Argh.

Classroom management is getting more and more difficult. The afternoons are just crazy. I've gotten some good advice from O, though (give them things to do IMMEDIATELY, minimize the written words) so we'll see if that helps.

had a fistfight after school today. as we were trying to get down the stairs. I turned around to get the girls in line and two of my boys were just ON each other. Punching, yelling, wrestling... it was all I could do to separate them. So now two of my seven-year-old children have a 90-minute detention tomorrow. Sigh.

I wish my aide were full-time. She leaves at noon every day to face the math block alone. It's just no fun. I'd love to do math groups, if only I had enough supervision... Blah. I'll see if I can work it out anyway.

I think I must be too tired to write -- I don't feel like I'm saying anything. (the reading teacher just yelled my name in the PD and scared me to death, but she was just using me as an example. Heh.) Hopefully I'll write something material soon.