She's got a great RACK...

I hope my perverted teenage mind isn't too much for you :) Anyways...

***WARNING: RANT AHEAD***

So y'all probably know what RACK stands for. If you don't, that's okay (I found out a couple hours ago), it stands for random act of Christmas kindness. Now I'm all for random acts of kidness (we call that a mitzvah). Oh wait, look at that, someone just used a hebrew word. I bet you can guess what this rant is about...

First of all, I love Farley to bits. She's great, and I should probably do her currentlys, they're so fun and cute. And we share a love of mustaches. But her post about a RACK led me to this rant. Specifically, she has this thing she's doing with her kidlets that involves them doing a RACK and adding a note which mentions that it's a says random act of Christmas kindness. Frankly, I feel like this is insensitive. Sure, I get it if you're whole classroom celebrates Christmas, but are you positive your whole school does* and anyone encountering this note? And I'm not done yet.

I follow a number of teaching blogs, and it seems everyone is doing Christmas related stuff. Full out Christmas. My feed has been bombarded with red and green and elves and santas and evergreen trees, etc.When I was in elementary school, that certainly did not fly. Sure, that's really cool that 95% of the population celebrates Christmas, but it seems everyone is being a bit ignorant and insensitive. Now, I'm not the kind of person who flips out whenever someone wishes me a merry Christmas, but this got me upset. Could it be a random act of holiday kindness? Or a random act of winter kindness? I guess not. Which is why, in my plans, there are no Christmas related activities. Unless other holidays are included. So for me, RACK stands for random act of Chanukah kindness. Or I could still just call it a mitzvah.

Nonetheless, I still would like to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season, no matter what you celebrate.

Miss Lena
* Watch her teach at a Christian school... now I sound like an idiot...

Traveling and Subs

No, not the sandwich kind. But in the teacher blog world, I doubt anyone would see that and think of sandwiches. But I digress.

I do a lot of traveling, mostly due to my dad's job and the fact that most of our family lives on the east coast. This is problematic for teachers. Since I can't just say to my parents "sorry, can't go on this trip, I have to teach a theoretical class!", I figured I'd have to make do. So I've been doing sub planning. (This includes reading Sub Hub. Lovely blog.) My first order of business was this:

That is literally the title of my doc. It's pretty self-explanatory. Since I don't have an *actual* classroom, it's a good place to put my thoughts. But where do subs come in? As an elementary student, I hated subs because they didn't do things the way the real teacher did it. I realized that this document would be really super helpful for a sub, especially a longer-term one. They would have more of an idea as to what the heck is going on.
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In other news, I finished my noun posters and might throw 'em up on TpT.
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Happy Chrismakwanzakah to all!

Miss Lena