Leprechauns, Construction, Parents, Bagel

Friday was fun!
Two classes solved the leprechauns problem. Better than Ghost the Bunny? Maybe.
Thanks to Carl and Emmy and Livingstone and Samantha for their assistance.
And the constructions in geometry, everyone got better, didn’t they? And we played a game (will anyone find the rules over the weekend? A homework pass is at stake.)
And thanks to [...]

Farewell (and some stalking)

Friday after school a bunch of teachers (and assorted other adults) took Ms. Barber and her pilot out to dinner on East Tremont.
The meal was a course at a time, family-style (some for everyone). Rodriguez negotiated a fantastic menu:
Appetizers

thin crust pizza
fried calamari
sliced tomato with mozzarella
eggplant rollatini

Pasta

Penne a la vodka
Ziti with broccoli, garlic, oil

Entrees

Veal Marsala
Some sort [...]

Bittersweet grease and sweat

The end of the term feels different than the rest of the schoolyear, and this end of term is even differenter. The schedules are all floppy, and we don’t do normal things in class. I haven’t been behaving normally (from about age 9 on, but that’s a different story). Today I’m writing about the last [...]