Mr. Locke’s Classroom

It’s Monday night. School’s tomorrow. Easter break is over. Spring break is a fading memory, and now it’s a long hard push to summer. I bet you thought students were the only ones to think that way… In other news, Grady is learning to crawl–look out world (and all other objects he thinks he can [...]

Pinkeye sucks. I’m sitting here at my computer with a big patch over my right eye, which is mostly to keep me from touching it, rubbing it, and making things worse. Things look different with one eye, and I keep tripping over things when I walk through the house. So now I know how a [...]

I had the honor of watching the first Romeo & Juliet Performance Projects today. Several were very good, a few were hard to watch, but all were worth the while…Among my favorite moments were: Daisy and Joe with a “cool, mellow, laid back” Balcony Scene Gisela, Olivia, Maribel, and Janet with a “street brawl” fight [...]

The pilot light on our house’s heating unit picked a winner of a time to go out. And stubbornly refuse to be relighted. We had some one from the yellow pages out to look at it last night, but I think he was more interested in selling us a new AC than repairing the old [...]

Congratulations to the freshman class–you worked together and pulled it off, beating sophomores, juniors, and seniors to win the homecoming decoration competition. One of the things I love most about teaching freshmen is this time of year–I get to watch a bunch of kids from various middle schools and social cliques put aside their differences [...]

I’ll take a brief digression from babyland (though he’s in my arms as I blog–one handed,that is) to ask how Sunset High School managed to get along without me today? Was the substitute at least of the human species? And who won the Academic Decathlon Jeopardy challenge? I’ll post an entry tomorrow on the Steinbeck [...]

We painted his room. I assembled his crib, varnished his chest of drawers, put together his rocking chair. We plugged in the nightlight, hung all his little clothes, got all the diapers ready next to the changing table. I even put together his toys and played with them. So where the heck is this kid?????? [...]