This is my 200th post! Who knew I could find enough to write about to fill up 200 posts! But somehow I manage just enough adventure in my life to warrant some written entertainment for the masses. So thank you for reading and giving me a reason to try new things! The last week has moved in what felt like slow motion. Wait a minute, it literally did move in slow motion. I am still healing my poor dislocated knee but am feeling better every day! Mobility is still an issue as I can't bend my knee to a certain degree without pain but even that is getting better. I'm still incredibly bruised and swollen but otherwise on the mend! My goal this week is to find some stretches to help with flexibility so that I can put my winter boots on! (EDIT: Boots can now be placed on feet!!) For now I have been rocking the indoor-outdoor Avon slippers. Monika has been named Mom because she has helped me put my socks on two mornings in a row. To take them off I have been using a pole with a hook attached. I'd say I would really like a man to help me at this point but really, who needs a man when you have friends like mine and a pole with a hook??
I decided to take Monday off after a doctor at the clinic advised I try and stay off my leg for at least another day to help reduce swelling. I happily returned to work on Tuesday to a mass of lovely and touching get well cards from my students and lots of hugs. I really missed them but knew they were in good hands with my student teacher Christine and capable sub Jill. Bobo of course kept me good company and we caught up on our stories and rested.
Friday was a glorious PED day which consisted of a great presentation by a fellow teacher on differentiation in the classroom and then our own presentations on some great goals we set and met in our classrooms. It was really rewarding to see our plans to meet these goals put into action and brag about the amazing growth our students have shown. We learned a lot from each other as teachers shared strategies and ideas (not jut within elementary but across secondary too!). It was a great PED day and it brought the school as a community closer together I felt.
The weekend was pretty awesome except I got food poisoning or a tummy bug. So I won't go into great detail about that. Saturday I spent the whole day inside not only because of the close proximity to the toilet but also because there was a legit blizzard! Winds of around 100km/hr, NEGATIVE 5683 visibility and fah-reezing. I watched sadly from the window as my driveway slowly disappeared beneath beautiful but deadly drifts. I spent my day puttering around the house, cleaning, cooking, doing chores, singing to Bobo and writing! YES folks I am proud to say that I have been asked to write two quarterly columns for the Wemindji newsletter! I was SO flattered to be asked!! I wrote one for current school events, like a newsletter and one just about meeeee!! My favorite topic!! I chose to write about why I love Wemindji. When it's published I'll post it on here.
Sunday was of course the Oscars, my other favorite topic. I LOVE the red carpet fashions and had a lovely evening watching the event surrounded by tasty snacks and good conversation. The Oscars always go late but luckily today was another wonderful PED day so we didn't have to go in as early as usual and we were sans children! We got some very necessary and useful planning done in our Cycles (grade groups, I'm Cycle 1 Year 2 aka Grade 2) and the Parent Committee planned an aboslutely fabulous afternoon at the Culture Camp for us!!!!!! They had traditional food cooking (moose and goose), tea and bannock donuts, snowshoe races, little mini socks for us as tokens of appreciation and beautiful artifacts around a large structure. It was a cold and windy but beautiful day and I spent most of it darting in and out of the cabin for photo ops and trying to defrost. I smell of cooking meat and woodfire and it is delightful. We ventured onto the ice to take some pictures and then some dude put his foot right through a giant crack in the ice which I then took as my cue to make like an bee and GET OFF THE ICE. I know how this movie ends.
Anyways, its been a great couple of days and this week is gearing up to be a busy one. With two days of in-school training while Christine mans the helm back in the classroom, Skip-a-thon, a visitor with some cool Cree artifacts in our classrooms, Science fair and lots of math on the schedule, it is going to be hectic but fun! I will sleep well each night no doubt!! Enjoy pictures from culture camp!!
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
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| Photo cred: David Blackburn-Kearns aka The Finest Photographer of His Generation |
