Well I am back at school. It is my Friday tomorrow (thank goodness!). We are going on a field trip to see Hansel and Gretel. A pretty scary fairy tale if you ask me, and after the whole Terry Fox fiasco (After watching a video about the life and death and story of Terry Fox: "Is Terry Fox real?" "Yeah, he was a real person, younger then me!" "And Terry Fox is from Canada?" "Yep." "Well, I am NEVER going to Canada!")...
Since it the beginning of a new term, I am trying really hard to be strict with my kids in order to set them of for a productive, successful rest of the year. It requires SO much more effort then just letting certain things slide. I had a great beginning of the day. I love sitting with my kids and answering their questions about whatever pops into their head. SO this morning I explained what a play is by doing a quick reenactment of Little Red Riding Hood with another teacher. Another favourite thing of mine to do is to be really silly in front of the kids. They just htink it is hilarious. Sometimes I will sing (latest, singing Billy Ray Cyrus's Achy Breaky Heart" when I realized that that song came out when I was in grade 2 and they love Miley Cyrus). Sometimes pretend to do ballet moves (many of my girls practise ballet), and I really can't do the steps at all. By the end of the day I was really tired. As with most classrooms my kids are super chatty. and so often they just don't listen until i use my "mean teacher" voice. Tomorrow my goal is to recognize the good and focus on this instead of the opposite!
PS I changed my settings so everyone can leave comments.
We need more blogs to read - then maybe someone would comment!
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