Pi Day!

Today is Pi day. Pi is a math term that I definitely don't teach in 4th grade. The number is 3.1415926535 and keeps going and going and going. I used to be able to name a lot of numbers for pi because in high school in one of my math classes, the teacher had a lot of numbers listed for pi on the wall. Instead of paying attention to her teach, I would try to memorize pi. Today is the ultimate pi day since the first 5 digits are 3.1415 and today is 3/14/15. That won't happen again for another 100 years. All this talk about pi makes me want to eat pie! Unfortunately I don't have any here right now.

One Student at a Time

Almost any teacher will tell you they teach for one reason: to change children's lives. Of course the same goes for me. This past Monday, I gave the students an index card with some motivational words on them. I personalized each one to show them how much I care about them. Yesterday, one of my students came in and handed me a little slip saying I'm a great teacher. It was awesome. Then I saw her handing out slips to every student! I wanted to do cartwheels I was so excited! I guarantee she would not have done that if I didn't do it a few days earlier. It's moments like that that remind me why I'm a teacher. One down, many students to go!

Elton John

Before my two friends and I went to the concert, we went out to dinner. That took forever. For some reason, the service was slow. Oh well. When we got close to the arena, traffic was heavy as expected. Since I am weird, I would hold my tickets up to the window and try to get the car next to mine's attention to see if they were going to the show. I think I got three cars attention and some took out their tickets to show they were going too. It was a fun way to try to pass time. The concert was great! One problem was that I was yawning the entire time, not because it was boring, but because I was exhausted! He played for about 2 and a half hours. I tried to tape his last song, "Crocodile Rock" because that's the song I sang on the cruise ship in August 2013. Unfortunately, moments after I started recording, my phone said I didn't have enough storage to video tape anything else. It's funny because I used to hate "Crocodile Rock" before I sang it on the cruise. Now I love it. That's the song that I stood up at during the concert and jammed out to the most. After the concert, it took forever to get out of the arena. I didn't get home until about midnight. I felt like a zombie in the morning. Somehow, I ended up feeling like I have more energy at the end of the day even though I'm drained. I don't understand it. I'm hoping to go to another concert in April, but haven't bought tickets yet. We will see!

Concert

I'm off to my first concert since Paul McCartney in Greensboro on October 30. I've seen this guy in concert twice with Billy Joel. Tonight, Elton John is performing alone right in my home town! I don't have to travel an hour and a half to Raleigh to see him. The two teachers I'm going with are so worried about how tired they will be tomorrow. I've gone to sporting events or concerts in Raleigh numerous times and gotten home well past 11. This time, the concert's about 20 minutes from me. I should be home by 11-11:30. Even though I'm typically in bed by 9:30, it'll be fine. I can't wait to see Elton John in a few hours!

Focus T25

The teacher I work with everyday wanted us to do a workout after school. She wants us to do it like 3 times a week. We've been saying we would do it for a week or two now. We finally did it after tutoring today. Once the kids were gone, we changed into our workout clothes, popped the DVD into the computer, and did the workout. The program is called Focus T25. There are 11 different workouts. There are a few workouts under the Alpha program, which are lighter/easier workouts. Then there are a few under Beta, which are more challenging. I didn't know this until I just looked it up. We chose one out of the Beta program...ouch! Each workout is 25 minutes long. This video had us jogging in place, going to the ground, doing lunges, nonstop for 25 minutes. My legs are on fire right now! I was dripping bullets by the time it was done. I sprayed Lysol in my room before I left so it doesn't stink when I go in tomorrow. It was an intense workout. We aren't available to do it tomorrow and I can't do it Thursday. I think we are going to try to do this on Monday's, Wednesday's, and Friday's for now on. We will see!

Part of Whole

I made yet another math song for my kids. I changed the lyrics to Sam Smith's "Stay With Me". As usual, my kids laughed at me when I sang it to them. I also know that they weren't paying attention to the meaning of my lyrics. It's hard to do that when you're ignoring the song and talking to your friend while your teacher is singing... I digress. I had a friend suggest that I make a CD of my songs and sell it. I only have 3 songs so far. I'd have to make several more songs before I would sell a CD of them. I highly doubt I'll do that but ya never know!

Spring Ahead

In my 27 and a half years of living, I have never been awake when the clocks jump ahead an hour or lose an hour. I was very close last night. Normally bars are open until 2AM around here. Last night, they were open until 1 because of the clocks going ahead an hour. That makes no sense to me because if it closed at 2 as usual, then the clock would change to 3. Oh well, whatever. We stayed until 1. I got home at about 1:30 and then went right to bed. I was so close to watching the clock turn to an hour, but didn't make it. Maybe I will in the fall!