Category Archives: School

Books and More Books

I’ve been quite busy this week before the end of the term.  There was a major project due in the Activities for Children class, so of course I went overboard and got color copies at KINKO’s and wrote a little … Continue reading

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Probability and Simulation

Trying to keep my head above the surface. Math Class lessons are about Probability and Simulations. The more trials the more chances.  Likely or Unlikely. We are playing with dice, and flipping coins, and pulling colored balls out of a … Continue reading

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Field Trip Art Project

Looming over my head for a few days was an art project due for my Activities for Children class at HCC. I made arrangements with a friend who has a job/business as a home daycare provider to go over Monday … Continue reading

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Jumbled Thoughts and Bits

It is Friday morning and I am procrastinating a difficult errand of going to the Financial Aid office at the community college.  While there are special ways of help for old broads who want to return to school, the paperwork, … Continue reading

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Beginning of Semester

The start of a new semester. 20,000 state university students have returned to our little town on the prairie. The traffic is terrible, no one wants to wait another 3 seconds. A man had just gotten off the bus and … Continue reading

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Home at Last!

Errands in morning. Return books for money back and re-sale.  Line long at bookstore. Math for Elementary Teachers Final Exam Pencil in hand and writing from 2:05pm to 4:15pm. Did not finish last problem cuz Time called. Brain Fried. Fetched … Continue reading

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School strolls along

A friend is working on a Master’s Degree in Nursing so that she can legally be a CNP in her state.  She sent an e-mail, and it’s going on my weblog without even asking permission first.  I can taste the … Continue reading

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Wish I were Here

Update:  11am on Tuesday… The lines of typed words are sitting at the bottom of page number 10. I can hardly believe it—I have slogged my way through to the expected end. Re-reading, the flow looks good, which means I … Continue reading

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Halloween should not happen on a Monday

I have been corrected for the previous post in that oldest son Joe was a construction worker with a beard.  The tool he used, and which had a light source, was a new-fangled measuring device for figuring out the square-footage … Continue reading

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A Glimmer of Hope

Tonight’s class: Composition papers Graded and returned. My source annotated bibliography earned a 25/30. My Paper 2 Revision went from   Not Ready for Grading to a 97/100. But the surprise was the paper written last week as an In … Continue reading

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