Week number one under my belt, and It feels great. Friday was a great day to wrap up the week with. I finally feel like some of the students are opening up to me ( and I can call almost all of them by name:). Friday is free choice Friday for the students so they get to choose what game to play. The 6th graders chose to play dodgeball, and then screamed for Ms. Pauluhn to play. Ok I will play, but I wasn't going to go all out, because they were not ready for this intramural dodgeball trained teacher. ha. First round I was running up to throw it at one of my girls and just got smoked in my chest/throat by one of the boys. Bring it on..........next round I was holding nothing back. I got a few students out, but the third game was the best, I just absolutely railed the kid in the stomach who had pegged me the first round. He looked at me shocked, like he never thought I could get him out, and a little bit surprised at how hard I had thrown it. It was all in good fun though, and that was probably one of my favorite classes. We have the sixth graders for health later in the day, and that student walked in and kind of threw his nose up at me, and I just kind of chuckled. Earlier in the week he had decided that I was cool because we were both wearing puma shoes. Now, he told me that did not matter anymore. They took a quiz that period and when they are finished they are allowed to doodle on the backs of them. He finished drawing his picture and called me over. It was a picture of the dodgeball game, and him hitting me, and I think he had me saying something, but it was hilarious. He just looked at me and smiled. Haha, gotta love middle school boys and their competitiveness. Good thing we arent going to play dodgeball for a while again. The rest of the classes went well too, I think that these eight weeks are just going to fly by.
On Fridays the teachers end the week with snack in the library; it is just a time to get together and chat a little and unwind from the week. My co-op was in charge of snacks and brought cake. If any of you know me at all you should know that cake probably made my week:) But either way, it was nice to talk to some of the other teachers and get to know them as well. Jamie (one of my friends who is student teaching in the 5th grade classroom at St. John's) and i felt like teachers when we left the library that afternoon.
Bring on week two.....
Isaiah 55:9-11"“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."
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