I started my student teaching this week! No, the students were not there...and HBU doesn't start until Monday. However, we started this week!
The nice thing was, I didn't have to be there until 8 :) So I got to leave my house at 7:20! Next week I will have to be there by 7:30, so I have to leave by 6:55 or 7! Eek!
This week was pretty good, Monday I had student teacher orientation, then Tuesday I started going to the school :)
Tuesday I went to the school and found out that my teacher was in training at Kempner High School (my school is on the opposite side of highway 6- near Murphy road). So I get to Kempner...oh my gosh, that place is big! lol I found the room and met my teacher. Then I learned for 3 hours about their new grade book/report card system. Did I mention 3 hours?! We leave and I eat lunch with my teacher and another 1st grade teacher at Boston Market :) Pricey, but really yummy!
Oh! Yeah, I went in Tuesday thinking I had 2nd grade and then 5th grade later in the semester. While my teacher was looking at the new grade book software, everything said 1st grade. I didn't think much of it, since it just got released for everyone. Then she asked who I had for 5th grade, I tell her the name and she goes "Um, that's 4th grade!". I asked her which grade she was in "Your second grade right?" Nope! My professor accidentally put 2nd and 5th grade, but I really have 1st and 4th grade!! Yay!! I was soo nervous about having 5th grade! I've done 4th grade before, so it calmed my nerves!
Back to Tuesday....we went back to the school, got to be in my teacher's classroom for about an hour, maybe. Then another meeting! This one I think lasted 3 hours as well. Needless to say, Tuesday was not a very exciting day!
I was/am excited and was/am happy that I have such a nice teacher! She has been teaching for a while so she is knowledgeable! :)
Wednesday was just a work day! So I helped my teacher with her classroom. I cut out a ton of laminated stuff, which is easy, so I didn't mind! My teacher is so cool, she has a projector and screen in her room...so to fill up the silence, she put an episode of The View on and then an episode of NCIS. Pretty cool! lol
Wednesday was the last day I got to hang out with her this week, since her daughter is a freshman in college and she is going to college in Fort Worth, so she went to help her for the rest of the week.
Thursday, wow! I don't really remember anything! lol All the days get mixed up right now! We had a yummy breakfast catered for the teachers (and me) then there were meetings. I got to see their TAKS scores and how much they have improved! I was impressed! Thursday night was Meet and Greet! I got to meet 17 out of the 22 students and their parents! Since my teacher was not there another 1st grade teacher helped me out. When she wasn't in the room and I was all by myself, I was a little excited, it was like I was a "real" teacher and had my own classroom! hehe
Then today we had another meeting in the morning. Yep, a lot of meetings, but how else is everyone going to get the info that efficiently? Then we had lunch catered! BBQ! Yum! Then this afternoon I helped another 1st grade teacher with getting her supplies organized. Some of the students brought supplies Thurs. night, so I helped her put them away. I got some folders ready for my teacher, cut out some laminated things, put the community supplies away, and put the rest of the items some brought in their desk :) All that without her knowing :) I'm sure she will be happy to see those things already ready!
Monday is when the students start! I will leave my house, prob. at 6:30 or 6:45...the 1st day of school, especially an Elementary School is CrAzY!! My teacher, of course, will be there on Monday. I am excited, but I know I will be so tired! I am looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow morning! :D
Even though waking up early can be hard to do, I realized something this morning. It is so peaceful! With everyone sleeping (well, Joey sleeping), the kitties calm, the sun just starting to peek over into the windows...it is so nice and quiet! I wish I would have had time to just sit and rock in our rocking chair. Something about it calmed my spirit this morning while I was rushing to go get ready.
That is one thing I loved to do at OneCamp, when I was a camper. I loved to wake up early, watch the sun rise and do my quiet time. I felt so connected...of course that could have been because I was isolated at camp too.
To be honest, sadly, I am not doing a daily quiet time. I want to, I do! I just don't have the drive. I don't have a devotional, I don't know where to start in the Bible. I was reading through it, but stopped in Deut. Then I tried to read randomly...that didn't last long. I need something! I want to thirst for God's Word! I know I need that spiritual food! It is important for me and to me to be in a close, forever seeking to be closer, relationship with my creator!
Please pray for me that I may crave God's Word, may be patient next week, that in my lack of energy I will not get crabby towards others! Pray for my husband, poor guy...I've been so tired (and haven't been planning ahead) that we've had PB&J's and hot dogs this week for dinner! He is such a great man! I am blessed!
I am on the last part of my college journey to begin another one that God has called me into! Here I go! :)
