Teachers?

garysgirl719

I am really lucky with he district I work for now. They are huge fans of healthy living. We are involved in a 100 day challenge right now and our principal supports being healthy. She has walked in to do an observation, and when she finished, taught the next five minutes so i could run to the bathroom.

JL3mom

I work in an elementary school with a VERY involved PTA and their is ALWAYS food and chocolate in the teachers lounge! I think I use to make excuses to go in there just to get chocolate!!! I decided that enough was enough and I haven't had any chocolate in TWO weeks! Yay me! (with me, the chocolate has to be all or nothing!!) Maybe one day I will be able to enjoy a piece!

IreneAdler

Good Job, jaileeh!

Giving up the chocolate is hard. I keep my chocolate in the freezer, where I'm most likely to forget about it.

At the last staff meeting, when pretzels were available for snacks, I actually read the calorie information on the bag and carefully counted out 18 pretzels for myself. The person in line behind me gave me the strangest look.

csquaredsmom

I too am lucky with my current boss. He's amazing and if he ever goes anywhere else, I think I will want to follow. He is SOOOO supportive of the staff eating healthy and exercising! We all share tips and recipes and cheer each other on. Of course, it is a smaller school but it's still awesome!
Sorry about having to do those sub plans. Sub plans are the worst. Easier to just be there!

garysgirl719

Yes, sub plans are a pain. I do love the feeling though I get walking in the next day. The kids act like they havent seen me in months. Tomorrow will be interesting. We are having a "reward" pizza celebration with some of our kiddoes for their holiday reading logs. My partner and I are hoping to encourage the healthy eating with our kids. We are having one thin crust pizza, salads, and watermelon for dessert.

crutherford1205

I teach middle school reading. I always have a hard time eating during lunch, because I am doing way to many other things. I usually bring Zone protein bars, which I find fill me up and I can eat hem quickly.

alaskagrown

Awww. Okay, the field trip was SO worth it. We went to the Asian Art Museum and the kids were so prepared. I was incredibly proud of them. When the docents would ask questions they were ON IT. "Now, this is a statue of Rama and--" "He's an avatar of Vishnu!" my kid would blurt out. "Parvati and Shiva were partners! They had Ganesha, the elephant god of new beginnings!" They were so polite and interested and knowledgeable. The docents were totally impressed and thanked us for coming. So... I guess the sub plan was worth it, even though two of my colleagues got to go home at 12:30 and my other colleague and weren't ready to really go home til 4.

Unfortunately, I feel like I'm coming down with something and have zero motivation to work out or anything.

alaskagrown

Happy Friday, everyone!

christina31

I just found this thread, and I'm SO glad I did! I'm not a teacher yet, but I'm currently working as a sign language interpreter in a day treatment program in my county. I've been in education for 5 years, and this is probably the best placement so far. I'm slowly working my way through school to become a special ed teacher, but with two kids at home, there's only so many hours in the day. I'm fortunate that the classroom is self-contained with a teacher and 2 assistants, so I am usually able to run to the bathroom whenever I need to, as long as there isn't a crisis. Our students eat in the classroom, so we have made it a learning opportunity and eat together at a table everyday. My biggest problem is that any time I leave the room, so does my student's voice. I find myself timing bathroom breaks with the students, but they don't drink water all day! I'm always looking for friends on here with similar stories, so please feel free to friend me!

lisateachawa

I teach special kids too but I teach in high school. I have 9th through 12th self contained students. I love my job, but the bathroom thing is very frustrating at times. When I have Lots of water I have to go every 20 min. Our classes are 90 minutes in length - so this becomes a MAJOR problem. Thank goodness for friends and an aide who can cover for a 5 min. bathroom run. :laugh:

IreneAdler

Happy Saturday, teachers.

I'm going to work very hard this weekend at NOT checking my work email for messages from parents. I'm not at work!

alaskagrown

Yay, happy Saturday! I'm missing Chinese school because I'm sick.

Does anyone bring salads to work? My salads are HUGE and I never know what to put them in.

atomiclauren

^Hope you get to feeling better!

I take salads about 3-4 days out of the week but they're really simple. I *love* iceberg lettuce so I'm missing out on the better and darker kinds, and I add whatever I can find in the refrigerator - usually a combination of mushrooms, tomatoes, bell peppers, and/or avocados. I also use balsamic vinegar instead of other types of dressings.

IreneAdler

I hate to grade papers. Why didn't I become a plumber instead? Better money and job satisfaction, I'm sure. *grading 8th grade tests on thermodynamics--takes at least two hours. ARRRGGGHHHH!

