What a long day. Open house at the middle school - actually kind of fun. Had about 20 students and their parents visit my room. I was upbeat, shared (briefly) grade info with some parents, but mostly showed them my weebly page and told them about what we had been doing, how 7th grade is more hands-on, etc.
Then off to my youngest's open house at the elementary school. So I got to hear the opposite side, except en masse instead of parents trickling in over the course of 90 minutes. At least it was over in about 20 minutes. No real surprises, after having at least one of these for the last 6 years annually.
School is still upbeat. Teams are working really well together, and it is showing. Everybody is commenting (and being sincere about it) that this is the best start to a school year we have ever had. And that feeling is driving us to work harder to keep it that way. I stayed at school between dismissal and the beginning of the open house to get caught up on grading, and put batteries (4 AAA per) into 33 calculators. Nice suitcase full of TI-83s, plus I have a nifty transparent one to put on the overhead to show the kids how to use it. Maybe I will do some graphing with it, later. Also might be useful to teach the kids NOT to rely on a calculator, because if you screw up the order of operations, the calculator won't know what you meant to do.
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