Three Things Thursday

1. Wednesday I went to a conference (another week without being in the classroom all five days). It was an excellent time. The presenters were a husband/wife team from San Diego but originally from Burlington.  He was an absolute riot.  He managed to teach us a lot while being highly entertaining.  The conference was on co teaching which seems to be the new hot teaching method around here although I am sure it's not new everywhere. My principal sent me to a co teaching workshop early in the year and the special educator was there too. She rearranged her schedule and we are now co teaching math together with the help of other adults.  We are quite committed and I expect it will continue into future years if schedules allow.  I won't share all the stories this guy told but one of his funniest ones was something his teenage daughter said to him once.  As he says it  wasn't funny to him at the time, but what  a great line when the circumstances are right.

"Buy yourself a dog. 
Name it Clue,
 then you'll have one." 

Wish I had said it first but now I've got to wait for the perfect opportunity to use it.

2. I only went to the gym once this week. I had a great speed workout which surprised me.  Maybe one of these days I will have MY speed back.  Today I had my bag all packed for the gym but when I walked out of the building it was pretty nice out so once again I drove home instead and hit the road.  Absolutely the right decision.

3.  Happy St. Patrick's Day!  I wore my race shirt - love it when I have a legit reason to wear a t-shirt to work.  I wore my bright green shoes too.  When I picked up my bib last Friday in DC there were some St. Patrick's Day tattoos to take. Well, I may have taken a few extra enough for both third grades.  Today I was loved as we paused in our learning to apply tattoos!

Reading - Well, I recently finished the new Jodi Picoult book. I enjoyed it a lot.  
Watching - I am almost at the end of Season 3 in Lost. In fact I am going to have to stop blogging and go watch some.

Have a great weekend.  I want to read about lots of good runs and weekends.  I am sure I will have them too but I also need to work on report cards.  Not so sure I want it to be nice on Saturday while I am stuck doing them.