HW2Hottie

I hate to jump in here, but I just wanted to say God Bless you all. I LOVE my kids teachers and I just don't think you guys hear it enough. Thank you for all that you do for these kids!!

Terriberry

I teach preschool and my day can get very stressful. i work with infants and let me tell you, all that crying can really make a girl crave some chocolate!

anna_b1

Hi there! Good to find this group.

I'm a high school Special Ed teacher and find my day flies by. I have to make a concerted effort to eat lunch or I don't get a break at all. My colleague and I have 65 kids assigned to us and they keep us busy.

I'm going to try to track this thread. Like-minded people need to convene every now and again.

alaskagrown

ArmyWife, what a nice thing to say! I ALWAYS feel like I can't do enough for the kids and it's nice when parents are appreciative. That means a lot.

LJ0125

So, I attempted skiing for the first time this weekend. You guys will NOT be seeing me in the Olympics for skiing anytime soon. I feel like someone beat me up.

Monday Smonday...O how I dislike Monday. We are expecting a snow/ice storm this week. We've had snow once a week for 3 weeks now. When I was a kid (boy do I sound old now) we never got snow.

Wishing you all a great week.
Happy February!

alaskagrown

I teach preschool and my day can get very stressful. i work with infants and let me tell you, all that crying can really make a girl crave some chocolate!

Ooh, my hat's off to you. I really have no idea what to do with little kids.

I'm going to try to track this thread. Like-minded people need to convene every now and again.

Cool, I agree! Glad so many teachers found it!

frida001

Thank you Armywife!!!

candycana

Okay, remember I teach at a middle school, 6th - 8th. Guess what they told us today? We're a small county, only one middle school and our bright personnel at the district office have found this "wonderful" all-day workshop for reading that they want all the language arts, science, social studies, and reading teachers to take. It's required. All of them. On the SAME day! There are six math teachers, and about 8 related arts teachers that will not be included in the workshop. We're to hold down the fort. I was so floored I didn't even hear if the administrators will be at school or also attending this workshop. The district office personnel (well, except for the ones that SHOULD be in the classroom, the superintendent, asst. super, and various other dist. dept. heads) will be subbing along with any other subs that can be hired for the day. Oh my gosh. It's going to be CRAZY that day! I feel a sickness coming on. LOL. Except there won't be any subs left for me. Sigh.

On the positive side, all those poor district personnel will find out what it's like to be in a classroom.

alaskagrown

Yay, payday!

bourgeoisk

Hi all. Another teacher here. I am an 8th grade Special Ed teacher. This is my 10th year to teach.I do inclusion, teach study skills, run a learning lab, and track around 25 kiddos. Whew. Makes me tired just reading it.

Just wanted to pop in and say hello. Looks like everyone's doing well.

berries71

i am a prek teacher and find it difficult with all the snacks around as well. We provide the snack at the school , and although it is healthy and I usually bring my own vitamuffin, i always end up picking on the school snack. Usually, it contains the salt that i want/need at that moment. Anyway......i love teaching as well and would love to continue hearing from everyone!

alaskagrown

I was doing better with food in the room. I've kept organic peanut butter in my desk for the last couple of weeks and then I find something to eat it with and that = lunch. Celery, banana or apple.

Unfortunately, I caught a mouse in my room yesterday. Put it in a plastic jar where it distracted the bejeezus out of my second period until I could get out and take it up the hill to the park. It will probably come back, but I was proud of my ninja skills.

IreneAdler

I tried a new chicken and shrimp jambalaya recipe tonight--used the crock pot--only 211 calories per serving. 'Course, I forgot that I don't have any chili powder in the house, so it's a bit bland. Has chicken, broth, tomato, tomato paste, onion, celery, salt and pepper that cooked all day. Then I just added brown rice, green and red peppers and crockpotted it on high for 30 minutes. Added cooked shrimp, and voila' !

And I have so much of it that I'll be eating it/freezing it for the next two weeks or so. I think I'll name it "Carmen"


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alaskagrown

That sounds tasty! I need a crock pot. Do they use a lot of energy?

bonniejo

You guys are scaring the crap out of me! I'm going to be a high school math teacher, but I want to be able to pee! I'm pretty sure all our teachers had a period for lunch and a period for planning everyday! Maybe I was wrong.... What am I signing up for?

kwardklinck

Wow this blizzard has me down. I have so many IEPs to do. I actually have 2 meetings scheduled for Friday but I have a feeling we will be out for the rest of the week. My car is buried in the snow. We've missed so much school (two snow days the week of Martin Luther King day) and I'm stressing because we don't seem to have enough time to get our kids ready for state testing. It's kind of nice to have a snow day every now and then but being out for a week is not so cool.