afterwards. I will not miss having to go to the meetings. During the ...

This is my first Saturday where I have not had to go to Columbia for teacher training. PTL!! Darn I miss my seat in the second row next to my buddy Sal. NOT!! It is nice to stay home for a bit and just breathe a sigh of relief. I finished my training and PASSED! WOO HOO!! I now go to the second half which will not seem so bad but is just as important. It just takes longer to do the project. I am now back on track with the teachers in training that had it during the summer. We will all meet on Feb.25 in Summerville for a day filled with information. That is when we have homework due. School is going well with the kids. We hit the 100 day mark last Monday. WOO HOO!! I will be glad when I have had a year of teaching under my belt. I will be glad to not have to be under the microscope like i have been this year. I had my observation from my principal on Thursday. I will not find out how i actually did until Feb. 28th when i go for a meeting with her to find out. UGHHHH!! The torcher we go ...