Missed February entirely

Somehow.  It just happened that way.

Started the new semester at school after the usual being chased around by kids who hand things in at the end of the course and don't fail.  My newest classroom dealie is to lay out foam mats, each representing a decade of the 20th Century, and then have the kids correctly place items from a bucket of artifacts and toys, in the correct decades.  The trick is to refuse to let them guess, and refuse to help them find the right decade (they have computers, after all):

 

My montly routine is nicely broken up by taking a team of kids to compete in the regional Reach for the Top competitions.  This is like Jeopardy for high school kids, on local cable.  My kids beat every team they played the other week.  They is smart.

A hard drive of mine crashed this weekend.  It had important stuff in it.  I'm looking into getting the data recovered. Pricey, but almost worth it in this case.  A lot of edited and partly-edited video that I use in the classroom.  My mp3s and videos.  School stuff.

My nephew turned two this past weekend.  It was, therefore, fitting that I get him a plastic viking helmet and foam sword to run around with.  He got a riding toy and toy hockey sticks. He felt he needed to wear the helmet when using any of those and says "wear helmet" of his own accord very clearly for his age.