I hate inside recess, my students love it

Teachers are so not paid enough. :) 

There is only ONE thing that I HATE about the rain. I L-O-V-E everything else about it, but the one thing I hate?

Inside recess (good bye half hour of my lunch time).

Joys of teaching

Joys of teaching early childhood education is that you get to see their inventive spelling. I love it. The students had homework where they had to think of math stories or objects to add up to 14. One example would be :
9 pinecones and 5 acorns on the forest floor. 

Here are some of the ones that were found in their work, all of them are typed exactly the way they did it:

Student 1 just moved from CA. You can tell. Every thing this student has a choice on choosing a subject or theme, it has to do with beaches. Below is an example of one of the math stories :) 

Student1
"I went to 1 beach then to 13 more beaches how many beaches in all?"

Student2
"I have 9 pentsals and a girl gave me 5 more pensal now haw mach pensals do i have?"

Student 3
"I have 8 shirtes and 6 pairs of shoes. how many peaces of clothing do i have?"

Student 4
"my sister has 14 candies :( and I have 0. How many candies do we have?" (yes the frowny face was there).

Student 5
"I wode like 2 glasis of milk and I wode like 12 lofs of bred. haw meney toogetr?"

Student 6
"i planted 9 onions and my dad planted 5 really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hot peppers, and we had 14 together"

And finally student 7, took me a minute to figure it out.
"6 strabeers and 8 blu beers"


I love it! :)

I love teaching

Aw man! So glad it's Friday. It may have only been a four day working week, but it was still an exhausting week. 

I can't believe it's been 2 1/2 weeks since I first started teaching. Unbelievable. My kids are still great. No major behavior stuff, haven't had to send any notes home. I have had to ask kids to go sit at their desk for some think time before changing the behavior card, but, nothing serious enough to alarm the parents. 

It's funny, I thought I had the seating chart all set up perfectly. Then I realize, I never will because someone will always hit it off with the person next to them. Which is a great thing when it comes to social development, but tough at times when it comes to classroom learning. :) It's still cute though. 

I love that Friday is casual day. That means I get to wear jeans. Before actually teaching, I couldn't believe that teachers would wear jeans to school. I mean, professionalism! hello! Now that I'm here, I can't WAIT to wear jeans. It's like the best thing about Fridays! :) 

One other cute thing. The kids have started giving me hugs when leaving for the day or coming in. I didn't expect that at all (I'm not a huggy person at all, not even with my own family, just with my hubby). But it's just nice to know that no matter what, the kids still like me at the end of the day/week. :) It's an ego booster, even if it's from someone who is only seven or eight years old. :) 

Ah, Teaching. I absolutely love it :)