I am so excitedly exhausted! I am now into the third week of student teaching which means I am still observing and slowly taking over 5th period. This past week the students and I have been building our relationships. I have been getting to know them and they have been getting to know me. Therefore they now have more confidence in asking me questions. Sometimes these questions can be really personal, but for the most part they are just hilarious.
Monday my cooperating teacher got sick so I had to take over the entire day of teaching! It was quite an experience and I fully enjoyed every moment. I think the adrenaline took over for the most part! My first hour was really quite so we started talking about the weekend and allowing them to ask me questions to get know me better. So one girl, who reminds me of Sarah Piersky, sheepishly raised her hand and asked, "Why did you want to be a teacher?" To which I replied cause I wanted to hang out with cool kids and help students learn there might be better ways to live. " Without missing a beat this young girl looked up at me with bewilderment in her eyes and said, "Ms. you know that you have to get up early to be a teacher? Why would you do that to yourself?" This is a great question.... AND my answer is..... I DON'T KNOW!!!
Not only do the students question my career choice but they question.... MY FASHION! Today one of the "popular" girls beckoned me over to her and her little groupies. She quickly asked me "Why did you wear purple two days in a row. I mean you look really good today but..." Heck whats wrong with purple? What did I take from this?....A 7th grade girl thinks that I look good! YES VICTORY IS MINE!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
ensalada de papa
So I'm into my second week now and I am already starting to form connections with students. While making these connections I am gaining a lot of fun stories...
Story 1: The students are expected to come into the classroom and start journal questions that are on the board. Sound familiar? The question today was asking the student to predict if the Uni tied States population is the same or different than the world's population. This student replied there would be more Americans because Americans live in America. Just thought you should all know that!
Story 2: This particular student is trying to be "too cool for school!" I have become very fond of this kid however he is getting in trouble already in other classes due to outburst and bullying. Sad day :( So the other day this kid was bragging to the other kids about how much money he has and flashing lots of money to the other kids. Today he had folded up the money into rings which he wore on his fingers and proceeded to walk down the hall saying...."I got the bank on my fingers." Who is this kid? Aww but still love this kid!
Story 3: First period is slowly becoming one of my favorite classes, but my favorite part of the morning is what has become, Spanish word of the day. One of the students have decided that he wants to learn Spanish so we have been adding one word everyday which he then writes the word down. One of these words is"C" which is "Si". My favorite word however is "Ensalada de papa" which is potato salad. Yet for us we decided that this just sounds like a pimp name! Ensalada de papa!
More stories to come!
Story 1: The students are expected to come into the classroom and start journal questions that are on the board. Sound familiar? The question today was asking the student to predict if the Uni tied States population is the same or different than the world's population. This student replied there would be more Americans because Americans live in America. Just thought you should all know that!
Story 2: This particular student is trying to be "too cool for school!" I have become very fond of this kid however he is getting in trouble already in other classes due to outburst and bullying. Sad day :( So the other day this kid was bragging to the other kids about how much money he has and flashing lots of money to the other kids. Today he had folded up the money into rings which he wore on his fingers and proceeded to walk down the hall saying...."I got the bank on my fingers." Who is this kid? Aww but still love this kid!
Story 3: First period is slowly becoming one of my favorite classes, but my favorite part of the morning is what has become, Spanish word of the day. One of the students have decided that he wants to learn Spanish so we have been adding one word everyday which he then writes the word down. One of these words is"C" which is "Si". My favorite word however is "Ensalada de papa" which is potato salad. Yet for us we decided that this just sounds like a pimp name! Ensalada de papa!
More stories to come!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Everything has changed
I am now several days into the start of my student teaching semester, and already it is quite an experience. Everything is new! Everything has changed! It has been really hard for me to completely switch from my old life, which was only last week when I lived in Arvada. For the last few days I have spent most of my time missing all my friends and all the wonderful students in Arvada. Yet as much as I miss the students, I realized that I just can't wait to meet the new kids that will consume my life till December. I realized how much I miss having kids in my life when I started coaching volleyball on Monday.
I have been coaching volleyball for 3 days now, and I am already falling in love with these new little girls... and yes they are little!!!! I had one girl today all upset because she was worried about making the team. Oh how cute, she reminds so much of myself at that age. I reassured her that she is completely fine, but hope she continues to be a leader. I am really excited for these girls...p.s. I have two that can jump serve!!!! haha 6th graders who can jump serve! Oh the joy!
I also cannot wait till I actually have kids in the classroom. I am just really anxious and getting really tired of looking at old CSAP scores or sitting in meetings. I don't think I am alone. For example the Math teacher on my team in each of our meetings has either busted out a whoopie cushion, a tiger mask, or throwing a ball around. I think he will be a great influence on me... Oh and he also giggles with me when anyone says "Duty". My cooperating teacher is not impressed with bathroom humor. What am going to do?
The countdown is on to meet the new kids!
I have been coaching volleyball for 3 days now, and I am already falling in love with these new little girls... and yes they are little!!!! I had one girl today all upset because she was worried about making the team. Oh how cute, she reminds so much of myself at that age. I reassured her that she is completely fine, but hope she continues to be a leader. I am really excited for these girls...p.s. I have two that can jump serve!!!! haha 6th graders who can jump serve! Oh the joy!
I also cannot wait till I actually have kids in the classroom. I am just really anxious and getting really tired of looking at old CSAP scores or sitting in meetings. I don't think I am alone. For example the Math teacher on my team in each of our meetings has either busted out a whoopie cushion, a tiger mask, or throwing a ball around. I think he will be a great influence on me... Oh and he also giggles with me when anyone says "Duty". My cooperating teacher is not impressed with bathroom humor. What am going to do?
The countdown is on to meet the new kids!
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