Wednesday, September 30, 2009
One of the Joys of Teaching...
I received this drawing from one of my kiddos (among many others) today, and it just makes me laugh. This is me, with crazy purple hair, dancing in the orange flowers, under the pink stars (which is not only MY favorite color, but this particular student's as well!) Oh yeah, and she wrote "I like you" too :)
Monday, September 21, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Great Day!
Today was a fantastic day at school! I was only there for about 3 hours but I got to do a lot!
I tested a few kids on their sight words, helped Miss J fill out a behavior profile for a student, and then she asked me to take them from Music to the Library all by myself (not a hard thing, but not especially easy for a beginning teacher when you have 20 1st-graders!)
The kids did great, and then from there I had to bring them back to the classroom, got them settled down to read their books, read 2 books to them, got them ready for lunch, monitored their eating (again, not easy with 1st graders...it's like pulling teeth getting them to eat!!) and they did a WAY better job eating than they usually do! Then I had to get them all cleaned up and ready for recess, and they were ready so fast, I had to come up with a game to entertain them while we waited for the recess bell, which they had fun with.
Throughout all of this, Miss J just sat back at her desk working on her stuff and let me do everything! It was a blast! Of course there were a few kids who just didn't want to listen to me...seeing as I'm only there 2-3 days a week now, they kind of forget that I'm still one of their teachers and that they, ya know, still have to listen to me and do what I say :p But they did pretty good. And Miss J decided that I did such a good job, we're gonna keep up that routine every Friday now! Should be fun! :)
And I found out that I might be able to sub for her already on the 21st! Woo hoo! She'll be gone the 16th and she already has another sub lined up for that day, but asked me to be there that whole day to help her out cause I know what our routine is and will have a better idea of what needs to be done!
I tested a few kids on their sight words, helped Miss J fill out a behavior profile for a student, and then she asked me to take them from Music to the Library all by myself (not a hard thing, but not especially easy for a beginning teacher when you have 20 1st-graders!)
The kids did great, and then from there I had to bring them back to the classroom, got them settled down to read their books, read 2 books to them, got them ready for lunch, monitored their eating (again, not easy with 1st graders...it's like pulling teeth getting them to eat!!) and they did a WAY better job eating than they usually do! Then I had to get them all cleaned up and ready for recess, and they were ready so fast, I had to come up with a game to entertain them while we waited for the recess bell, which they had fun with.
Throughout all of this, Miss J just sat back at her desk working on her stuff and let me do everything! It was a blast! Of course there were a few kids who just didn't want to listen to me...seeing as I'm only there 2-3 days a week now, they kind of forget that I'm still one of their teachers and that they, ya know, still have to listen to me and do what I say :p But they did pretty good. And Miss J decided that I did such a good job, we're gonna keep up that routine every Friday now! Should be fun! :)
And I found out that I might be able to sub for her already on the 21st! Woo hoo! She'll be gone the 16th and she already has another sub lined up for that day, but asked me to be there that whole day to help her out cause I know what our routine is and will have a better idea of what needs to be done!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Quote of the Week!
I did not hear this quote directly as it was aimed at Miss J, my mentor teacher, but it cracks me up nonetheless!
Now to give you a little background on Miss J, she was Mrs. E when I first met her, but she got divorced over the summer and went back to her maiden name, so she is now known as Miss J.
So, Miss J was talking to a 2nd-grader who was one of her students last year, and he said to her "I heard you got a horse and changed your name over the summer!"
She was confused for a moment and said, "Well, I changed my name, but I didn't get a horse!"
He said, "Yes you did! You told me you got a horse and changed your name!"
She finally realized she had told him she got a DIVORCE and he had been thinking she had said a HORSE!
We all had a good laugh about it in the Teachers Lounge at lunch and now we ask her every morning how her horse is doing :)
Now to give you a little background on Miss J, she was Mrs. E when I first met her, but she got divorced over the summer and went back to her maiden name, so she is now known as Miss J.
So, Miss J was talking to a 2nd-grader who was one of her students last year, and he said to her "I heard you got a horse and changed your name over the summer!"
She was confused for a moment and said, "Well, I changed my name, but I didn't get a horse!"
He said, "Yes you did! You told me you got a horse and changed your name!"
She finally realized she had told him she got a DIVORCE and he had been thinking she had said a HORSE!
We all had a good laugh about it in the Teachers Lounge at lunch and now we ask her every morning how her horse is doing :)
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