I moved my Algebra I students into the lab and I am in the process of automating the class. Not major automation as these kiddos aren’t the brightest crayons in the box. Some of them are midnight blue, but very few of them are yellow. They are all definately rescues — All have taken Algebra I at least once before.
We have a very cool copier which I absolutely adore. I drop the worksheets that the Math coach gives me into the copier, put my email address in the control panel and hit send. All my orginals run through the scanner and I get an email with a PDF attached. I also have Acrobat, so I can pull out the individual pages and put them in seperate files.
So my kids are getting a packet of paper approximately every day (instead of a textbook) and they can go to the website where I have the same packet organized. I’ve been putting notes and answers on the pages with Acrobat. They don’t like that I control their computer when I teach class, but they are stating to get over it. The same kids aren’t paying attention as before, but at least the kids that were hitting other kids who WERE paying attention are now in training to race cars or kill aliens (playing computer games), after I finish.
I keep hoping they will wake up and start taking school seriously. Let’s see, today, 3 of my darlings were in In School Suspension, and I only put one of them there.
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But as to me. My blood sugars have been stable so far this week. The first time since the teaching change. My insulin usage is still high — yesterday it was 50, and right now, I’m just under 35. I probably need to eat something since my blood sugar was 120 at 8:00. I don’t have enough guts to do that yet especially since I’m not already not sleeping all night. I’ve managed to stay in bed all night, though I was pushing it last night.
I have started exercising regularly again, since I don’t have PT for my knee. It burned some blood sugar but not enough. The knee is loads better, and probably at 90%.