Where Memories Are Made (part 1)

That's right, Celebration is the perfect place to make amazing memories! Re-cap of last week in the classroom:

Last week is the classroom was great! We got so much accomplished and I am officially teaching all day (minus the PDA writing, which I will never teach) It feels so great to finally be a teacher! During my lessons my mentor will leave the classroom to go make copies or check her mailbox or do other things, and that allows me to really be on my own and experience things first hand. A few problems arose during my time alone, however. One: I had to send someone to the nurses office because they had a bug bite that was itching and very red, the thing at this school is since the hallways are outside (campus style) we cant send just one student to the nurse we have to send at least another one with the child going to the clinic. Well I remembered that i had to send two people, but I couldn't find the nurse passes!!!!! What a problem when your on your own, with 19 students staring you in the face, like what now miss. Lang! So after a good 2 minutes of hunting around in my teachers desk for a nurse pass, I finally found one and send the child to the clinic! Definitely a learning experience! Second problem, well, not problem let's say observation! 19 students can literally go through 100 pencils in one day, its unreal! I am constantly being asked if a student can sharpen his or her pencil or I am sharpening them myself! The electric sharpener is starting to dis-like how often its being used! It sharpens about 3 pencils and then overheats and wont work for at least 15 minutes! yes the little things really can throw off your whole day! Other than that, we had a pretty smooth week. We are continuing measurement in math and will take the chapter test this Friday. In science we completed force and motion today, and I will begin my unit on magnets tomorrow (I'm very excited about this!) and another awesome thing, my class is currently working on a "class book" that will be published by the library and available to buy for parents or teachers! We decided to make a book with poems, so this week in writing I am teaching the students about different kinds of poems and then they are writing their own and at the end of the week, we will decide which poem they want to include in our class book! How fun is that!!! The kids are very excited and keep asking if they can publish more than one poem, its adorable! Who ever thought a kid would write a poem about olives!? but yes, one of my students did today, and actually after reading it, I wanted to go eat an olive and I don't even like olives! Its amazing how well second graders can write poems!

Well, I am out of time for tonight. I have so much to tell everyone about last weekend at Disney World though. I'll add another post tomorrow after school. Enjoy your day =)