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It was a wonderful day...for many reasons.

1. I had 4 kids absent. During math on Fridays I also send 3 kids to Chess Camp and I have 1 student who goes to math in another classroom. Let's do the math: 21 total students minus 4 sick kids minus 3 at Chess Camp minus 1 at his other class equals 13 students during math today. If I could have only 13 kids in class all the time, I swear I would never ever ever complain about anything else.

2. Besides math, I only had 17 kids all day. I'll take that any day...seriously! It was probably the nicest day I've had since teaching.

3. My principal has yet to observe me.

4. The weather was gorgeous and our lunch in the courtyard was a great ending to a great week.

5. EVERY student that was actually in class was having an "on" day...Elliot, Victor, and Richard included!