I REALLY can't wait to be done. I'm going to miss my kids. You get attached after two years. But... the adults...

Fifth grade decided to do fun events for the students the last 4 days of school - a picnic, movie day, an ice cream social and a field day. Three of those days are half days. The job share team is useless for doing any of the planning. I don't dare ask the one with anxiety to do anything and her partner is so clueless about anything outside their classroom. The other teacher in the team, any time I see her, she's sighing heavily and saying, "Ai, ai, ai." I guess because her class is just driving her crazy. We asked our students to bring in money to help off set the cost of our picnic at a local water park - 10 bucks a kid to pay for admission, pizza, drinks, snacks, parking and craft supplies. I have 26 kids going. I have $260. The other two classes have $50 and $140. They each have about 25 kids going.

Our clientele is basically the same. I don't have more well off families. I did have two families donate more than what was asked for and a couple of kids who didn't bring in anything. One of the nice things about taking the combo class next year, is I will not be working so closely with these teachers anymore.

Veronica