Helen Mathey-Horn's Blog

April 1st – No Fooling

This is one of two days that as a teacher (secondary) you hope will fall on a weekend. Want to guess the other? Answer at the bottom

It is not that I don’t admire good pranks, it is the constant disruption just when you thought you had a ‘flow’ going in your classroom.

I do have to admire kids that come up with good pranks. I was reminded of the 9th grade physics class with the cars and ramps and one student put an index card with a large letter “S” on his car. Second answer at the bottom.

I’m just looking forward to FLOWERS and warmer weather and even nice rain. We walked out to our car the other day and it was covered in a layer of dirt with ‘raindrop’ marks in it. All we could think was a duststorm and a rainstorm collided and yes that was about what happened. A dust storm from west Texas had blown in with a light rainstorm.

The best part of right now is the plants are starting to flower. I’ve a small bouquet of white daffodils, a hellebore and one white tulip. Only one tulip with the strength to flower.