Terrific Tuesday!

Hello!!!
Alright, what a great start to my week. The weather has been in the low 70 and sunny yesterday and today, my students are working so hard and following the new rules I put into place last week!

When I first started observing in my classroom, I noticed that my students did not have many consequences to their behaviors, and as I have been taught at Ashland, students need consequences! Now they are only 7 and 8 so the consequences must be reasonable, so when your card gets flipped to yellow, you owe me 10 minutes of your 20 minutes of recess...pretty reasonable I think! So far I have only had 4 students owe me recess in two days, hopefully by the end of the week we are down to none =) (one can only hope for perfect students!) I am teaching spelling, reading and math and the students are responding very well to me teaching them! They are involved and love to participate in discussions! When I notice my students are getting a little.."sleepy" shall we say, we do a quick stand up, spread out, and ten jumping jacks on my count, and sit back down quietly and keep working! They LOVE IT!!

Today was mine (and Tiffany's) first experience with the new teachers salad bar...all I can say is...AMAZING! After Tiffany went through the line to make her salad, let's just say they had to restock! She sure does love her veggies!!! I personally loved the tuna salad and spinach with yellow peppers and carrots part! My salad was great and tomorrow is salad bar too...lunch is the new high point to my Tuesday's and Wednesday's!! Another high point to Wednesday's...EARLY RELEASE! Why has Ohio not caught onto such a wonderful thing =)

Next week I will continue teaching the same subjects and then pick up science and eventually writing. The writing series Florida uses is very different than what I am used to in Ohio, so that will take some getting used to!

I really cannot put into words how blessed and thankful I am to have this opportunity. I am definitely learning a lot and strengthening myself as an individual and as a teacher!