TGIF!

Goodness this has been a long, exhausting week! I am thankful it is Friday and I get a few days of rest (okay maybe only one because I'm working on lesson plans tonight and on Sunday!) But I will take what I can get. I LOVE teaching and I LOVE all my little 22 (we got a new student this week!) first graders, but whew, teaching is really exhausting. I don't think it will be so bad when I get my portfolio finished and am able to focus on just teaching but for right now, the stress has kicked in and boy can I sure tell it has. 1) I am emotional, 2) I take everything to heart, and 3) I worry all the time. Wait maybe all three of those things occur everyday.

One thing I have learned this past week is somethings you just have to brush of your should and move on and not worry about it. I seem to always have a weighted sack on my back and I just need to brush it off and keep on moving forward! So needless to say, this week has been challenging, but I'm bound and determined to kick it up a notch and put one foot in front of the other and have FUN teaching!

Kids say the silliest stuff! I sometimes take Powerade in a sports bottle and one day a little girl asked me if I was drinking wine! Ha! I had to laugh!

Well I just thought I would write a little blurb since it has been about a week or so since I have updated and added an entry to my blog! I need to get back to those lesson plans! Have a great weekend and GOOOOO Cats! :)

Thanks for reading and until next time,
Miss Andrews

It's Been Awhile!

Ahh! It's been quite sometime since I have written in my blog! Yikes! Many things have taken place over the last several weeks. I have began doing the ritual morning calendar with our first graders and also this interview/name game that Mrs. M does with her class. So that has been excited. We have had parent orientation night and that was a little nerve racking because I had to give a little blurb about me in front of all our first grade parents! I bet my face was beat red because it felt like it was! It has been an exciting, but exhausted couple of weeks. Whoever thinks teachers have the easiest job in the world needs to think again! This is tough stuff, but I do enjoy it!

This coming week I start teaching language arts with consist of a "letter of the day!" This will be interesting but I'm kind of nervous. When I observe my cooperating teacher, everything looks so easy! BUT when I get in front of our students, it's not so easy. I have also came up with a unit topic that I'm going to plan my 2 week unit over which is Pilgrims, Indians, and Thanksgiving! That should be fun and exciting for first graders!

I'm so blessed to be at Amanda Arnold with so many nice, caring people. I adore my cooperating teacher, my clinical instructor, my K-State instructor, our para's, and everyone else!

So overall, I would say student teaching is a huge success so far! The only downside to it is that I want to go home after school and go straight to bed! Yikes! :)

Well, it's Saturday night, 10:00 and I'm off to bed because this girl is tired!

Until next time!
Breah

P.S. If this blog doesn't make any since it's because I'm sleep deprived! :)