Tag: school

• Nay moves to Texas… Continued

  17.5 years ago I sat in an interview with a principal and an assistant principal. Side note she was so scary in the interview! haha Those 2 people took a chance on a kid. I was straight out of college. Like literally I had walked across the stage 2 weeks before the interview. I could…

  naygute8

  September 24, 2025

  Friends, Good times, Grad School, Life, life lessons, my life, science, Shout out, stories from school, Student life, teacher life, Things to Ponder

  education, Friends, friendships, Life, life lessons, life of a science teacher, math, my life, pondering, reflection, school, science, Shout out, stories from school, Student life, teacher friends, teacher life, teachers, teaching, writing

• Egg Drop!

  

  Happy Saturday! I hope that everyone has had a great week! Not that anyone is counting but we only have 4 more days till summer!!! Today is muggy and gross! This is for sure part of Texas that I just never get used to, the humidity! Thursday was my favorite day of the year! Egg…

  naygute8

  May 17, 2025

  Adventures, Good times, Life, my life, science, stories from school, teacher life

  blog, city of fort worth, easter, egg drop, Family, keep fort worth beautiful, Life, life of a science teacher, middle school, my life, school, science, teacher life, teachers

• We are all over it!

  

  Happy Friday! The last couple of weeks have been super exhausting! This time of year gets like that. It’s cold, we are all tired, we are tired of each other, teachers don’t have patience, admin is only dealing with the big issues, parents aren’t answering communication from the school. It is an exhausting time to…

  naygute8

  February 21, 2025

  Life, life lessons, my life, science, stories from school, Student life, teacher life, Things to Ponder

  education, learning, Life, life lessons, life of a science teacher, my life, pondering, reflection, school, struggle, teacher life, teacher opinions, teacher tired, teachers, teaching, tired

• unpopular opinion from a teacher

  

  Happy Monday! I hope that everyone had a great weekend! I Had a pretty good weekend! I didn’t do much! haha I spent time with friends, I read a book, I did some grocer shopping, I did a load of laundry and I mopped the kitchen floor… you know, important stuff! I am so ready…

  naygute8

  December 16, 2024

  Life, life lessons, stories from school, teacher life, Things to Ponder

  Cell phones, Family, Life, life lessons, life of a science teacher, mental health, my life, parenting, pondering, reflection, school, school rules, Smart phone, social-media, stories from school, teacher life, teachers, technology, unpopular opinions

• It wasn’t bad, just not what I was expecting!

  Happy Sunday! I wrote this blog on Thursday and I never posted it! So read it that way! haha I hope that everyone is had a great week! Let me tell you about my day Tuesday! So last week the administration from school came to me and told me that I had been selected for…

  naygute8

  April 21, 2024

  my life, stories from school, teacher life

  cameras, Life, life of a science teacher, my life, photography, reflection, school, stock photos, stories from school, teacher life, teachers, teaching

• Liar liar

  Happy Friday! I hope that everyone had a good week! I can tell it is getting warmer outside because the kids smell RIPE! This week I changed seats in class! it makes my heart happy because some kids get big mad. I move kids for different reasons like they won’t stop talking, they are failing,…

  naygute8

  February 23, 2024

  Childhood, Family, Life, life lessons, my life, stories from school, Student life, teacher life, Things to Ponder

  Life, life lessons, life of a science teacher, my life, school, stories from school, Student life, students, teacher life, teaching

• oops

  Hello happy Monday! I hope that everyone is having a great day! This is a very quick update. I don’t usually blog at work but this happened this morning and I couldn’t wait! Don’t worry this is my planning period! I did some work yesterday so I am in a good place right now! Fort…

  naygute8

  January 9, 2023

  Adventures, Friends, Good times, haha, Life, life lessons, my life, stories from school

  confusion, Friends, Good times, haha, lessons, Life, life lessons, my life, school, science, stories from school

• Elevators can be scary!

  

  So here I am eating dinner at 10 PM on a Thursday night. Let me explain why! Picture this… Sicily! Wait… wrong story! Haha So the story starts Monday when none of the copy machines in the west wing were working. Pierce was trying to do a card sort. She needed nine copies on nine…

  naygute8

  February 17, 2022

  Friends, haha, Life, my life, teacher life

  Friends, haha, Life, life of a science teacher, school, stories from school, teacher life

• 7 out of 10

  This week in review:  This week was exhausting! This is week 3 of school here is how it is going: I found where another water fountain with the bottle filler is.  I submitted 3 seating charts with lists of kids that were sitting within 6 feet of my scientists (I am calling my students scientists…

  naygute8

  September 5, 2021

  consumer reports, Covid-19, find the sunshine, Friends, haha, Life, lists, my life, stories from school, teacher life, Week in Review

  back to school, consumer reports, Life, life lessons, life of a science teacher, my life, reflection, school, stories from school, teacher life, Week in Review

• Naomi and the terrible horrible no good very bad day

  Hello there! How are y’all doing. I hope that everyone is doing well. I wanted to start this post with a quick update from the last post. Yes I got to talk to my mom, she was in fact in a meeting! haha I didn’t realize I left that off and so many people asked!…

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  May 4, 2021

  consumer reports, Life, stories from school, teacher life, Things to Ponder

  consumer reports, life lessons, my life, school, stories from school, teacher life