Once again it's been a couple of weeks since I've been on here. A lot of it has been because I've been in my classroom. On Saturday I think I spent about 8 full hours working, trying to get ahead of the game. When we're in our Education college classes, we can only dream about how much work teaching is. Just as you think you've caught up, then you're thrown into a whole new set of chaos. Let me explain.
Monday we had a GeoDome presentation for 30 minutes, tomorrow we have a Badlands National Park ranger coming to talk to our class for an hour, on Wednesday five of my kids are going to a Speech Contest, Thursday apparently is our normal day, and Friday we don't have school. Today during our elementary staff meeting we talked about canceling what we call our DEW Day (it stands for Drop Everything and Write day) so that we can actually teach. This entire month is eaten up by all of the extra crap. Well, I'm pumped about the ranger coming in, but other than that it's really throwing a raucous into our schedules. Our kids don't know what a "normal" school day is anymore. In between all of this, I'm trying to assess where my students are learning. Wait, do we have time for our actual curriculum? Nope. Not to mention that our Xmas program is 23 days away..not that the veteran teachers are counting or anything.
On a more positive note, I have a pretty funny story. Today my kids came back from PE all rilled up. My aide, Mando, had told me that she could hear the PE teacher, Kevin, yelling at the kids all the way by our front building. After Mando had a stern talk with the class about it, one of my kids, Precious, said, "Miss Abby," very loudly. I turned and saw that she couldn't get her sweater over her head. She said, "Can you help me? I'm stuck,". I pulled her sweater back over her head and realized that her hair was seriously caught in the zipper. It caught me so off guard that I erupted in laughter and so did the whole class. Basically after some exploration I had to cut of a small chunk of her hair to get the sweater off. Thank goodness she laughed it off with the kids. Having moments like this make me realize how grateful I am to be a kindergarten teacher. Life wouldn't be nearly as fun without my 20 crazy kids.
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