14 Febuary

Valentine's Day....great. Lovely. Wonderful. Early release day. Kids were hyped up and everything after our little party. I'm so glad that they got to go home early. I got to sit down with a parent conference which was interesting and I learned a lot.

9 Feb. 2006

Dying......please put me out of my misery. Slept for 2.5 days straight and wasn't in school on Thurs or Fri

7 Feb 2006

Math went a little better today. I got to teach measurements (centimeters and inches). This took a while, especially since we got to school late. (Was this the day we went in late?) I don't remember doing half the stuff they're doing now until I was in upper elementary.

6 Feb 2006

It's official. I hate teaching math. I get what I'm supposed to teach, but how I'm supposed to get it across to the kids, I have no idea. However, I've figured out that if you put them on the carpet and let them play with math objects (we were doing geometric shapes), it holds their attention. Yea for attention grabbers!

3 Feb. 2006

What do you do when a kid won't sit on his bottom or have all 4 chair legs on the floor? All I can see is this kid falling on the floor, cracking his head open, and blood everywhere. I told him to stand up. I only did this for a minute, but he learned his lesson. Apparently, this isn't acceptable anymore because parents might misunderstand this. I just didn't want the kid to fall on the floor and have blood everywhere. However, my teacher felt the way I do, but cautioned me to be careful next time because parents might misunderstand.

Tuesday 31 January

It's official. Kids are NASTY. They are the most vile things in the world. I had a kid who had a cough and didn't cover his mouth. My worst nightmare came true: he coughed on my face when I was helping another kid. I felt something wet hit my face and I wiped it off with the tissues at the table. I asked him if we cover our mouths when we cough, etc. He said he was sorry. Of course, I went to bathe with the clorox wipes. Ugh, I STILL feel nasty.

Monday January

Have you ever REALLY listened to people with a thick southern accent talk? I had a kid come up to me and ask me how to spell "enem". I asked her like 5 times what she meant. She finally told me, and I swear to Hera this is what she said: "You know: Me and my mom and them go to the Dollar General." She was running "Mom and them" together into one word. It's like something you expect to hear at a Southern Bashing, but not really hear anybody use it.