Posted in History, Nurse's Office, Reflective Teaching, tagged education, journal, mentor teacher, practicum, reflection, student teaching, teaching on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
August 10, 1999
Today went really well. I did a lot of teaching. In the morning I worked with P while the others did spelling. It was hard to keep him on task.
It took me a minute to remember who this kid is. And now I realize I am thinking of another kid with the same [...]
Posted in Time Card, tagged education, summer, summer vacation, teaching, work on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here we go – my first week of Summer “Vacation”!
Monday: 6H 20 – six hours @school packing up my room, and 20 minutes making new labels for new book basket categories
Tuesday: none – my first real “day off”
Wednesday: 6H 30 at a curriculum writing workshop
Thursday: 6H at day two of the workshop
Friday: 2H 30 [...]
Posted in History, Reflective Teaching, tagged education, journal, mentor teacher, practicum, reflection, student teaching, teaching on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few times I have gone to empty out my student teaching binder, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. Last spring I had dragged it off the shelf again to look for the AIMS Space activities I knew we had done, but they weren’t there. (So I went download-happy at their website. [...]
Posted in Family Studies, Philosophy 101, Time Out!, tagged attention span, education, elementary school, following directions, insanity, kids, stupidity, teaching, weird, Weird Things Kids Do on June 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I needed photographic evidence to demonstrate the weirdness in this room this year.
It started with kneeling on the chairs. Then kids started squatting on them. I lost track of how many times a day I had to say, “How do you sit on a chair?
This is the new way to use a hanger. And then in [...]
Posted in Library, Lit Circle, Philosophy 101, Reflective Teaching, tagged education, professional development, reading, summer reading, teaching on June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve got quite a stack of books to read this summer.
After the year I’ve had, I need to find some answers about what makes these kids tick, and what I can do better next year to deal with it. (We are not getting good reports about the fourth graders coming up. Very low, immature and [...]
Posted in Philosophy 101, tagged cleaning, education, elementary school, summer, teaching on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I finally finished packing up my room. I could’ve done it all on Friday, but I wasn’t rushing since I knew they wouldn’t be using my room for summer camp. (Honestly, I got sidetracked blogging. ) You should see the bathroom- all the most valuable stuff is packed in there. I put in three student [...]
Posted in Time Card, tagged cleaning, education, elementary school, summer, summer vacation, teaching, work on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Last Week of this school year! Yee-Hah!!!
Monday: 10H
Tuesday: 9H
Wednesday: 10H 20
Thursday: 9H
Friday: 7H 40 plus Happy Hour, *woo*hoo*
Saturday: 1H – yes, I did some work on the Saturday after school let out. I figured if I’m in the mood to start working on things for next year, I better strike while the iron is [...]
Posted in Supply List on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A secondary goal for this website is to keep track of how much money I spend on my classroom this year.
I think people realize teachers spend their own money on their classroom, but maybe not how much we actually spend. Last year I said I wasn’t going to buy anything, and I still claimed $1200 [...]
Posted in Poli Sci, Recess, tagged cleaning, education, procrastination, summer, teaching, The Brady Bunch, work on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s the story
Of a lovely teacher
Who is too busy teaching to ever clean up.
Her room has too much stuff,
But it all gets used.
Her kids, they learn so much.
Here’s the story
Of the Summer Program
That nobody wants to let into their rooms.
Things will go missing
So they buy padlocks,
And lock it up with doom.
Til the one day when [...]
Posted in Recess, tagged cleaning, desk, education, elementary school, summer, teaching, work on June 19, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’m cleaning off my desk (which I never use) and decided I better figure out what is stuck so I could close the middle skinny drawer. I knew it was all the packs of stickers, but I went rooting around to see if there was anything to throw out. This is what I found:
My nametag [...]
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