So I find it fascinating that we have lived here for three months now and yesterday was the second time some freak tried to 'pick me up' at the library. I think I blogged about the first time when I was trying to translate an email from my spanish instructor and asked everyone around me if they could read spanish and then one guy was like "no but let me show you this website...what's your name? Do you come here often? Maybe we can hang out?" and then yesterday the dude's name is Paul and I was looking at CD's when he shoved a Black Eyed Peas album in my face and says, this is a great one. It gots that really cool song you know, :::Singing::: "Where is the love, the love...." He was totally scary so I was being polite just standing there and he's like so can I get your number. Aren't they supposed to check the ring finger still? I told him my husband might not like that and he was like, "Yeah I did hear you say we but I was thinking it was your sister or somethng." yikes!
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This Thanksgiving week is going to be a crazy one! On Thanksgiving we are getting up at like 4:30 am to drive to Chicago to get on the train and go spend Thanksgiving with Grandma and Grandpa West. We should arrive around 10:15. Grandpa is going to pick us then we are spending about 7.5 hours with them, catch the train back home to make a very late night. Then I have to be at work on Friday at 7:45 in the AM until 6:15 that night. Then when I get off work we are driving to a train stop near chicago to grab the amtrak for thanksgiving dinner with my family which my brother is coming up this weekend from Tennessee. We should be in Champaign around 11:00pm Then we get spend Saturday and part of Sunday when we ride the train back home. :) Lots of trains this week!
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I observed a class yesterday that was very interesting. The teacher does differiential instruction. And she gives a pre-test before they start the chapter then she creates an ability grouping chart each with a combination of 6 reasearch, review questions, writing and drawing assignments. These are based on which areas each student needs to study. Then she gives each student the worksheet that corrlates with how much they know. Each student then chooses three squares to work on that week. And when they are done they take their tests. I thought this was cool because some students were on Chapter 10 while others were on Chapter 6. It's kind of like an independant study in 8th grade. She said is is a lot more work than just normal classroom instruction but the kids really seem to enjoy working at their own pace (but they have to stay with where the class would normally be for that point of the school year.) Not nearly as many disruptions and only one student has a grade lower than a C. Which according the the teacher is really good. So new ideas, new ideas. It was fun to watch.
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