Well, today it started to hit my kids that it is now April, and April means the end of my time in their classroom. We had a quick conversation today about that, and that I will come back and visit before I go home to California. This turned into about 10 minutes of "let's interview Ms. H," but it came at a good time -- I'm more interesting than storytime ;)
Because I'm feeling a little blue about leaving my kiddos, I wanted to write a list of good things about today.
* My idea of doing a full-class All About book for our unit on informational writing about science is catching on with all the first grade teachers. Score! I'm looking forward to taking it a step further and scanning students' pages, recording them reading aloud, and creating an ebook.
* My mom is very close to buying a plane ticket to visit me in Korea for Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving)! 행복 추석!
* There is some early discussion of family Christmas in Hawaii. Aloha!
* Wonderful conversation with the district ELL teacher about my future plans. She, as well as my CT and many others, encouraged me to keep an eye out for an opening in this school after my Korean adventure! What a compliment, and I'd love to come back to this community.
* Funny student moment today -- I told them I was in first grade in 1996, and one of them said, "Wow, that was World War II!" I'm usually pretty good at keeping composed in front of students, but I just cracked up.
* Meeting the babysitter of one of my first graders, and hearing that she loves me. Aw, shucks!
* Pizza and Conversation with pre-practicum students! (Coming soon, a post about the Eriksonian stages of student teaching...this event will come back.)
* Catching up with the licensure coordinator. She asked for the link to this blog, so hello to her and any other new readers she passed it along to!
* Building upon the idea of coming back to work at my current placement, the licensure coordinator mentioned that I could also take on MHC students in pre-practicums and practicums. Sounds like a fun deal to me!
* I'm done with nearly all of my lead teaching plans, other than writing, which is more of a day-by-day planning enterprise with myself, my CT, and our ELA specialist. No more toting the math curriculum back and forth!
* Just got an e-mail from the principal responding to my invitation for her to observe a lesson. She's excited to watch me do a read-aloud and worksheet on Venn diagrams on Wednesday!
There's so much more I could say, but I'm getting sleepy and I want to do a little more research for my next post. Until next time, dear readers...!
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Currently reading: still Teaching Children to Care. Great book, but takes a while to get through.
Current high: have you been paying attention?!?
Current low: not ready to leave my little buddies...
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