* I am going to be teaching 6th Grade next year at the same school I am at now. Which means, I will move up with a lot of the same kids. Sometimes that's exciting, most times that's exciting, except for the times when it isn't haha. Come on they are 5th Graders. Being 11 is hard. Being a teacher to 11 year olds is hard. Although after being in the upper grades I wouldn't want to be anywhere else! I was considering a 1st grade position and it freaked me out!!! Someone peeing on my floor gives me the eebie geebies (sp?)
*James is currently in Costa Rica with the soccer team. I am really not sure what to do. I ordered Cafe Rio online (during my lunch break) so I could pick it up on my way home. I watched 4 shows (while grading of course... when do I ever just watch a show/movie?): American Idol (x2), Greys, and Vampire Diaries.... and I don't really know what to do now! haha I better figure it out soon James doesn't come back to the states until July! (He'll be in Russia most of the time).
*I don't really mind being by myself. The only thing I don't want to do by myself is teach Sunday School. We teach the 17 year olds. You would think hey you're a teacher you should be better than James at that kind of stuff. The truth is I'm not. Church classes are strongly based on lecture. I am great at coming up with fun creative ways for them to remember, but lecture not so much. I have let the class go in the direction of James's strengths because that is the norm, but I think I am going to change it up. But that also means I need to prepare well if I want to do it differently and I am the only one in the teacher role.
* Sometimes I think I will be the last person I know to have a kid and I am okay with that. I love my 26 kids but I am really happy they go home at 3:30.
What would a blog post be without a picture? I taught my kids order of operations through hopscotch. See I am the creative one, not the lecturer!
i don't know...you may beat me to having kids at the rate we're going! haha. prob at least another year minimum for us with mitch's school and me working. sometimes I have a hard time thinking about it bc I compare myself to other people. but...it's okay to be different :)
ReplyDeleteNo worries, we're not planning on having kids for several more years. :) You and I can be Married MG's with NO kids together. ...some of the few. haha. :) Love you!
ReplyDeleteHaving kids is totally overrated. Talk about getting your floor peed on ...
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness though, babies are fun, but if I was teaching I would be a-ok putting that off. It means you get to put your emotional efforts into your class, and it sounds like (if you have been/are going to be) with them for 3 years (!) those kids probably need you and all the love you have to give.
I have heard that when teaching in trailers investing in space heaters/fans is a good idea.
And this is probably obvious for your summer school, but if you have Avengers themes you should probably do that one 'create your own superhero action figure' activity that we talked about at that one social studies conference ... I think I might have the template somewhere if you want it ...