New Blog!

Due to a need to have blogging connected to our PHR6 email, we have a new blog (since blogger is such a gripe to connect to our email)! I sent you an invite to our WordPress blog on your school email.

To access your email from a school computer, open a web browser and type
//fs2/exchange
in the URL spot.

From home, go to mail.phr6.com/exchange. When it prompts you to enter your user name, type:
phr6.com\username and enter your password.

If you have trouble with the process, come see me.

Here we go again

The kids seem to keep getting crazier and crazier as each week passes. It's fun to watch each kid get more and more comfortable with me. i love the fact that they are starting to open up but i am afraid they will get too comfortable. The more laid back they get the more obnoxious they become. It still drives me crazy when they randomly yell at the top of their lungs but then i have to remember that they are only 6th grade boys. i hope that it will get better here pretty soon.

this week was a good week, we are getting ready to start personel developement and Mrs. Keck said that I can start to make a lesson plan and teach soon!!

It's still hectic!

I'm not sure if these kids will calm down. They are still very loud and disruptive. It seems like all I do is complain about them, but it's really not all that bad. I think they will calm down eventually. I still have hope for them. :) All together they do get their work done, so I guess that's good. They are working on drawing storyboards explaining Native American Legends. They are working in partners. I just drew their names out of a hat to figure out their partner. The next project is making dream catchers. She's going to start integrating me into the teaching stuff. I think I am going to help teach the embroidery unit and the mask making unit. It seems like we are emphasizing a lot on the Native American culture. I'm excited to get to learn more about the Native's culture and teach about their art. Thanks for reading my lovely post! :D

Good Week

I'm starting to work with the students on my own more and more. The new boy that starts with a K is warming up to me. Unfortunately he can't go to tutoring and he really needs it. I wish I could drive him but I know I can't. I found out that even if a child is being lazy you can't take away his recess or P.E. to catch him up on his work. I think we should be able to take that time and use it!

Refreshing my memory!

This week was another 4 day week for me because our of softball tournament. We've started on the job section. They typed their letters and worked on job applications. They had to write as if they were applying for a job at Walmart. I got to go around and help them with their formatting of their letters. I mainly helped with the way that they should address the owner (aka Ms. Kelly). I also went around and read a few of their papers and helped with some of their sentences so they would sound more professional. They also filled out job applications. I only helped a little with these though. I think that they are learning alot from doing both of these. I know that it is for sure refreshing my memory from last year. It will definitely help me when applying for a job, and I know that it will help them alot too. I really like how many different things we are covering in this class. I also like how much all of the students are learning and they don't even realize how much this will help them once they graduate.

Journal 4

Yes! Finally, first week Cadet Teaching! I started on Wednesday. The Horizons schedule is all kinds of screwed up this year at the elementary. First grade has Horizons for block 4 in the afternoon on Monday and Tuesday, block 2 on Wednesday, block 1 on Thursday, and block 2 again on Friday. Second grade is block 2 on M-T, and block 3 on W-Th-F. Third grade has it worst. They actually start before anyone else does on M, block 1 on T-W, and block 3 Th, but no Horizons on Friday. Fourth grade has it block 3 on M-T, then block 4 on W-Th-F.

You probably didn't understand all that after only reading it once, so let it suffice to say that I will be dealing mostly with first grade on Mondays and Tuesdays, and mostly fourth grade from Wednesday to Friday. I will also have the very end of the 3rd block on all days, so that means more 4th grade and a little bit of 2nd grade.

Anyway, the kids are already warming up to me a lot, particularly the older ones. I still have to learn all their names, but I'll be working on that. My first day I didn't do much, but I've been integrated more since then. Thursday I played a brain game with them, and Friday I helped them with their new logic puzzles. My homework was to teach my little sister how to do the 2nd grade logic puzzle. She didn't quite understand it the first day. They're kinda hard for the really young ones.

All in all, it's looking like it will be a lot of fun! I look forward to next week!