If you had any idea, even vaguely, of how hot it's been in my classroom this week then you would understand why I haven't put up a post since Tuesday, let alone visited any of yours.
I'm sorry.
The pencils above give a pretty good indication of how things are going all around. The dear children in my class are driven to distraction with the humidity in a corner room, closed off to any possible air circulation with windows that don't open for everyone's "safety" in a school with no air conditioning whatsoever.
The children have been sharpening their pencils in between my lessons. When I saw them, I had to laugh. "Hand them over," I said, "so I can take a picture."
Needless to say, there's not been much reading Chez Bellezza. Taking baths and going to bed at 8:30, yes. Reading from my stack of glorious books? Not so much.
But, it's Labor Day Weekend. And I'll be free of Labor for at least three days. Surely in that time I can post on the books I've received this week: The Mathematician's Shiva by Stuart Rojsyaczer, River by Michael Ferris Smith, and We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas. Surely I can comeby to see what you've been doing while I've been sweating.
