Teacher headache

Hope and Pray that you NEVER have a REAL fire in your school. 

We had one today, allbeit a little one (Internal fire int he wall caused by the electrical stuff from the socket). Waiting out there for over an hour for everything to be fixed and taken care of. Trying to come up with ideas out of your butt to keep the kids entertained so that they don't drive every single soul around you crazy. All at the same time while trying to keep your sanity. Having five kids who suddenly have to go pee really bad when 10 minutes ago, they just did go pee (stupid fear feeling that triggers the need to wet your pants, which none of my kids did, thankfully). Having a billion questions that you can't answer about fires, and suddenly feeling retarded cause your own father is a firefighter and the kids remind you of that and ask why you don't know. 

And still have one hour of school left. Thank goodness it was just the late birds hour....but still....*head swims*

One year!

Happy one year anniversary to me and Bryan! YAY!

We're not doing our BIG celebration until next when I have THursday and Friday off, but we're still going to go and taste the wedding cake and go out to a nice dinner. :) I'm excited! YAY! :)

Sick Bryan

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

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 :)

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!