You Know

(I realize this is not an actual blog post, and that I haven't really made a blog post for over a month. Hopefully I'll have time shortly, now that my grades are in.)

You know you are a primary teacher when you find yourself thinking, on a more-than-weekly basis, "What is this in my pocket, and how the *&@#^$A* did it get there?"

Yesterday's catch: 3 bits of crayon, 1/3 of an eraser, a late slip, someone's broken cell phone, and two pens.

the problem with analogies

This is something I've been mulling over for a while, but just now found the words for.

Back in October, when I was hired, the representatives from my school said that the teachers were "like family."
I didn't realize at the time that rather than speaking of "family" in a Platonic sense, they were actually talking about my family. Specifically my second and fifth aunts.

Little details...