Pros and Cons of life in the classroom

I'm loving being in the classroom but just like anything else there are pros and cons. These can be quickly summed up in two short stories. We'll start with the pros first. This week we've been learning about community helpers.We had a blast going to the Fire Station and the Post Office. At the Fire Station we got to turn on the fire hose and spray the trees. At the Post Office I got the coolest Disney stamps in the whole wide world! I'm kinda obsessed, It has characters from Up, Cars, Walle, and Rattatue. (They're forever stamps too) Anyway back to my quick story. Today my teacher asked "Who wants to be a fire fighter when you grow up?" Then she asked "Who wants to be a teacher?" After she asked this, one of our cute shy girls raised her hand, turned around and looked at me to smile. She also talked my ear off today while walking to our field trip destinations. (she doesn't normally do that) Best feeling in the world, I totally felt like i'd made a difference in at least her life. Con- Yuck! One of the little boys in our afternoon kindergarten is defiant . He's a cute, cute kid when he wants to be, but by the end of the day he gets a little snobby. Today while sitting at circle Mr. Defiant slapped the kid sitting next to him. He hadn't done anything wrong but the kid who got slapped exclaimed "Hey!" and then in retaliation slapped him back. They each then had to go sit at a table by themselves until they felt they could be appropriate at the rug. Oh two more stories these ones are more fun than the last one. Ok, this story is about the same two boy as the story above. We'll call them Mr. Defiant and Mr. ADD. A little on Mr ADD first off, he's a cute kid but he struggles paying attention and following directions. This isn't because he is ADD but because he doesn't have proper basic knowledge for Kindergarten yet. Anyway today on our field trip Mr. ADD got to hold my hand for a while when walking because he wasn't staying with our class. Mr. Defiant started having the same problem after getting mad at something so he got to hold my hand as well. Mr. Defiant then promised to act appropriately so he ran ahead to catch up with the class (we were a little bit behind from needing to take a break and talk) He then turned to look back and walked on the grass for a little bit (something he wasn't supposed to do). Mr. ADD said "uh oh, he's not doing what you told him to do, I think you need to hold his hand again because he's being a brat." I had to laugh at that even though I probably shouldn't have. I could totally see what Mr. ADD has been previously been told. Ok last story for the night. Hopefully these make sense when you read them cuz I'm kinda tired. On Tuesday we wrote a letter to ourselves. In the letter we included questions we had about the Post Office. One of the questions was "Where do you keep the stamps." As I was writing down the question I said the words aloud. I got to the "Where do you keep..." I got interpreted by "The Commandments!" Totally another laughable moment. Oh sometimes it's so hard to giggle quietly! Well good night it's well past bed time. Oly

School is now my life.

Right now school is my life, but in a way I guess that means that teaching is my life. At least it's something I enjoy. Any way that means blogging hasn't been a top priority but this week I have an excuse to blog. Thank goodness for technology classes. I've also been challanged to find educational blogs that intrest me. I started by looking at the state of Utah blog http://utahedu.blogspot.com/ and serched until I found my new absolute favorite blog! Teaching Blog Addict /http://www.teachingblogaddict.com/ It's eye appealing and has great ideas for fun activities and worksheets and references tons of other blogs. All in all looking at it just makes me want to be a teacher even more. Another site I found that I think is pretty amazing is Mrs. Patton's Patch http://pattonspatch.blogspot.com/ This blog is fun. It shows cute things that Mrs. Patton has been doing in her classroom. I'm sure that the parents oh her students love to see what they are doing in class. Anyway I'm excited to see what fun ideas they have on their blog next and I promice I will catch up on my blog... someday. :)