Spring School Ends, Bring on the Puddings
When Sarah and I went to the movies this week we were struck by how many cars were in the parking lot. “Ahhh it’s Spring Break.” I said to her. Kids are out in full force this week. Although I was the teacher of some of them, I wasn’t. I chose to teach “Spring School” for a week, which always has its agonies with ecstasies. I get paid 27 dollars an hour to teach hand-picked students whatever I and the Principal decide is worth the time. My class did test prep in English Language Arts and also a bit of mathematics. Traditionally the kids at my school do better on the Standardized math test than they do on the Language arts, so my minutes followed suit. I saw great growth even in just the four days. I had 13 students who came every day (I didn’t have even one absence which is a record for me!). It was very helpful I thought and I know the test scores will show the results of this agony, its not easy getting up for this when you know you could be on break.
Now for the ecstasy:
Since tomorrow is Good Friday and there are no classes then, Spring School has ended for the week! I am thrilled for the chance to play with my kids on the carpet and have a nice family Easter. We were supposed to drive down to my folks’ house but I am thinking that is going to be a little tough for us. Both the girls (9 mo. and 3 yrs) are coughing with runny noses and quite frankly: my wife and I are spent! Hopefully they will understand. We are looking forward then to a nice Easter at home, maybe an egg hunt in the backyard … sky’s the limit! I remember when I was a kid my parents used to put the Snack Pack puddings that came in little aluminum cans in my easter basket. Vanilla, chocolate, tapioca, butterscotch … those things were so good, and for breakfast nonetheless LOL.
What kind of work are you done with? Did you get pudding as a kid like I did?
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Hope the girls feel better soon.
I remember the pudding in a can, never got it for Easter though, my parents were never big on the holidays.
Have a great weekend!
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Thanks Penelope, I’m looking forward to reading more of your blog over the weekend! Catch Ya Later.
Wow, that’s pretty cool that those kids were so committed to their extra classes! That says a lot about their characters. I’m going to post about my favorite easter experience instead of doing a huge comment here (:
Awesome, I will head over and check it out for sure.
Wow, sounds like we have a lot in common… We’re both authors and Blogcritics writers who write about our kids (close in age), and I also lived in the CA High Desert for many years. Then of course, there is the name, which I posted about on my blog at damiandaily.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/damian/.
Best of luck in the blogosphere!
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My parents were of the Peeps and jelly bean school of Easter baskets. I do love Snack Pack chocolate pudding for snack!
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Oh yeah, in answer to the question, I got a chocolate bunny, Reese’s peanut butter cups, jelly beans, and lip balm in my Easter basket as a kid. Flavored lip balm and toothbrushes seemed to mysteriously show up in my Christmas stockings too. Santa and the Easter Bunny were sort of weird that way at our house. The Tooth Fairy left quarters though, as a good Tooth Fairy should.
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@beeker: Woo Hoo! A fellow snack pack lover!
@Lisa: Hey cool! I commented on that post on your site, also submitted it to all the social bookmarks. Gotta do my part to erase the stigma ;) Nice to see you dropped by. I went ahead and put you on my reader. Thanks for the comments.