Cha-cha now y'all

Today has been great! I'm kinda bored at school right now, but am too lazy to go outside. The kids are having a sports exchange day with the kids from another Intermediate school, so pretty much all day there have been all kinds of sports going on that the kids have been a part of. Right now is the rugby game, so my whole class is down there with the art teacher and then heading to art in a little while. I figured I'd use this time for planning, but Pip has disappeared somewhere and I kind of need her to help me! The kids are going to be on Tech next week, which means less planning for me! haha.

So that awesome lesson that I had planned for my kids unfortunately crashed and burned... partly because of the fire drill that happened and took away a good 10 minutes, but partly because the kids didn't know how to convert fractions to decimals. Not even 1/2. Yikes. So, tomorrow we're going to have to have a conference about all of that. Oh, brother.

My knees are still killing me. I'm starting to get really nervous. We'll see how my run goes tomorrow morning. My time is up now for my membership at City Fitness, so it's going to have to be a full out run outside in the morning since I'm leaving right after school to go to Palmerston North with Pip. I'm really looking forward to it! I have no idea what she has planned, but she told me to bring hiking shoes. I hope my knees can deal with that!

I'm trying to get a lot of my planning done before we leave for the weekend so that next week will go smoother, but I unfortunately just don't know where the kids are going. It's hard because it's the end of the term, so we have so much we want to get done.

So anyway, like I said our school had a guest intermediate school for a day of sports games. We dominated pretty much. It was nice because whenever the kids got done with their other activities, they got to go and watch the games. It was a good incentive for them to get things done. So after math, it was time for fitness, but Pip said I could let kids that want to go go, so there were only about 5 kids left afterwards. We did fitness stations for a while and then I put on jock jams for them to do it all, haha. All of a sudden I heard Cha Cha Slide and got into the groove and made all of the kids cha cha with me. It was hilarious! Then we did the Chicken Dance and Tequila (is that school appropriate?? haha). I had such a good time and started sweating like I normally do. One of the kids goes, "Oh my gosh.... you really ARE sweating!!" Whatdja think, kid?! Of COURSE I am!

After I while I went down to watch the rugby and realized that half the team is made up of boys from my room. WHOOHOO! We kicked butt. I chatted with some of the girls in my class while we were watching and they said, "Ms. Cram, when do you become a real teacher?" And I said, "Well, next Friday, at the end of the day, I'll be done with everything!" And one of the girls goes, "Let's have a shared lunch (potluck) for her to celebrate her being a real teacher!" How sweet! I love those kids.

Well, I have lots of planning to do for next week, so I'm going to get down to it. Night!