Fair warning

 Yesterday there was really loud construction again.  I thought the demolition was done!  But, they had to knock out a bunch of brick to widen the entry to make it ADA compliant.

It was awful.

At lunch there was a lull in the sound.  I was walking down the hall and saw the main construction guy.  I asked him if they were done with the bulk of the noise.  He said, "Huh?" and moved his headphones so I asked him again.

He said, "It's still going to be loud."

He couldn't say he didn't warn me.

Miriam and I hid out in the extra 5th grade classroom, then the third grade practiced for the dance festival until recess.

After recess it was finally quiet.

But after school, Matt told us that they didn't make the opening wide enough.

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My students were doing an assessment, expanding simple sentences.

One of them just recopied the simple sentences.

Yes, because that was what I meant.

Several of them had a grouchy teacher (me) return their papers because they didn't capitalize the sentences.  How many times do I need to tell them?!?

(Very, very many.)

One student was turning in her paper and she is the sweetest hard-working dyslexic little girl who can't spell a bit.  She gave me a rueful look and said, "Just so you know, some of these words are not spelled correctly."

I appreciated the heads up, since I never would have realized on my own they were misspelled....

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I went on a walk with Kim and before I left I told Mark that when I got home to remind me to switch the laundry and then we were going to drop off some things for my ministering sisters and then we were going to MOD for dinner.

He said, "You're honestly asking me to remind you of something?"

Fair point, ADHD kid.

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In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, MOD had buy one get one free pizza.  I told Mark that the woman in front of us in line was a teacher.  "I guarantee it," I said.  "That lady over there is too.  And her."

I watched one of them get out her email to check on the teacher BOGO.  "See," I told Mark.

Another suspected teacher hugged another one and then introduced her to her son as, "My first practicum student."

Teachers.

Another one joined her husband and I thought she looked like a teacher.  She set her Alpine School District ID on the table.

Yep.

When I was ordering my pizza, the girl working there asked, "So is this for the Teacher Appreciation Week BOGO?"

I guess I obviously look like a teacher too?

Then I realized I was wearing my Bonneville Elementary shirt.