The First Week

As some of you know I began teaching kindergarten this year. I am excited but also a little discouraged that another year will be spent doing primary. I also moved schools so that has been a hard transition. When I left Whitman last June I really thought I would be going back and so closure has been very slow to come. I am now working at a HUGE elementary school in south San Diego. The demographics are a little different but I am enjoying my students and their families. The hardest change is that I really don't know anyone. It's nice that I get a lot done during lunch and can go home before the sunsets but it is awfully lonely.
I have 11 kids in my class right now. I am probability going to get more this week. You would think that 11 is a really small number but I have a slough of behavior problems and 4 year olds should not be in a full day kinder program. It's hard to have so many good ideas for upper grades and then be stuck on the color red FOR A WEEK!!! Needless to say, I am singing a lot of songs and doing everything I can to make letters and numbers interesting. I will keep writing of my adventures...hopefully more amazing than awkward.

Summer 2009

A list for the last day of summer!

Happiness is…
Cold milk and warm cookies
Air conditioning
Magic Bulleting stuff
Lazy summer afternoons
Eating produce you grew from a seed
Taking naps while the sun is shining
Cherry sno-cones
Coming home after a long trip
Seeing old friends and making new ones
Winning at Scrabble
Cold sheets
Swimming late at night in the moonlight
New crayons and sharp pencils
Making new school year resolutions
Sleeping in late
Cooking on the grill.
The smell of a rainstorm coming
Finishing a scarf…finally
That chlorine smell that lingers
Hot dogs cooked over a fire
Listening to books on CD
Extra crispy bacon
Fried oats
Cheesy puns
Cheese in general ☺
Gorilla Tiles “Tiles of the Unexpected”
American Gladiators
Little fish babies
Graphjam.com
C.O. Bigelow Lipgloss
Over The Moon 1% Milk
Musicals
Meerkat Manor
Finally having a schedule again
Working hard at something and succeeding
The last first class of my master's program
Having friends and family that care and support me in all of my adventures