Thursday, March 18

I had to teach PE again since Mr. Bran not there. I had my kids run suicides to warm up (aren’t I horrible?), but I ran with them a few though. Then somehow some drama transpired between Claudia and Leonela. There were words exchanged and I think some history I didn’t know about and they were crying and blubbering. I tried to understand the problem but between them switching back and forth between Spanish and English and crying, it was tough. Thank goodness it was towards the end of class so I had the class line up for go back and took each of their hands in one of mine and we walked back to class. They were not allowed to talk to each other on the way there. I felt like a counselor, PE teacher and normal teacher today. Mr. Lara worked things out and straightened out some other drama in my class that had been happening outside class which I wasn’t aware of. I was tired after that; didn’t realize how much PE took out of me when I had to still teach during the day! Tutorias went pretty well for Language with comma rules, which is always helpful. I worked on progress reports at night; at least we don’t have them the Friday before break!