Doug has become obsessed with cycling. His birthday was Sunday and he got a road bike for the triathlon he's been training for. Right now his bike is in our living room (and has been since Sunday). He talks about it like it's a member of the family. He bought it used and it has the name Andrew painted on the bar under the seat. This moniker comes in handy in conversation. For example, Doug says things like "Andrew and I were watching TV together." or "I just need to get Andrew cleaned up." Can't you just hear it? He's been getting all the accessories and is now fully outfitted. The weather has been warm and he's planning on going on a big ride this weekend. As many things as Doug and I have in common, this type of training is not something I can identify with.
I've been thinking of all you with the sad news from Door County. Doug and I have had it on our minds and have talked about it a lot, so I can only imagine what it's been like for all of you.
I've been at Bradford Woods (which is an outdoor education camp program) with my fifth graders for the past three years and I'm completely beat. It's great fun and the kids absolutely love it, but it's really hard work for teachers and just requires us to be "on" 24 hours a day. So many of my kids have never experienced hiking, fishing, etc; not to mention family style meals and "please pass the potatoes." It's so fun to be there to experience that stuff with them.
We've had a HUGE response to the charter school. Despite our critics before we were chartered, we have WAY more applicants than we have spots for students. We have to do a lottery this weekend for any grade levels that have more applicants than spots and we never thought we would need to do one for any grade levels other than kindergarten. As of now we'll need to do a lottery for every grade level except 6th. We had hoped to have 100 applicants by April and at last count we were at 260. It's really exciting, but also stressful. We don't want to turn people away and are really worried that because it's random, we won't necessarily get the kids who really need this school.
Well, that's all I can think of for now. I have a meeting in an hour and then I need to come home and take a nap.
Love to you all!
Here are some more London pics:
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I'm commenting on my own blog because I was just rereading this post and realized that I made it sound like I had been at Bradford Woods with my fifth graders for the past 3 years. Ha! I was trying to say I was there with my fifth graders who have been in my class since they were in the third grade and therefore I've been with them fro 3 years. Oh well... I'm guessing that anyone who read it figured out I haven't been living at an outdoor adventure camp since 2006. :-)
Hiawatha....
fro=for
At this point I'm just talking to myself, on the internet, repeatedly, for all the world to see.
I need to go to bed.
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