Busy and Trying to Remember!!

Well these past 2 weeks have been crazy busy...I have been teaching most of the day at school and it has been crazy!! I've been getting lesson plan after lesson plan done. Aside from that I've had a crazy personal life on top of all of that..All I can say it I am praying to God that things go back to normal. School has been good...busy but good...the kids are getting more and more used to me being in charge and thats really all I can ask for. What I've had the hardest trouble with lately is remembering to make copies of things or even where I put things. I lost my very first paper this past week and I thought I was gonna go crazy. I also signed up for one more Bilingual Exam and lets just say the prices went way way up compared to last year! I am currently working on next weeks UNIT PLANS and then on lessons for the last week of my first placement. This coming Thursday I have my last observation for this time period....lets hope it goes well. For those that read this please pray for us that things can get back to normal and that school continues going well for me!!

1st teaching (week 3) and being windblown!!

I taught this week for the first time alone. We did calendar math and spelling/phonics!! It was certainly an interesting experience especially the days I did in Spanish!! If you know kids since it rained pretty much all week they need some type of movement to express their energy! I had to modify my lesson plans so that they were active, the first day we played duck duck goose, the 2nd day we play "El Salto Ferzo" where we pretended to be Leaping Lions!! Each lesson was either over spelling or the syllables we learned this past week. Thursday I gave my first spelling test and the results were astonishing!! Friday I gave the sight word/ syllables test and I was a bit more pleased wth those results! This next week I will start teaching the entire Language Arts block and Monday I have my first observation from my McMurry Supervisor!!! YIKES!! But on a really good note McMurry decided that I could stay in my first placement until the end of the semester...even though I won't be getting paid like I wanted as the sub for my class I will however get the experience of managing the class alone!! We got to go to the fair yesterday and so that my niece would ride this one ride I had to ride it with her and her friend...yeah how I got suckered into riding alone I don't know!! We rode the ORBITER which rotates you in the air...yeah lets just say I held on for dear life so that I wouldn't slide around in my chair!