CJ and Jenn in Jose Olé

Spense, my buddy from MCC in Bremerton, came down to hang out with us for a few days. We were planning on taking him on a little hike and just hanging around in SJ but what we ended up doing is playing a lot of Wii and watching movies.

All in all it was a fun visit and though we were disappointed that the hike only lasted a day it was still nice to just hang around and mess with Spense. It was a pretty event-filled weekend- hiking, strolling on the beach, haunted house, playing video games, mini-golfing etc. I'm kinda glad to be back at work and sleeping regular hours!

Shane is going to have his first weekend off in six months (excluding Christmas) because he finishes his weekend classes this weekend. Provided he does fine in his Bio class he'll be starting Palmer in July.

There's only 8 1/2 weeks left of school and my students are getting it- I'm treating them like they are in middle school now. No messy, incomplete or late assignments are accepted, weekly reports are sent home, and instead of a standards-based grading system we are now working cummulatively (how middle school grades). This means everybody's grades are dropping. Statistically students in the district drop a whole grade level (A students become B students, C students become D students etc.) and I'm hoping that by slapping them in the face with the realities of middle school early my kids will do better. We'll see if it works.

Well the plan is we're coming home in June for a week so I hope to see many of you then!!