In the interest of staying positive, I have held off posting for a few days. I want to like my job and I want to be excited about it, but it has been really difficult.
Tuesday was interesting because my principal decided for whatever reason not to send out an email to the staff and I ended up being the bearer of that news. More tears.
Wednesday I said good-bye to my kids with a party c/o Food City. I went nuts and spent a whole $25.00 on junk food! They helped me tear down my room and a few of them took some souvenirs which was cute. Tears were shed by a few girls. I took them to their new teachers rooms at the end of the day and then all of the fourth and fifth grades had a big ice cream party in the hallway.
Thursday I went to Balsz and Bret and I got a lot of work done on the room. It was up and running by the end of the day and I had a chance to meet with my new team. Again, in the interest of staying positive, I will hold off on sharing my comments on Oh Joy, Count Milton and Snorris until I can find something to love about them.
Today I went to Griffith for staff breakfast and everyone on staff had pooled their money and they gave me close to $200.00 to spend in my room. I am so touched! I can't believe that his happened to me and that I have to leave my griffith womb. Then I went to Balsz and did some observation and felt mostly unproductive. They have a lot of resources and not a lot of structure. I feel a little lost but I think I am beginning to see the light on the curriculum. Two of the teachers have decided to get away from the basal readers and do more of this shared reading/whole language approach stuff. They are using a lot of poetry, individual book bags for each kid, and independent reading time. To me, it looked like chaos and, even though I like what they are doing, I just can't do it at this point in my career. I might try doing book bags for a reading group and conferencing with reading groups but not one-on-one like that. I also think I want to hit phonics a little harder than these teachers do. After seeing how it worked when Mary did it, I really believe it helps kids learn to read. Esp. language learners.
I am going to start with the kids on Tuesday. I will have 18 and from what I have heard, they are good kids. The ones I have met are adorable, of course. When I was observing in one classroom today, a little girl kept insisting "you're cute!" Then she goes, "you're cute in your eyes." It was so sweet. It will make more sense once I have my class and we meet each other and start to settle into a routine.
Right now, I just feel a little nervous and awkward.
Love,
Miss Bee
2 comments:
Hey Lez; Dad on mom's Gmail again. Looks like you are going to missed by your old school. That was very nice of the teachers to get the money collected they did. They don't that unless they think a lot of you. We are thinking of you here as well. Hope you get a pkg Mon or Tues. Saw you tried to call Mom earlier. We went to the 11. Call again. We would love to talk to you.
Love you;
Dad
just figured out I have been not signing in right on all my comments. I cannot remember all of thme but know the first graders you are getting to meet this week are very lucky to get you. You will do GREAT.
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