Saturday, January 29, 2011

If my life were a Doctor Suess story..

This past week I have been horrible at blogging. There is just so much to do! I hardly have time for anything, so I will try to compile all of my recent happenings into one post and hopefully you will get the drift. 
My Kids. 
Teaching elementary boys is still the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I team teach with Anna but I am having problems always coming up with ways to keep them entertained, speaking and hopefully get some spelling in there too. It has been chaos but there has been little glimmers of light in the silliest things. 
In my level one class, I have three boys. Illiah #1, Illiah #2 and Big D.. (Daniel). They are all nine and full of energy. I think I like them best though. They are at the age where they still think I’m cool. I defiantly earned brownie points with Daniel when we talked Star Wars. This kid is brilliant and all he talks about is StarWars. He asked me to call him Annikin last week, but I told him I would settle with “Big D”. He is so determined everyday to get his homework done in class so he can go home and watch StarWars. He said he has watched every episode 15 times. He sounds a bit like my brother:) 

I love my little Illiahs’. They are my thing 1 and thing 2, and just as much trouble. Illiah ,  ( I feel bad for numbering them, but I have yet to figure out how to pronounce their last names) he is so curious, about everything. He is always the first to ask questions and I love it. He is so innocent, except when conspiring with his counterpart. The other Illiah, just makes me laugh. I’m pretty sure he is a little old man in a 9 year olds body. He is so cute with his button down shirts that he is constantly tucking in and complaining that he needs suspenders. They may drive me up the wall, but I’m really starting to love them. 
I’d love to go off about my level 4 boys.. but I don’t have much good to say unfortunately. This week another teacher is coming in from Utah. His name is Derrick and Anna and I are giving this class up to him, figuring that the boys might respect him a bit more. They are a lot of fun, but sad to say that they are all mostly just rich stuck up little brats.. I know I shouldn’t say that, but I really don’t like them that much.. except Bogdon, the one who gave me the tin heart. He is also the one everyone picks on. I feel bad for him. Hopefully Derrick will be able to whip these boys into shape!
When I am not teaching elementary, I am teaching Kindergarden and Pre K (the fun stuff). It is still hard, but they are just so cute, it doesn’t seem to matter as much. Here are some of  my girls. Sophia and Melissa. They are only five and speak fluently. Sophia  has such a little attitude and has very dramatic facial expressions, remind you of anyone?:) I love her. Pre K is a blast and super easy. As long as you sing “Tiny Turtle” and make stupid faces, they love you. 
This is really the hardest thing I have done. I feel like I need to switch off posts between school life, and everything else. So much has happened. I can already feel myself and perspective changing. This was not by chance. 

PS. Ill post pictures when I get to school on Monday. My internet at home is not very good. 

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