Short Week

It's been a short week at Barnyard, so my already limited time there was cut even shorter. Nothing exciting happened, at least not yet, today may bring with it some good blog fodder...

Valentine's Day

Since there is no school for mid-winter break starting tomorrow, all of the Valentine's day festivities were held today! The chicks were wound up, as was to be expected, hyped up on the promise of oodles of candy and combined with a 4-day weekend! Yikes.

The teachers were equally jazzed today - far less for the candy than the long weekend I'm sure, but there is something about recieving those extra special Valentine gifts from the students that has to warm the heart. Plus it's an excuse to have a class party!!

There were festivities in the staff room today and the sunshine committee had decorated it with construction paper conversation hearts, with the names of all the staff, hanging from the ceiling. It was sweet.

I am definitely looking forward to the long weekend and not having to get up and dressed to stand outside, for an extra two mornings this weekend. Bliss.

Worth It?

I think we forgot it was still winter. 31* outside at work today. I could have been in my PJ's instead of squeezing into too-tight jeans because they were the only ones I could find that were clean and bundling up to work the backyard. We were down by 2 backyard hens today - the Rooster stole the sub so he could do whatever it was that he does...

I work 20 minutes a day. Since I have to drive my own chicks to school anyway and it's close by, it's not out of my way to go to work. My 20 minutes keeps me on the seniority list, keeps my chicks at the school of our choice, and gives me a little extra spending $ at the end of the month, year-round. Plus I get summer and all of the school breaks off.

Hmmm, perspective.

Truth and Lies

Monday. The usual suspects were in trouble again. They have a hard time following basic rules. Disciplinary Action was doled out but I forgot to pass it on to the mid-day hens who would have to carry it out.
Tuesday. I asked them about it and half the class said they fulfilled their punishment, the other half just kept their mouths shut - I verified that DA was not fulfilled. Dissapointing.
I was totally going to let them off the hook too. Sadly they had gotten another threatened DA from the Rooster so they ultimately wound up doing 4x the time, whereas had they just told the truth to begin with, they would have not had to do any.
Today they were one of the only classes that didn't have any issues.