Bryan is sick as a dog. Please keep in your thoughts and prayers. He tested positive for strep tonsillitis today, was so dehydrated earlier that he had to have an IV to get some fluids in him. He didn't feel sick until this morning (crazy huh?) It's now the middle of the night and he's gone back downhill with the fever and throwing up. So any thoughts and prayers are appreciated, (especially because I do NOT want to clean up puke again...bleh).
Thanks
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Friday, September 22, 2006
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).
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).
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
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! :)
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! :)
Friday, September 8, 2006
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 :)
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 :)
Thursday, August 31, 2006
I seem to be sick a lot
I hate being sick. Really, I hate it. Especially now that I'm teaching and it's only the first full week of school. I had to miss a district meeting last night and had to leave after only an hour and a half when the sub came this morning. It's frustrating because then I can't do authentic assessment on what they are learning today. *sigh* I'll try and interview them in small groups tomorrow to figure out what they learned.
It was bound to happen though. A friend of mine came here after a trip (chance) not feeling well, then the next day a student left to go home early cause he had thrown up in the bathroom, the next day a different student is absent (he was today as well), and today, another student went home crying cause she felt sick (says she feels like she ate too much breakfast, really cute :) ).
I want to go to the doctor, we finally got the medical insurance cards todsy, but not sure if i can use it yet, I hope so so I can just go and fix this. I hate hate hate being sick. It's ridiculous, I don't cry when I recognize that I'm sick. But when I tell people that I'm sick, I'mr eady to bawl my eyes out. I have NO idea why, there's no reason for it.
Other than that, teaching is awesome. I tried to copy off of madamemama doing a DITL, but I realized how boring it was when I couldn't post pictures of the kids in the classroom, just way to many risks there with parent trust and all that jazz. However, they are so cute, I wish you guys could see them. :) I love them to death. I have quite a good classroom, no bad behavior problems. Just one student who has a hard time sitting still (I need to find better ways to engage him, but haven't quite found that medium yet), and a few really chatty ones. The chatty ones may be due to the fact that I changed the seating chart on monday.
On Open House night (two days before school started), I allowed the students to sit where they wanted to. I warned them that following Friday I would be changing their desks. This was mostly due to the fact that somehow all the behavior ones ended up sitting next to each other, same goes for the best friends. But they seem to be coping well with the change, and it's nice. Just have to remind them to be quiet and raise their hands sometimes (especially in my case since I can't hear that well).
I just love it. Maybe I'll post pictures of my classroom eventually, I dunno, it'll depend on ifanyone is actually interested in seeing boring pictures of a classroom with no students in it.
Oh, one thing is way cute. I have a class plant (no pets, way too many allergies going on, the third grade teacher had to end up selling the rabbit he had just bought). On open house night, the students each picked a name and put it into a bucket. I picked out the most common names and they voted on it. We had started out with about 12 names. The last three were "Spike," "Green Blossom," and "Spongebob." Spongebob won by far. It's funny when I have a parent or fellow coworker in the classroom and they hear me say "Joshua, would you please water spongebob today?" They always smile and chuckle a little. :)
Ok, Time to get back to resting for tomorrow, there is no way that I can skip tomorrow since I have nothing planned out for the class tomorrow. I'm gonna have to suck it up and just go in. I'll definitely be needing to use the class microphone as I have a sore throat, I've had fevers since yesterday afternoon, chills like crazy, and I was sweating a lot last night. My legs are killing me, so I'm sitting down a lot right now. Or more accurately, lying down at home, sitting in class. I just hope I get fully recovered over the weekend. The kids are very excited about Labor Day weekend vacation and I can't wait to hear the different things they did. :) I love 'em!
It was bound to happen though. A friend of mine came here after a trip (chance) not feeling well, then the next day a student left to go home early cause he had thrown up in the bathroom, the next day a different student is absent (he was today as well), and today, another student went home crying cause she felt sick (says she feels like she ate too much breakfast, really cute :) ).
I want to go to the doctor, we finally got the medical insurance cards todsy, but not sure if i can use it yet, I hope so so I can just go and fix this. I hate hate hate being sick. It's ridiculous, I don't cry when I recognize that I'm sick. But when I tell people that I'm sick, I'mr eady to bawl my eyes out. I have NO idea why, there's no reason for it.
