Looooooooooong day!

So today was pretty long... For the next two months, I have bus duty nearly EVERY morning from 8:15-8:40 (school starts at 8:45). Crazy. And THEN I have tutoring until 5pm.

Sure, a normal 8-5 job is fine... when you're in an office. When you're on your feet instructing, directing, and redirecting all day, it gets to be quite exhausting. A full day of teaching AND tutoring is becoming insane, especially with half an hour of my mornings spent herding children away from huge buses.

Anyway, I'm still astounded at how FAST time is going! We're already in our 2nd week back from Fall Break, and next week is the end of October. I hear November and December FLY by, so I can only imagine how that's gonna go.

Another factor that compounds my exhaustion is that my students and I are working on a YouTube video. I wrote a song last week called "Order of Ops," and it goes to the song "The Cupid Shuffle." (You can look up "Cupid Shuffle" on YouTube if you haven't heard the original.) Good song. Anyway, I rewrote the lyrics so they pertain to the order of operations. The kids got pretty into the song, and the other 6th grade math teacher suggested I record it and put it on YouTube.

Sooooooooooo the process has been crazy so far! I had to get permission slips from EVERY student who wants to participate, and I'm not letting them participate if they don't have their homework in EVERY day, this week and last. We're practicing during lunch (which is when I usually make copies), and we'll record it Friday at lunch. Then, Friday after school, it goes on YouTube.com. Crazy!!

Since the project is above and beyond the scope of the class, I'm not counting it as a grade (or extra creit); it's just for fun. This means that only the students who WANT to be there are. It also gives me some liberty to kick the kids out who are messing around.

Eeesh!! It's already later than I thought, and I've gotta go get tomorrow set up.

Cheers!

P.S. Here are my song lyrics:


Order… of Ops! (Repeat 5x)


(hook)
Down, down, do your math, do your math (Repeat 4x)

Verse One:
They say I'm a teacher, and I say yeah
They say what you doing, tryin’ to do some crazy math?
I just let the order of operations go
So all my classes can pass the 6th grade, yo
They got some crazy math, you gotta move your pencil
Crazy math, it's called the triple-O
It don't matter if you're 11 or you’re12 (here we go)
We gone show you how it go

Chorus:
Parentheses, parentheses, parentheses, parentheses,
Exponents, exponents, exponents, exponents,
Now mult or div, now mult or div,
Now add or subtract, now add or subtract
(let me see you do)

(hook) + Chorus (2x)

Verse Two:
Now you see what I'm talking about
I represent for the Bulldogs, yo
Where we known for mathing out
I'm gonna show you what I'm talking about

(hook 2x) + Chorus (2x)

Verse Three:
And do the order of ops
Do the order of Ops
It's ya friend PEMDAS, PEM to the DAS
Crazy math on the track, got another hittin beat
(here we go, hey)

(hook)