Again, I win the award for best slacker on keeping this updated! My apologies! I have been in a slump on what to write about though. I leave school every day with the same feelings, I am exhausted yet I leave very happy every day because of how much I enjoy my students and what I am doing!! I am enjoying what I am teaching, and my students just make my heart smile! I am daily writing things down that they are saying! The best is when they say things and don't understand how funny they are! Today I compliment one of my students on his shirt (it had a very large orangutang on it), I said "I really like your shirt ______!!"(fill in any name!) He looks at me and says, very seriously keep in mind, "Yeah, thank you, its a cute monkey huh?" :-) It really is the easiest things that make me happy, but they are all just so cute and such good students!
I did get to do something today that I've never done before! I had a small group of four students assigned to me and I administered the first two parts of the reading MCA test. I went into another teachers classroom this morning thinking I was just going to help her keep an eye on her students, and she surprised me and told me I was taking four of her students to the computer lab to work! At first it caught me off guard, but I knew they give teachers a script of what to say to students so I did get my composure back quickly! I did have a nervous goof up at first :-/ I just handed the students the packets without looking to see that their names were on them! Oops! I did catch it though right away and switched around the test booklets to the right students! Most teachers say how boring it is, and although it wasn't the most stimulating thing in the world, it was still exciting because it was new for me. I was put to the test and was trusted enough to be given my own group of students. I am very excited that I can add one more thing to my resume :-)
I was having dinner with a good friend last week and I was telling her all about my placement now and cute all my kids are and she stopped me and asked me, "Do you know how I know this is exactly what you should be doing?" I said, "Well, no". And she replied, "Because watching you talk about your students, you are just glowing". I was slightly embarrassed because I realized that I was probably rambling about every details of my past 6 weeks. Then I realized that its a good thing I'm glowing! It means I am enjoying what I am doing! This is exactly the setting I need to be in some day! I am learning about how I want to do things and what I don't want to do things.
I guess the story is still the same! I am in LOVE with my classroom right now and I am VERY sad that I have 10 days left! Stay posted for the things I have learned in this classroom ;-) I promise you, it will be different than my last placement!
xoxo