Other than that, teaching is awesome. I tried to copy off of madamemama doing a DITL, but I realized how boring it was when I couldn't post pictures of the kids in the classroom, just way to many risks there with parent trust and all that jazz. However, they are so cute, I wish you guys could see them. :) I love them to death. I have quite a good classroom, no bad behavior problems. Just one student who has a hard time sitting still (I need to find better ways to engage him, but haven't quite found that medium yet), and a few really chatty ones. The chatty ones may be due to the fact that I changed the seating chart on monday.
On Open House night (two days before school started), I allowed the students to sit where they wanted to. I warned them that following Friday I would be changing their desks. This was mostly due to the fact that somehow all the behavior ones ended up sitting next to each other, same goes for the best friends. But they seem to be coping well with the change, and it's nice. Just have to remind them to be quiet and raise their hands sometimes (especially in my case since I can't hear that well).
I just love it. Maybe I'll post pictures of my classroom eventually, I dunno, it'll depend on ifanyone is actually interested in seeing boring pictures of a classroom with no students in it.
Oh, one thing is way cute. I have a class plant (no pets, way too many allergies going on, the third grade teacher had to end up selling the rabbit he had just bought). On open house night, the students each picked a name and put it into a bucket. I picked out the most common names and they voted on it. We had started out with about 12 names. The last three were "Spike," "Green Blossom," and "Spongebob." Spongebob won by far. It's funny when I have a parent or fellow coworker in the classroom and they hear me say "Joshua, would you please water spongebob today?" They always smile and chuckle a little. :)
Ok, Time to get back to resting for tomorrow, there is no way that I can skip tomorrow since I have nothing planned out for the class tomorrow. I'm gonna have to suck it up and just go in. I'll definitely be needing to use the class microphone as I have a sore throat, I've had fevers since yesterday afternoon, chills like crazy, and I was sweating a lot last night. My legs are killing me, so I'm sitting down a lot right now. Or more accurately, lying down at home, sitting in class. I just hope I get fully recovered over the weekend. The kids are very excited about Labor Day weekend vacation and I can't wait to hear the different things they did. :) I love 'em!
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Update again
long time no updates for me eh?
Life has been crazy busy lately, and there just seems to be no time to do everything right now.
California was awesome, went to disneyland, three different beaches, the san diego temple and the oakland temple (wow, sandiego is by far my favorite). Had some great food, one bad hotel two good ones, slept great, was awesome to see Bryan again, missed him so much. Good to see family (Bryan's parents and dogs).
very brief summary I know, but that's basically what we did without details of everything, in which really the details would be "we had a blast together, so much fun and so good" :)
No pictures cause I was too busy enjoying my time with bryan and didn't care much about them this time. :)
we've been apartment hunting lately, not fun. Just depressing knowing what we can't have and what we can have (old places that are quite run down? bleh). But really, we don't have a choice :) We have to move in august, so we need to find a place soon. We looked at 8 different places last Saturday, looking at 2 maybe 3 more this Saturday. I'm tired of it to be honest as it gets stressul.
I'm working full time right now, I work 9-10 hours a day right now, so by the time I get home, I despise the computer. I hate it so much that I won't even let Bryan on, yeah, that bad. :)
I'm getting nervous for my internship. Starts in august, I have meetings in August to attend. I still need to set up my classroom and get the bulletin board and theme set up. I need to get supplies, etc, etc. That's not helping with my stress :)
Got to go jet skiing for a work party one day. Major fun, i think bryan is addicted to it, even though he's only been once. :)
My newphew got his baby blessing. It's so weird to know that I actually have a nephew. I love seeing Bryan with him, though I think it's making Bryan baby hungry. :) Not for a couple of years! :)
That's really all that's new....kidna sad, it's jsut been busy with work and just simply trying to wind down at the end of the day and be with bryan. I'm just glad he's home, everything is easier to deal with with him around.
Life has been crazy busy lately, and there just seems to be no time to do everything right now.
California was awesome, went to disneyland, three different beaches, the san diego temple and the oakland temple (wow, sandiego is by far my favorite). Had some great food, one bad hotel two good ones, slept great, was awesome to see Bryan again, missed him so much. Good to see family (Bryan's parents and dogs).
very brief summary I know, but that's basically what we did without details of everything, in which really the details would be "we had a blast together, so much fun and so good" :)
No pictures cause I was too busy enjoying my time with bryan and didn't care much about them this time. :)
we've been apartment hunting lately, not fun. Just depressing knowing what we can't have and what we can have (old places that are quite run down? bleh). But really, we don't have a choice :) We have to move in august, so we need to find a place soon. We looked at 8 different places last Saturday, looking at 2 maybe 3 more this Saturday. I'm tired of it to be honest as it gets stressul.
