I guess when I contemplated doing the August Break, I took it as a break for a month from blogging . . . good thing I didn’t sign up for it since I clearly didn’t fully grasp the concept. That being said, it’s time for another 10 on 10. When I started this, I planned on picking my day from the previous month. But like all good plans, this one fell by the wayside in the lovely month of August. It’s a really tricky month for me: my anniversary, my parents’ anniversary, at least three birthdays (really more like six or seven when you add in cousins), plus several other anniversaries. And then there’s the whole back-to-school fun. So getting a 10 on 10 day done during August wasn’t in the cards. Trust me, if you saw me right now, I’m not looking too concerned. So, without any further explanation on my part, here’s my day on September 4, from the moment I stepped into my classroom and booted up the computer to the time when I finally said, “Enough! Go to bed, you idiot . . . you’ve got school in the morning!”
I change the desktop image of my computer daily. It’s almost always a photo of my daughters.
We are working on Word Snapshots at school. List the things you like, dislike, and think are popular now. Color code it for later.
Their artwork is always better than mine, but they are still kind enough to say my work is “nice.”
Tina is working on a project with our students. Technology hasn’t been our friend these days.
‘Tis my good luck owl. It’s really just an eraser I liked.
Bus duty at the end of the day . . . kinda chaotic.
Those raindrops? Not a good sign . . . my wipers stopped working this morning.
Turns out they can’t get the wipers to work . . . and it’s pouring rain.
Caught a ride from a friend. Came home to a table full of “fun” and usually Olive
Going to bed after a long, long day
Thankfully, my windshield wipers now work (first they wouldn’t turn on, then they wouldn’t turn off . . . it was comical). Now head on over to the lovely Laura Louise and see what she’s got cooking for her 10 on 10.
Unraveling This Life 
Those shots made me miss school. I want to ride a bus and get cool stuff. Lovely month.
There are other ways to get cool stuff. And riding on a bus? Really not that much fun.
It’s so crazy to see computers on kids desks to me. I told my niece last summer that the internet wasn’t invented when I was a kid – and she looked at me stone cold, then burst out laughing and ran back to what she was doing. I also love your screen saver ritual….
Don’t you love kids and their “assumptions” about time? My students come up with some of the biggest misnomers I’ve ever heard. This morning’s screen saver was a shot from the first 10 on 10.
I love seeing slices of your classroom life! Your students are lucky as hell to have you, lady.
I’d like to do more in the classroom, but I have to be so careful not to get a student’s face in the photo . . . I’m pretty sure some would laugh at you for the last statement.
I love the school bus diptych very much x.
Thanks! I just couldn’t decide between the two, so I went with both.
Wait. You have a Holga!? :O
Don’t get your knickers in a twist . . . it’s a cheap little plastic lens that I still have yet to figure out 🙂 I’ll bring it North and have you tell me how to use it.
LOVE that first photo and the eraser? Perhaps the cutest I’ve ever seen. HOLGA????? HAve you been holding out on us?!
The eraser has a little twin some place, but I can’t remember where I put it. I have yet to figure out the Holga lens, but I’m pretty sure I know where to go for help 🙂
Love your snapshots of life, beautiful angles & that project with color coding sounds fun!!
It’s a really fun project, Rachel: green for likes, red for dislikes, and blue for “cool” now. Fill up half a poster board with your name in the center. Mainly words and a few doodles . . . hence the name, Word Snapshot.
This is fabulous! I love that you tell a bit of your day as a teacher! It totally brings me back to my school days, minus the laptop. Of course.
Laptops make it easier but more challenging at the same time. I’m very grateful for the access that we have with them . . . so very grateful.
Erika said these shots made her miss school… I feel the opposite. I do NOT miss school 🙂
I don’t get the missing school, but then again, I’m very rarely if ever not there.
The school bus shots… big fave!!
They were so nice and shiny that day 🙂
love the whole story! Makes me miss school, but only for five seconds. 😉
I never miss school because I’m never away from it. The kid were treated to my “dancing” today . . . poor kids.
oh bus duty. hated it! it’s like school is out!! oh never mind. loved your day and glad your wipers are workin again..
It’s so chaotic, but locker duty at the end of the day is even worse because you’re hurrying kids out to the buses . . . kinda like herding cats.
it never ceases to amaze me that you guys start school so much later than here (or how lucky your students are to have you as their teacher). you make me want to spend a week (at least) in your classroom.
Come on up! I’m pretty sure that I could swing it . . . we listened to “It’s Tricky” today and I thought of you 🙂
i love that you’re busting that out so early in the year!