October 30, 2009 • 1:02 pm
Here in St. Louis we abide by the old rules: kids have to tell a joke (trick) to get their candy. Laura was amazed when she moved to other parts of the country and learned that kids do not, in fact, have to say anything at all to get candy. (She was even more shocked to find that we Hayses usually found a good movie at the theater on Halloween so as to avoid the trick-0r-treaters altogether.)
So Sophia and Ira need some good jokes. Do you have any cheesy jokes you want to share? …appropriate for a six and a four year old. Geez, it’s bad when I have to reprimand my blogging audience to keep it clean.
On a similar note, we’re really homesick for Brooklyn right now. We loved this time of year in Brooklyn. It was on Halloween that we met and got to know Jodi, Anson and Roan. We’ve spend every Halloween since with them hanging out on our stoop on Hoyt St. The neighborhood kids would come and hang with us as well. We would order pizza, drink soda and hand out candy to any and every one. (Oh, and Jodi would get hit on by pre-teens.) We’re gonna make new memories and start new traditions here in The Lou (get ready Pribish clan!) and we’re excited about that. But to all our Halloween compadres back in bklyn: BOO!
Filed under: Brooklyn, family, friends, holidays
October 24, 2009 • 7:41 pm
Okay, so it’s time I post some pics of the pennants and tees you sent my way. This post is long overdue so I hope you’ll forgive me.
I can’t tell you how cool my room looks thanks to the pennants and tees. Not only do my kids love the room but my colleagues do as well. And this past Thursday and Friday, I had parent-teacher conferences and every parent who showed up (14 of 22, not bad!) said something like, “So these are the colleges I keep hearing about.”
So here are some pictures to help you visualize the room. Someday I’ll take you on a video tour of my room but for now, check out the pictures. And if you don’t see the tee or pennant you sent me, never fear, it’s up somewhere in the room. It just may not have been captured in these set of pictures.
Filed under: Uncategorized
October 17, 2009 • 3:24 am
Okay, so this video is 13 minutes long. I so know you don’t have 13 minutes to kill but the stories are good. I promise.
Filed under: teaching
October 9, 2009 • 2:57 am
A friend of mine is a blogger who calls herself “Lone Star Lifer.” Not long ago, she wrote a post about what I’m up to and went on to nominate me as the teacher who should win a $100 Office Max gift certificate. My friend must be pretty convincing. I won. She called me with the news today. I was totally excited. She asked, “What will you use the money for?”
COPY PAPER! Woo-hoo!
She went on to say that she’s sending me more stuff like books and such. Lone Star Lifer is going above and beyond and I’m so incredibly grateful. She then went on to say that there is yet another Office Max giveaway but that she was ineligible to nominate me again.
So what do you say you go over to Lone Star Lifer’s blog and find out where you need to go and what you need to do to score me some more change to spend at Office Max? Pretty please?
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This is a conversation I had with a student today.
Student – Mr. Hays, I told my mom I want to go to Yale University.
Me – Yeah?
Student – Yeah, so then we looked it up and Mom says that it’s in Connecticut. She said that’s a long way from here but that if I really want to go there, she would help me get there.
Me – So do you really want to go there?
Student – Well, didn’t you say it’s one of the best colleges there is?
Me – Yes.
My student looks at me like I’m crazy and says – I want to go to the best school there is, Mr. Hays.
Point taken. Reach for the stars, my dear students, reach for the stars.
Filed under: friends, teaching
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