I haven't had school for OVER A WEEK. An early dismissal + a weekend + 5 days off (and 3 feet of snow). Then another weekend. THEN I leave for my recruiting trip. I won't see my class until the 22nd. I have had the laziest week ever, and it took me until today to come to this revelation...
Are you ready?
Here it is...
I miss my class!
Wow, if you had asked me a week ago if I would miss them and be ready to go back, I would have said no. But I guess a week break from them was just what I needed, and then I even have another week to get to the point where I REALLY miss them, and I then I'll go back all chipper and energetic and idealistic and ready to use Love and Logic Discipline.
I have a number of things I want to say, but first of all, I have not seen another person since Monday night!!!! Except I peer out my window and watch people shovel out their cars or get stuck on our hill. But that's it. And I haven't been out of the house since Tuesday, when I took out the trash and walked two blocks to a mailbox. This has never happened to me in my life, and it's kind of been like a little adventure, being snowed in here by myself. Kaitlin was here for the first storm, then she went home to Grove City leaving me to brave the second storm solo. My productivity has decreased exponentially each day. Saturday, our first day off, we cleaned the whole apartment. I worked on school stuff. I made a list and did things from it. Today, 6 days later, I sat on the couch, played guitar for a few hours, watched a movie, and tried to crochet a flower. And it was actually tiring. Man, I am going to be one exhausted little teacher once I have to teach all day again.
I am trying to read an educational book so my brain doesn't turn to mush this week. I started reading Teaching with Love and Logic. It's a style of classroom management that I guess I already try to do. It's very matter-of-fact, it aims to teach students problem solving and responsibility, and it's all about the teacher staying very calm and not engaging in power struggles. I'm not that far in the book yet, but so far I find it both encouraging and frustrating. Encouraging because it shows me that what I'm trying to do is valid. Frustrating because, well, it's not really working for me like the book says it'll work. Also, I think the language they want teachers to use borders on sarcastic and manipulative sometimes. But I will keep reading and trying and analyzing. I really like being able to read something and to analyze it based on my experience. It's definitely different than when I was in college, being forced to read things and not really having anything to apply it to yet.
Well, I think I may have had more I intended to say, but I am getting very antsy because I have not yet successfully crocheted a flower, and I would like to have at least something to show for my snowed-in week. All in all, I am so thankful for this surprise vacation and a chance to get back on track with my thinking and my attitude.
Sorry, no funny stories about the kiddos this time. So here are two funny pictures. In the first one, she was really just sitting there like that, and I thought it was funny, so I got out my camera and took her picture. She was not posing. The combination of the conductor's hat and the maracas makes me laugh. In the second picture, he had just picked those earmuffs from the prize box (he was the "Caught being good" winner of the day) and he thought they were so cool. He wanted to wear them all day, but I explained that he might have trouble hearing (even though he wasn't actually wearing them over his ears). So after just a few pictures he put them away till recess. How could I not miss those two precious faces??
Are you ready?
Here it is...
I miss my class!
Wow, if you had asked me a week ago if I would miss them and be ready to go back, I would have said no. But I guess a week break from them was just what I needed, and then I even have another week to get to the point where I REALLY miss them, and I then I'll go back all chipper and energetic and idealistic and ready to use Love and Logic Discipline.
I have a number of things I want to say, but first of all, I have not seen another person since Monday night!!!! Except I peer out my window and watch people shovel out their cars or get stuck on our hill. But that's it. And I haven't been out of the house since Tuesday, when I took out the trash and walked two blocks to a mailbox. This has never happened to me in my life, and it's kind of been like a little adventure, being snowed in here by myself. Kaitlin was here for the first storm, then she went home to Grove City leaving me to brave the second storm solo. My productivity has decreased exponentially each day. Saturday, our first day off, we cleaned the whole apartment. I worked on school stuff. I made a list and did things from it. Today, 6 days later, I sat on the couch, played guitar for a few hours, watched a movie, and tried to crochet a flower. And it was actually tiring. Man, I am going to be one exhausted little teacher once I have to teach all day again.
I am trying to read an educational book so my brain doesn't turn to mush this week. I started reading Teaching with Love and Logic. It's a style of classroom management that I guess I already try to do. It's very matter-of-fact, it aims to teach students problem solving and responsibility, and it's all about the teacher staying very calm and not engaging in power struggles. I'm not that far in the book yet, but so far I find it both encouraging and frustrating. Encouraging because it shows me that what I'm trying to do is valid. Frustrating because, well, it's not really working for me like the book says it'll work. Also, I think the language they want teachers to use borders on sarcastic and manipulative sometimes. But I will keep reading and trying and analyzing. I really like being able to read something and to analyze it based on my experience. It's definitely different than when I was in college, being forced to read things and not really having anything to apply it to yet.
Well, I think I may have had more I intended to say, but I am getting very antsy because I have not yet successfully crocheted a flower, and I would like to have at least something to show for my snowed-in week. All in all, I am so thankful for this surprise vacation and a chance to get back on track with my thinking and my attitude.
Sorry, no funny stories about the kiddos this time. So here are two funny pictures. In the first one, she was really just sitting there like that, and I thought it was funny, so I got out my camera and took her picture. She was not posing. The combination of the conductor's hat and the maracas makes me laugh. In the second picture, he had just picked those earmuffs from the prize box (he was the "Caught being good" winner of the day) and he thought they were so cool. He wanted to wear them all day, but I explained that he might have trouble hearing (even though he wasn't actually wearing them over his ears). So after just a few pictures he put them away till recess. How could I not miss those two precious faces??
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