I'm working full time right now, I work 9-10 hours a day right now, so by the time I get home, I despise the computer. I hate it so much that I won't even let Bryan on, yeah, that bad. :)
I'm getting nervous for my internship. Starts in august, I have meetings in August to attend. I still need to set up my classroom and get the bulletin board and theme set up. I need to get supplies, etc, etc. That's not helping with my stress :)
Got to go jet skiing for a work party one day. Major fun, i think bryan is addicted to it, even though he's only been once. :)
My newphew got his baby blessing. It's so weird to know that I actually have a nephew. I love seeing Bryan with him, though I think it's making Bryan baby hungry. :) Not for a couple of years! :)
That's really all that's new....kidna sad, it's jsut been busy with work and just simply trying to wind down at the end of the day and be with bryan. I'm just glad he's home, everything is easier to deal with with him around.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Real update
since i've made an update that wasn;t whining about missing Bryan :)
Things are going well, Today is my last day student teaching (on a lunch break right now), and I'm not really student teaching all that much since it's a make up day for me since I missed a day. Just helping the teachers and observing the teachers doing testing all day today...that's about it. Then I'm done with this student teaching! Crazy! I'm very excited that I've made it through this far.
My exit itnerview for my student teaching was last Friday. I got a lot more praises than I had expected and was very flattered. Both my mentor and supervisor had to write a letter of recommendation, and both highly recommended me as a teacher. I was so excited about it, it was much more than I had expected. The supervisor gives an average score from all of our observations. There are 35 things/standards that we are scored against on a scale from 0-3. My average was a 2.71 (after 5 observations), and apparantley that's one of the highest scores she's ever given.*Puts a gold star on her forehead* I'm a super star! :)
I already miss the kids, a lot. I'm glad I'm done with homework and lesson plans, but I do miss the kids. I especially miss the kids that I did the majority of my lead teaching with (in other words, took over the whole class while the actual teacher just sat in the back or ran errands). I fell in love with the class a lot more than I thought I had. I had to say goodbye to them on Friday, and it made me cry! Highly unexpected as I don't cry that easily when it comes to goodbyes, especially in front of people. A few asked if I could stay forever, that just made my heart melt :)
Overall, it was a great experience. I had a few downs where kids asked why I had a funny voice (I'm deaf, and thus, apparently my voice shows it at least a little bit, which I never knew), so that REALLY shot my pride down. Though one girl was cute about it and made me laugh. She just out of the blue said to me "You know, your voice may be funny, but you make up for it 'cause you're really pretty!" I got a compliment about my clothes, hair or the way I smell almost every day. Very cute, they made up for the funny voice comments ;)
I can't believe I technically only have two classes left...well...really...just one. They will be for my internship and count towards my fall semester credits. 6 credits just for having an internship, the other 6 is for my other half of the student teaching required for an Early Childhood Education License. So I hav ehomework to do during the fall semester (my teacher work sample which I do NOT look forward to, EVERYONE hates them, even the people who have to score them. The state requires proof that we know what we're doing, thus, our teacher work sample is a necessity...bleh). Then I'm done. Winter semester is when I just finish up my testing, and I'll graduate and walk in April. Insane! I then hope to go to grad school to get a masters specializing in early childhood education for hearing impaired students. We'll see how that goes.
I get to see Bryan in two days, SUPER excited for it! :) I've gotten all nice and tan (you thought I would let Bryan be all tan and I show up all whitey...HAH, no way!), got my nails done this past Friday as part of a girls night out. (My sister has a bad habit of biting her nails, this is her last thing she can try to help stop biting nails since these are virtually unbitable). Both of my sisters got them done as well, they even got a little flower design on the ring fingers. Way cute, and they BOTH love it, I was surprised the nail biter loves them. I love mine, and yet, I hate mine. They just don't work well with typing on the computer or playing the piano :)
I'm getting my hair done tomorrow after I get the keys to the school and my classroom (giggles with excitement here). MY VERY OWN CLASSROOM! I am so excited, I'll be able to go in and out as I please to set up and decorate my classroom before school starts. Ok, back to hair, I'm trimming it mostly and going to try to add A LOT more layers as well as highlights to my hair. Yeah, I'm gonna look good! Tan, nails done, lost 9 lbs (was aiming for 10, but 9 is good too), painted my toenails pink, hair done tomorrw. I'm feeling quite girly and love it :)
Going to CA on wed, we're going to disneyland since we have all day passes for a wedding present from my brother. I know we're going to try to go to the San Diego temple, and visit with the family that Bryan worked for, they're taking us out to dinner as a thank you. I also know we're going to go visit his parents, but other than that, Bryan hasn't decided yet, and I don't care, I just am so gld that I get to see him :)
Ah, 12:30 my teacher should be back any minute now to do more testing....and this is an ultra long post :) I doubt any of you will make it all the way through reading every word :)
Hope everyone is doing well and is happy!
