My friend's class all but demanded I come to their New Years Eve party this afternoon. It's a NYE party because not everyone celebrates Christmas. Plus when the bell rings at the end of the day they get to do a count down and use noise makers. :D ( Read more... )

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Yeah, me either ( Read more... )

I started running in January and I was running on the treadmill. It was hard at first. I started at 20 minutes and it was a really hard 20 minutes. But I got better endurance and got up to 30 mins. I wheeze like crazy when I run but I use my inhaler before running. I don't know how people can carry on conversations while they run. I can talk but ( Read more... )

My last 9 days of student teaching were fun. Sad, but fun. I observed almost all the other teachers and in doing so, realized how similar my teaching style and philosophy are to my CT's. And it turns out that while I was out of the room, they were all busy with more than just school work ( Read more... )

So I haven't updated in almost a month ( Read more... )

Monday I taught the entire day myself. And my CT spent most of the day in the teacher's lounge reading up on math and math workshop. It was pretty interesting to be by myself. Most of the kids were good but I had some talkers talk more because he wasn't there. I talked with them and my CT talked with them Tuesday and it seems to be better ( Read more... )

We had a snow day on Friday. The second snow day since I've been student teaching. I did not want either ( Read more... )

Wow ( Read more... )

The first full week of student teaching is almost over. Its going well so far. We came back to school last Thursday but last Thursday and Friday were crazy and not normal. So far I'm doing Scholastic News and the read aloud. Next week I add on Paragraph Editing and spelling. I was pretty anxious last week but once my cooperating teacher and I went ( Read more... )