goals revisited because of a friend

Personal goals:
Exercise 30 min. 5 times per week.  Come on really I should be able to make myself do at least this much!!!

Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables everyday.

Drink 5 glasses of water every day.

Use a small plate at dinner.

Send five postcards/notes to students& parents complementing positive behavior/ academic accomplishment per month.

Increase my supplemental retirement saving each year by at least $50.00/month every year until I reach 400.00 per month.

Summer goals:
Create smart board lessons for all major math concepts

Set up wiki space/blog for parents to access these lessons and math games/activities to practice at home. 


Next year goals:
1. set up parent/student nights to teach new math concepts

2. Set up parent teacher night s to discuss reading goals

3.  Bring real life/ community/technology into the classroom more tahn this year. 
One way:  raise money for read for the record, try to expand this activity to other Stokes County school campuses.

Long term goals:

1. literacy program for Stokes County to reach out to parents before students reach school and after??? Maybe could I?

2. Eye-to-eye program for our school campus

3. Keep thinking about my future

Goals check in

Well here we are at the end of Jnuary. I have done well with the 400 calories meals except for the last meal of the day:  MY DOWN FALL!!!  Laura and I are exercising in the school weigh room on Monday's and Fridays.  I am still not where I want to be in terms of my exercise plan. 

I spoke to Greg C. today who was the director at the school I used to work at.  He reminded me of something that I forget:  The only person I can control is myself.  So I am saying it again to reinforce it: The only person I can control is myself.  Have I done a good job today?  Have I done my best?  I can not control what others choose to do or choose not to do.  PEACE

Look Ma no hands

Learned how to create a GLOG today!!!  We are blogging Thursday in the classroom, Will try to GLOG next week and have students create a poster about something they will read from their self selected reading book.  Wish me luck!  Good luck you (: 

glog post

Only One More Day

Today is Saturday, only one more day of the cabbage soup diet.  It looks like I will have soup left over to freeze. Today I will have a steak for dinner and tomorrow RICE!!! Carbohydrates YES. Final weight posted Monday Morning when I get up, at which point I will move on to the 4- four hundred calorie meal plan until I get rid of the spare tire.  Might try Special K cereal as I can pinch More than an inch.  Not good news about the exercising on Thursday and Friday.  That would be a No, but will make up for it today and tomorrow. 

Spell Check and Vegetable Soup

     Well I think the reason that I don't have spell check is that my version of Microsoft windows is not new enough to support it.  Sorry about your luck!!!

     I have lost the holiday weight and the headache that I had for the past two days detoxing from something.  Sugar maybe???   Now I am back to where I started so it will get more difficult from here.   It is very cold so I have not walked but I have exercised each day and will again as soon as I write this.  I have not cheated on the diet YET!!  I am addicted to carbohydrates I think.  I don't miss meat at this point but would REALLY like to have bread, rice, oatmeal or  COOKIES!!! 4 more days to go after today.
HEre is a link to the cabbage soup diet:  http://www.cabbage-soup-diet.com/  I put a lot of herbs that  I froze from the garden and it is good soup, not bland, just not satisfying today day 3 of 7.

My Own Resolutions

Well, it is that time of year when people make resolutions that they are not able to keep.  I am one of those people, but I am hoping that this blog will help me stay the course.  My colesterol is high and has been and I just read that this is a contributing figure to alztiemer's(spelling)  WHERE OH WHERE IS SPELL CHECK?  I think I wondered this before.  I resolve to find out but not today.  And I am daffy enough already, I don't need to contribute to my own mental deterioration!!!

1.  follow cabbage soup diet for 7 days.  One day done...have not cheated.
2.  Eat 4 400 calorie meals per day after that until I reach 118 lbs.  (15 lbs to lose)
3.  In 90 days be able to do 5 real push-ups
4. Exercise 4 days per week.  Exercised yesterday, going to today.

Education
Incorperate more technology
complete National Board Entries

Am going to send this link to several people so that they will be "witnesses"  Happy New Year!