The youngest signed up for the school's 5k race (she intended to walk it, maybe a little running, with a friend), and since I had done it for the past 2 years, I pre-paid, intending to walk with the two girls. Well, they kind of brushed me off, and the competitive spirit kicked in, and I ran/walked it. Made the first mile without stopping to walk...finished it in a relatively respectable time. The amazing thing is - I don't feel crippled. I must be in some sort of shape to manage that. Nice day for it, too...mid 80s, sunny, good breeze.
The weather really brought the rose tree to life. It started 7 years ago as a Mother's Day gift (note to self, 2 weeks to that), and it hasn't been severely pruned back. It has a tendency to send off long stems with multiple heads. Right now the main trunk is about 5 inches in diameter, and the tallest blooms are about 8 feet high. There are about 100 roses in bloom right now. Nice fragrance.
Meanwhile I am wracking my brain for four or five self contained lessons to get me through this week. The kids are superiorly unmotivated, but leaning towards cartesian graphing (sort of connect the dots, but with (x,y)), tessellation (tiling, if I can get the various graph papers to print out), restaurant ordering (adding/multiplying decimals, then calculating percents for tax and tip).
Each day will have to have some sort of hand-in so I can give them a grade. Not something that can translate to a quiz, or at least not one that I can grade easily or quickly, and that is the name of the game right now.
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