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I am SO ready for Spring Break. It starts 9 days and I am counting the seconds. This week has been crazy and stressful. Aidan and Maddie were not very good on Monday or Wednesday and each of them got time outs on both days. Aidan got two time outs yesterday. Oy. My ACE kiddos weren't much better. They all seem to be vibrating even more than usual. Hopefully the weather will get nicer soon so we can kick them outside. The fresh air seems to calm them down a bit.
Teaching at Fouse is going really well. I sat down with Mrs. Dollenmayer today to map out what/when I will be teaching and when Dr. Chang will come observe. I will be teaching my first lesson next Thursday and it will be a Science lesson. It's on experiment that we did at ACE that I thought was super cool. There was a new student in the classroom at Fouse this morning: he is the sweetest little (well not little, he's almost as tall as I am...ha) boy but he's one of the "slower" ones. I don't anticipate having any problems with him at all. I worked with a couple of students on coins and money. Mrs. Dollenmayer has these cool coin manipulative that look like real coins, but they are plastic instead of metal. I had the students create monetary amounts, put the coins in order according to the amount of the coin, and then count out loud how much money they had. Some of the kids do much better working one on one with manipulatives than with those stupid dittos. They have to see and touch the problem in order to comprehend the concept.
WW wise, I'm doing pretty good. I've stayed within my points every day this week, have earned 8 AP's and haven't used many flex points. Yesterday I went to bed with 3 points still on my plate but I was so tired I ended up falling asleep around 8:30pm. Today I've eaten a lot of junk; Wendy's for lunch, and then it was co-worker's birthday at ACE and they had cupcakes. It was worth every single one of the four points. :) I have 6 left over and I'm planning on doing my Tae Bo tape so that will give me 4 more APs to work with.
Tomorrow I'm going to dinner with my ACE girls to celebrate Anna's (the co-worker's) birthday. We are going to Applebees so I'll probably have something on the WW menu there. I just have to be careful because it's Lent and I can't eat meat. Damn Catholicism. There are much worse things to go to Hell for than eating a damn steak on a Friday during March and April. I mean, really!
OK, I'm going to relax for an hour, do my workout, and start on homework. I've got to write a journal entry for MRDD tomorrow and do some ready for Principles. Oh, and write up my Science lesson plan to submit to Dr. Chang.
Teaching at Fouse is going really well. I sat down with Mrs. Dollenmayer today to map out what/when I will be teaching and when Dr. Chang will come observe. I will be teaching my first lesson next Thursday and it will be a Science lesson. It's on experiment that we did at ACE that I thought was super cool. There was a new student in the classroom at Fouse this morning: he is the sweetest little (well not little, he's almost as tall as I am...ha) boy but he's one of the "slower" ones. I don't anticipate having any problems with him at all. I worked with a couple of students on coins and money. Mrs. Dollenmayer has these cool coin manipulative that look like real coins, but they are plastic instead of metal. I had the students create monetary amounts, put the coins in order according to the amount of the coin, and then count out loud how much money they had. Some of the kids do much better working one on one with manipulatives than with those stupid dittos. They have to see and touch the problem in order to comprehend the concept.
WW wise, I'm doing pretty good. I've stayed within my points every day this week, have earned 8 AP's and haven't used many flex points. Yesterday I went to bed with 3 points still on my plate but I was so tired I ended up falling asleep around 8:30pm. Today I've eaten a lot of junk; Wendy's for lunch, and then it was co-worker's birthday at ACE and they had cupcakes. It was worth every single one of the four points. :) I have 6 left over and I'm planning on doing my Tae Bo tape so that will give me 4 more APs to work with.
Tomorrow I'm going to dinner with my ACE girls to celebrate Anna's (the co-worker's) birthday. We are going to Applebees so I'll probably have something on the WW menu there. I just have to be careful because it's Lent and I can't eat meat. Damn Catholicism. There are much worse things to go to Hell for than eating a damn steak on a Friday during March and April. I mean, really!
OK, I'm going to relax for an hour, do my workout, and start on homework. I've got to write a journal entry for MRDD tomorrow and do some ready for Principles. Oh, and write up my Science lesson plan to submit to Dr. Chang.