You know how I always say that I'm going to try and be better at posting about my trip here....I'm a liar. I haven't posted in a month. Not because I don't want to but because I'm swamped with things that need to get done. I'm just trying to survive as a first year teacher.
Things in Kinder have been going really well. As usual I love my kiddos. They always are finding a way to challenge me but I wouldn't trade it for the world. Today was a new experience for me...I had one of my kiddos throw a chair and a tub or crayons across the room. I wasn't very happy with him but he picked them up and apologized for not listening. Each day brings something that needs to be dealt with. This month has been a HUGE month of firsts for me.
-First parent teacher conferences as a teacher. I had about 22 out of the 33 show up. They were short and sweet but it was so nice to meet parents and share the successes that their child has had.
-First book drawing. Most of my kiddos don't have books at home, as a part of our class wide behavior program we decided they could earn them. Every time the class gets 10 stars we'll have a book drawing. It's an all or nothing plan...all of them have to have a good day. Last week we finally got ten stars so we had our first book drawing. It was so exciting to see their faces light up. They really couldn't believe that I was letting them keep it forever.
-First awards ceremony. Honoring attendance, attitude, academic and improvement. They looked so cute getting their awards. We have another one Friday : )
-First call to OCS. Not something that I enjoyed doing but it was definitely a learning experience.
-First pen-pal letters. Now, they weren't happy with me when I originally told them that they were going to have to write a "lot" but they soon got over it. All 33 of my students wrote a letter to their new "friend" my morning class wrote to my mom's class and my afternoon class wrote to another friend of mine's class. I'm not so sure they really get that their friends are going to write them back so I'm excited to see their reaction to that.
(Side Note- I got to hand deliver the letters to both classes and got to talk to those kiddos about Chevak. I was able to go home for the weekend and surprise my mom.)
-A HUGE LEAP. Each of my kiddos gets tested every week to help make sure that they are making adequate progress. I'm looking at where some of them started and where they are now and it makes me feel like I might actually be doing a good job for my first year.
Tomorrow if the first time my kids will use labtops as part of an reading extension. Let's hope they don't break any! :S
Monday will be the first Halloween party. I don't really know what I'm going to do but I'm excited to wear my costume!
I haven't posted pictures in a long time...I'll have to post some very soon : )
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