Cough, cough -- sniffle, sniffle

I may have infected your kid with the dreaded "Paraskevidekatriaphobia (pronounced: Pair-uh-skee-vee-dek-uh-tree-uh-foh-bee-uh) Virus. That's Greek for Fear of Friday the 13th. Sorry about infecting them. We conducted an experiment as to how bacteria travel from one person to the next. The virus is on my website. Today, I used "superbug," since that is the catch phrase for MRSA -- an antibiotic resistant staph infection. If anything, they learned the importance of washing hands and not trading flip flops.
Hee hee. I used hydrogen peroxide as my virus cup and then used plain ole bleach as the activator. It made the peroxide fizz and "showed" students how virus can spread throughout a population.
Tomorrow, we find out who had the initial infected cup. Funny, all the kids wanted to be infected and be the source of the infection. I showed them my swollen leg, the result of a MRSA attack several years ago. That did not sway them.

Social Studies
My social studies class gave their presentations, yesterday, on one of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. They had all marking period to work on this project. Four entire class periods and time that equates to four more complete class periods to assembly a five minute skit. The group that did the first amendment was "awesome." Thanks Shelby, Andru, Shannon, Dajah and Robbie -- I was impressed. Two other groups became flustered and "messed-up" their skits. Too bad. The premise of the seventh and nineth amendments were clever, despite the poor delivery. Hey! Not everyone is cut out to be a Shakesperean actor. One group was so upset, they wanted a "do-over," tomorrow. Sorry, girls, what can you accomplish in 24 hours that you could not do in eight weeks. Still, I enjoyed all three skits. A fourth group wanted to do a powerpoint presentation, but to burn the powerpoint onto a flashcard did not work and they will fix and present tomorrow. I have no clue what the fifth group will do, we ran out of time.

Marking Period Over
Wednesday is the end of the marking period. My social studies class moves on to another teacher -- I get a fresh crop. OOOOOhhhhhhhh.