We made it...

...and it wasn't that bad. Except for fifth period. I have completely lost control of that class, I can't deny it any longer. I'm not sure how to get it back. Any suggestions would be nice, allthough I seem to have tried every progressive non-authoritative method I can think of. Now, how do I do the conservative authoritative thing? It's totally against my nature, but all the "nice" methods have thus far been unsuccesful for me. How do I do the mean "don't smile until Christmas" thing?

Also, my kids finally caught on that they've already done everything we're doing in my class! It took them 6 1/2 weeks, but we finally got to a part of the curriculum that most of them kinda remember. Of course, they didn't seem to remember the content during the informal "tell me everything you know about electricity" discussion we had, but the lab, they remember. In spite of a chorus of "Miss, we did this last year!" (or the years before that in some cases) they seemed to have a pretty good time playing with the circuits anyway. The teacher in me is tempted to add buzzers and dimmers to the mix tomorrow, but the rational human inside of me is saying "light bulbs and switches are plenty, they don't need buzzers, are you crazy???" I'll decide in the morning based on how up to it I feel. Anyway, I need to quit procrastinating, and get finished so I can get out of here and go HOME, that place I sleep at, and used to spend time at!

Love to all!