Save the last dance for me . . .

Actually it was the first but I got to participate in the dancing with teachers program to help raise money for the show choir, Reveille. It was not without some drama. For one we did not practice for over a week and two of the dance team members came to me early one morning before school and asked if I could still do it. They said they could pull out if necessary. I told them I was in and we practiced every afternoon that week and on Sunday afternoon. However, after the Friday practice I came home in severe pain and wondered if my back troubles of several years ago had come back to plague me. Fortunately with pain patches and meds I overcame them and was ready for the show on Tuesday night which included catching my "partner" in the group dance at the end - ouch.

We did not win the student or the judges' vote, but it was a lot of fun and students and teachers are still telling me how entertaining and funny it was and how much they enjoyed it.

This is what was in the school paper:

Super B Arrives!

I had planned for this day for weeks. It started with a trip to my barber. She thoroughly sprayed my hair orange at her shop, Bob's, in Fondren.
My students helped finish taping the wand I had designed and drilled and hot glued strobe lights from the Halloween store.

An anonymous friend made my cape after my mom in Franklin, Tn shopped for a pattern and material.

Other students helped to tape the boots and gloves. Still others decorated my googles.

And here I am arriving just in time - one of the assistant principals who was directing traffic took a double take when he realized it was super b driving to work.

All in all it was worth it. Students are talking about a following with super b shirts from each of my classes  and other students as well. A young colleague wants to be the female super b and sidekick. And the fun continues. . .

And maybe even a wave of the strobe light wand can turn underachievers into highly motivated students and average students into superstars and . . .

Teacher Feature

Each morning students in the broadcast journalism class present a quality news broadcast complete with the word of the day used in a sentence, the character word put into application, this day in history, *several announcements and a weekly teacher feature.

Guess who made it on the Thursday before Homecoming?