*school is getting ready to go into the 4th week--holy cow, 4weeks of school already! i have progress reports to start filling out-they go out a week from wednesday, we have our first "short" week next week thanks to Labor day, we have already taken our school pictures-boy did i look like crap! we had our first "fun friday" last friday and i had the kids who didn't earn the reward and that was an experience. i have had my first parent conference with the parent, mrs. c, and the student-that was interesting, i have my first "big girl" observation scheduled for the start of my tenure...i have had my first big huge cry in front of the instructional coach while my students were taking a bathroom break, i have had my first "this is what you should be doing" talk from the assistant principal-some of which i don't believe will work with my kids, but i will take the advice...i have given 3 reading tests, 2 spelling tests, learned the art of letting papers stack up and then having to grade 2 weeks worth of work, school is such a new experience, it still hasn't really hit me that these are MY KIDS, these kids will take TCAPS and their scores will reflect my teaching, these kids are my responsibility from 8 am-3 pm, these kids are influenced by me and i am influenced by each of them. i am learning that kids rely to much on technology today and that they are still "testing the waters" to see how much they can get away with in my classroom, i have cried and cried and cried, i have gone to bed before 7pm just because i had a HORRIBLE day at school, i have had a kid just walk out of my room and completely ignore me, i have watched another student do the same thing to mrs. c, i have watched a male teacher try to tell me that a baby garden snake was a baby cotton mouth-he was wrong, i have begged for agenda books and threatened to take a box of them from the hallway just so my kids can finally have the stability of an agenda book, i have learned all about intervention folders and teaching students of all different abilities in one classroom, i have learned that some students-even thought they are in the 6th grade-still think they need someone to spoon feed them everything and come behind them and fix their mistakes, i have learned that whoever designed the desks that my students have to sit in was not the smartest designer ever...i have learned sooo much and we still have so much to go, so many things to learn, so many more battles to fight, just so much more to go. please pray for me, the students, the school, the administration-everyone.
*i know that i have already posted about the wedding weekend, but i figured that i should add a few pictures from the weekend...let's see if i can make a collage of them and put up here...ok, i tried the collage and i have no idea how to do that so i will just post a few of the favorites...
*drew and i have a possible lead on a house...yes a house here in jackson. my uncle has a house that he built here several years ago and now he is not living there and is wanting to sell it or rent it or something to get it off of his hands and we are talking to him and our parents about this. we would love to get this house. granted we don't want to be in jackson forever, we would much rather be in a house than an apartment. plus with this house we would have 3 bedrooms, a really nice fenced in backyard, a nice garage, a fire place and just a house. yes it would be more responsibility and more work but it would be ours. we could paint, we could fix things that we want to fix and we wouldn't have to worry about the neighbors and everything. send up some prayers for this. if it does happen it won't happen until at least after the wedding and closer to the first of the year.
going back to lesson planning and my "kiddie" movie marathon that has included free willy and now high school musical...
"let all you do be done with love"
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