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I managed to enter the teacher workforce just in time for the economic downturn several years ago. I eventually took a position at a charter school in Tucson, Arizona, teaching fifth grade, which I dearly loved, but at a cost - leaving behind family and friends. So I returned to Oregon and substituting. Now I am working towards obtaining my Reading Endorsement through the READOregon Program, and have been hired to teach an afterschool Art Club, which is what I blog about here. I also volunteer to help with homework for another group of afterschoolers.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

"Captain-isms" & Other Overheard Phrases

Words I have to put up with on a weekly basis during staff meetings:
li-bary (library, note the two r's, please!)
prah-jec (project)
cal-cuh-late (calculate)
ack-raht (accurate)
a-sep-tible (acceptable)
"Mrs. X do help us copy them off." (seriously, straight from the Captain's mouth.)

From students:
"What constellation is the Big Diaper?" (Um, Big Dipper, perhaps?)
"combinated"
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