A possible snow day(?), a classroom management plan that involves not teaching, and yay for yoga!
Nothing terribly exciting to say other than i'm PRAYING for a snow day along with the rest of Indiana's teachers and students. The teachers at school attempted to declare tomorrow a snow day at about 12:45 this afternoon, but for some reason our principal wasn't so keen on that. I wonder why. Things at school seem to be going well. I think i figured out how to deal with my crazy class that won't ever stop talking long enough for me to teach. I gave them what they wanted. Me not teaching. On Monday, I totally rearranged me room so that no more than two students would be sitting next to each other. I put them in a new seating chart, which was met with grumbles and groans as always, and then passed out the work they had to accomplish during the class period. Then i announced, "Okay. You have your work. You can do it in any order you want as long as I have it by the end of the period. If you have a question, raise your hand and i'll come help you. Go..." And it worked! At least it worked better than anything else has seemed to work with that class so far this semester. So i think i'm going to continue it and hope that it continues to work.
I went to my last yoga class of the month last night. I was a little worried about doing yoga with other people because i don't think i'm very good at it, but when i talked to him last week, the instructor suggested that i move up to intermediate yoga, which i was totally psyched about. And then last night i was talking to him about shoulder stands, which i managed to master (as much as i expect myself to master them), and he told me that i was really flexible. So not only am i keeping up in class, i'm being told that i'm flexible and to move up to the next level of class. Yay! I just had to take a minute to brag, especially because when i move to the intermediate class next week i'll probably barely be keeping up. But it's fun and i'm liking it. So yay!
I went to my last yoga class of the month last night. I was a little worried about doing yoga with other people because i don't think i'm very good at it, but when i talked to him last week, the instructor suggested that i move up to intermediate yoga, which i was totally psyched about. And then last night i was talking to him about shoulder stands, which i managed to master (as much as i expect myself to master them), and he told me that i was really flexible. So not only am i keeping up in class, i'm being told that i'm flexible and to move up to the next level of class. Yay! I just had to take a minute to brag, especially because when i move to the intermediate class next week i'll probably barely be keeping up. But it's fun and i'm liking it. So yay!