Assessment
July 18, 2010 | Filed Under Family, School | Leave a Comment
Zufan’s language and cognition were assessed since she’ll be starting pre-school this fall with her brother. She performed pretty well.
Last Day of Camp
July 18, 2010 | Filed Under Family, School | Leave a Comment
Debabu enjoyed day camp at his pre-school this summer where he got to work and play with Krista, a former student of one of my CDO colleagues logging practicum hours working with children to complete her university coursework. He had a great time over six weeks.
Last Day of School
June 12, 2010 | Filed Under Family, School, Transitions | Leave a Comment
Debabu finished his first semester of pre-school successfully at the end of May. He’s here with his teacher, Candy, and her assistant, Marina, but he’ll be back for summer day camp
Class Picnic
August 9, 2009 | Filed Under Celebrations, School, Students, Transitions | Leave a Comment
To celebrate my return to CDO and their departure to schools across the country (really an excuse to hang out with friends), several of my former students decided to throw a picnic party in my classroom at school. Brennan, one of my first APELCers, organized the get together that included old and new pupils; it felt nice to have earned the high praise of the gift of my students’ time. Good, sharp kids. I hope they do well.
Dancing Dorados
May 14, 2009 | Filed Under Culture, Family, Recreation, School, Students | Leave a Comment
Last night CDO’s dance classes hosted Life’s Better When You Dance (and don’t I believe it), a showcase of students’ kinetic arts efforts. Logan and Sam are advanced students, and were students juniors in my AP English Language and Composition class my first year. Here Logan mimes a devil-may-care collar-popping move from one of the night’s pieces he performed with Sam.
T-12
May 6, 2009 | Filed Under School, Transitions | Leave a Comment
This is my room, T-12, at school, which it appears I’ll be vacating soon. There’s nothing worse than an uncared-for, disorganized classroom with piles of tattered papers, moldy books, and broken computers stacked anywhere there’s extra space and trash all over the floor, so It’s a great space that I tried to make it inviting and comfortable, a place where student don’t mind spending part of the school day.
End of the Line
May 1, 2009 | Filed Under School, Students, Transitions | Leave a Comment
Michael (and the Venus), Brennan, Logan, Hannah, Sam, and Addie, six regular visitors to T-12, my room at CDO at the end of the line. They’re special seniors who’re graduating later in the month. These kids and many of their peers who suffered through my AP English Language and Composition class I’ll miss greatly, but they’re off to bigger and better things and I’m proud of them.
CDO Fine Arts Showcase
April 12, 2009 | Filed Under Culture, Family, Recreation, School, Students | Leave a Comment
The institution where I teach, Canyon del Oro High School, hosted its second annual showcase of fine arts, which included performances by our orchestras, bands, choir, dancers, and actors, and highlighted students’ paint, plastics, and photography productions. I finally was able to experience my excellent students Michael, Addie, and Elise perform, and I was able to see others of my students’ artifacts. Of course, Zufan and Debabu were a hit, as they always, inevitably are.
