Well, things are back to being crazy as usual! :) This week I spent Wednesday and Thursday at the school for 12 hours each day, doing Parent/Teacher Conferences! They were VERY long days, but all of them went pretty well though. I didn't have parents yelling at me like I feared...they were actually really supportive and if their kid was doing bad, they wanted to know how they could help improve the situation! I have such awesome parents of my students! I am really thankful for that...it makes my life easier to have that kind of support, because I really do want these kids to succeed and they will if I have help.
I am pretty excited for next week, not only because it is a short week, but we are doing a Pioneer Day on Tuesday! It is going to be filled with pioneer activities like making candles, tying quilts, making butter and soup, playing games, and making potatoe prints in the morning and then in the afternoon, they get to "pack their wagons" and go on a "trek" around the field outside! We are going to actually have them pull wheelbarrows or wagons with things in them and have situations in which they will have to get rid of items and have trials. We are then going to have them come in and eat some soup and bread with butter on it and go home! I did a pioneer day similar to this when I was student teaching, but I don't think it lasted the whole day, so it will be a blast! (hopefully!) I will have to take some pictures and share them...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Back To School...
Well, my break is officially over... :( It is back to reality tomorrow! On Friday I had to go in and move all my stuff into another classroom. Luckily there is lots of help, but it just takes a while to get everything all set up! The good thing is that I am in a really big room so there is more space in between the desks and more places to move around the room. Also, they just installed a microphone in that room so I don't have to talk so loud anymore. I noticed that my voice would be kind of hoarse when I went to bed each night when I started teaching. Now, I can just wear this microphone around my neck and talk normal. It will be really nice!
Anyway, it will be good for me to go back, because I started getting bored this past week! I was having a hard time motivating myself to do anything useful, but I did manage to get some lesson planning done, so hopefully I am ready for tomorrow. It will be fun to hear what all of my students did over the break. They are such cute kids! I really am excited to see them again!
Anyway, it will be good for me to go back, because I started getting bored this past week! I was having a hard time motivating myself to do anything useful, but I did manage to get some lesson planning done, so hopefully I am ready for tomorrow. It will be fun to hear what all of my students did over the break. They are such cute kids! I really am excited to see them again!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
NEW YORK!
I'm back!!! I had a blast in New York! We left on the red eye flight last Friday morning and got home at about 4 in the morning today... so five whole days in New York! Here are some pictures and what we did every day! Enjoy!
We saw a lot of all the good sights like the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Brooklyn Bridge, and the World Trade Center sight all on the first day we got there because we couldn't check into our hotel (the Marriott at Times Square!) until 4 and we got there at 6 in the morning! That was a VERY long day because of not much sleep, but it was worth every minute of it! We bought a ticket to ride these double-decker tour buses around town that you could see all of the sights on and took a "water taxi" to the Statue of Liberty and all around t
he island. We also walked to the Brooklyn Bridge and Ground Zero. You couldn't see much of Ground Zero, because of all of the construction still going on, but you could go into a visitor's center and check out some really neat things there. That was a very humbling experience.
We also went to the Empire State Building, Central Park, and did a LOT of shopping on Canaal Street, Soho, and Times Square. It was a beautiful day when we went to Central Park, but VERY cold when we went on the Empire State Building. There wasn't much visibility, but we had fun anyway! You can see in the picture that it was WAY windy. I felt like I was going to be blown right off the deck! We didn't see all of Central Park, because it was so big, but it was gorgeous! We got a lot of pretty pictures there. We mostly walked everywhere, so our feet were very tired after every day was over, but we did ride the subway once, and a took a taxi back to the airport.
We also got up VERY early on Monday and went to stand in the crowd on the TODAY Show! We all got to be on TV a couple of times and I got to shake Matt and Meridith's hands! It was way fun to be famous for a day! This is Sally and I waiting by the fence!
Over the course of our trip, we also went to see 3 broadway plays! We saw Wicked, Mary Poppins, and The Phantom of the Opera! They were all way awesome! We had tickets to Wicked before we left, but bought the other ones for half off at a ticket office in Times Square. These are all of the theaters we went to.
That pretty much sums it all up except for the fact that on the way home our flight was a little DELAYED to say the least..... First of all, it wasn't good weather, so they only had one runway open for all of the flights to take off and we had to wait for that, then right as we were first in line, the maintenance light came on and we had to go back to the gate to get the fuel burner checked or something. Then, we were all ready to take off again and the light came on AGAIN and we had to go back to the gate! Well, 4 HOURS after we were supposed to take off, we FINALLY got in the air! Let's just say, we were all very tired after we were on an airplane for 8 or more hours! And all they gave us was water and free headphones to watch a movie! :( Oh well, I guess we made it home okay.... and that is what counts... right? :) There's no place like home!
We saw a lot of all the good sights like the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Brooklyn Bridge, and the World Trade Center sight all on the first day we got there because we couldn't check into our hotel (the Marriott at Times Square!) until 4 and we got there at 6 in the morning! That was a VERY long day because of not much sleep, but it was worth every minute of it! We bought a ticket to ride these double-decker tour buses around town that you could see all of the sights on and took a "water taxi" to the Statue of Liberty and all around t
he island. We also walked to the Brooklyn Bridge and Ground Zero. You couldn't see much of Ground Zero, because of all of the construction still going on, but you could go into a visitor's center and check out some really neat things there. That was a very humbling experience.
We also went to the Empire State Building, Central Park, and did a LOT of shopping on Canaal Street, Soho, and Times Square. It was a beautiful day when we went to Central Park, but VERY cold when we went on the Empire State Building. There wasn't much visibility, but we had fun anyway! You can see in the picture that it was WAY windy. I felt like I was going to be blown right off the deck! We didn't see all of Central Park, because it was so big, but it was gorgeous! We got a lot of pretty pictures there. We mostly walked everywhere, so our feet were very tired after every day was over, but we did ride the subway once, and a took a taxi back to the airport.
We also got up VERY early on Monday and went to stand in the crowd on the TODAY Show! We all got to be on TV a couple of times and I got to shake Matt and Meridith's hands! It was way fun to be famous for a day! This is Sally and I waiting by the fence!
Over the course of our trip, we also went to see 3 broadway plays! We saw Wicked, Mary Poppins, and The Phantom of the Opera! They were all way awesome! We had tickets to Wicked before we left, but bought the other ones for half off at a ticket office in Times Square. These are all of the theaters we went to.
That pretty much sums it all up except for the fact that on the way home our flight was a little DELAYED to say the least..... First of all, it wasn't good weather, so they only had one runway open for all of the flights to take off and we had to wait for that, then right as we were first in line, the maintenance light came on and we had to go back to the gate to get the fuel burner checked or something. Then, we were all ready to take off again and the light came on AGAIN and we had to go back to the gate! Well, 4 HOURS after we were supposed to take off, we FINALLY got in the air! Let's just say, we were all very tired after we were on an airplane for 8 or more hours! And all they gave us was water and free headphones to watch a movie! :( Oh well, I guess we made it home okay.... and that is what counts... right? :) There's no place like home!
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