Things are going well, Today is my last day student teaching (on a lunch break right now), and I'm not really student teaching all that much since it's a make up day for me since I missed a day. Just helping the teachers and observing the teachers doing testing all day today...that's about it. Then I'm done with this student teaching! Crazy! I'm very excited that I've made it through this far.
My exit itnerview for my student teaching was last Friday. I got a lot more praises than I had expected and was very flattered. Both my mentor and supervisor had to write a letter of recommendation, and both highly recommended me as a teacher. I was so excited about it, it was much more than I had expected. The supervisor gives an average score from all of our observations. There are 35 things/standards that we are scored against on a scale from 0-3. My average was a 2.71 (after 5 observations), and apparantley that's one of the highest scores she's ever given.*Puts a gold star on her forehead* I'm a super star! :)
I already miss the kids, a lot. I'm glad I'm done with homework and lesson plans, but I do miss the kids. I especially miss the kids that I did the majority of my lead teaching with (in other words, took over the whole class while the actual teacher just sat in the back or ran errands). I fell in love with the class a lot more than I thought I had. I had to say goodbye to them on Friday, and it made me cry! Highly unexpected as I don't cry that easily when it comes to goodbyes, especially in front of people. A few asked if I could stay forever, that just made my heart melt :)
Overall, it was a great experience. I had a few downs where kids asked why I had a funny voice (I'm deaf, and thus, apparently my voice shows it at least a little bit, which I never knew), so that REALLY shot my pride down. Though one girl was cute about it and made me laugh. She just out of the blue said to me "You know, your voice may be funny, but you make up for it 'cause you're really pretty!" I got a compliment about my clothes, hair or the way I smell almost every day. Very cute, they made up for the funny voice comments ;)
I can't believe I technically only have two classes left...well...really...just one. They will be for my internship and count towards my fall semester credits. 6 credits just for having an internship, the other 6 is for my other half of the student teaching required for an Early Childhood Education License. So I hav ehomework to do during the fall semester (my teacher work sample which I do NOT look forward to, EVERYONE hates them, even the people who have to score them. The state requires proof that we know what we're doing, thus, our teacher work sample is a necessity...bleh). Then I'm done. Winter semester is when I just finish up my testing, and I'll graduate and walk in April. Insane! I then hope to go to grad school to get a masters specializing in early childhood education for hearing impaired students. We'll see how that goes.
I get to see Bryan in two days, SUPER excited for it! :) I've gotten all nice and tan (you thought I would let Bryan be all tan and I show up all whitey...HAH, no way!), got my nails done this past Friday as part of a girls night out. (My sister has a bad habit of biting her nails, this is her last thing she can try to help stop biting nails since these are virtually unbitable). Both of my sisters got them done as well, they even got a little flower design on the ring fingers. Way cute, and they BOTH love it, I was surprised the nail biter loves them. I love mine, and yet, I hate mine. They just don't work well with typing on the computer or playing the piano :)
I'm getting my hair done tomorrow after I get the keys to the school and my classroom (giggles with excitement here). MY VERY OWN CLASSROOM! I am so excited, I'll be able to go in and out as I please to set up and decorate my classroom before school starts. Ok, back to hair, I'm trimming it mostly and going to try to add A LOT more layers as well as highlights to my hair. Yeah, I'm gonna look good! Tan, nails done, lost 9 lbs (was aiming for 10, but 9 is good too), painted my toenails pink, hair done tomorrw. I'm feeling quite girly and love it :)
Going to CA on wed, we're going to disneyland since we have all day passes for a wedding present from my brother. I know we're going to try to go to the San Diego temple, and visit with the family that Bryan worked for, they're taking us out to dinner as a thank you. I also know we're going to go visit his parents, but other than that, Bryan hasn't decided yet, and I don't care, I just am so gld that I get to see him :)
Ah, 12:30 my teacher should be back any minute now to do more testing....and this is an ultra long post :) I doubt any of you will make it all the way through reading every word :)
Hope everyone is doing well and is happy!
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