The Triumph: Since I am in a classroom with two part time classes, I often have the chance to reteach lessons, and make changes based off of the first run of the lesson. After my lesson yesterday on ways that authors sometimes organize their books (Days of the Week), I was able to re-word my lesson delivery and students today seemed to have a better grasp on the idea!
The Struggle: Teaching with a headache! I woke up 15 minutes before I had to leave and have had the most awful headache all day long (I think from the lack of caffeine!). It really makes it hard for me to enjoy the day when I just want to close my eyes and go sleep. I did my best for the kids today, but geez it was difficult!!
The Ludicrousness: We got a new student today! Cutest little girl ever. I walked in to lunch with the kids, as a usually do, and stayed with them a little longer than usual to help a student with his sopping wet lunch bag. I made sure to go around and check in with our new student to see how she was doing so far and ask her what she had for lunch. She showed me her delicious looking sandwich and then I left the lunchroom. At the end of the day we have been doing sharing as a whole class and students can share something that they brought in from home or share a story about something that they have done. It has also become a time when kids will take remainders from their lunch boxes and munch on them. Our new student had noticed this and asked me if she could eat one of her grapes. I told her yes of course. She opened her lunch box and there was her sandwich, completely untouched!! She then told me she didn't have time to get to her sandwich. She decided to eat her sandwich, and ate it quicker than I have ever seen any kid eat their lunches!! She must have been so hungry!
The ups and downs of teaching! In my opinion, headaches and nausea are the worst! I had a teaching partner in 6th grade one year who was pregnant and had "morning sickness" for a good part of her pregnancy! We had a folding wall between our classrooms and we kept it partially folded back so she could poke her head through to let me know that she was heading for the bathroom! She was a trooper! We made it through and 7 years later I had her son (the one with whom she was pregnant while we were teaching together) in the gifted program I taught in SK! How weird is that!?
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