dramatic interpretation of student teaching in a kindergarten classroom

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kindergarten crisis

hold on, the bunny's on the paper cutter... this is too funny!
ok, she's safe once again.
what is that rabbit's obsession with sharp objects??
in case you hadn't noticed, i'm still at school, and i've let the class bunny run loose while i do stuff. her name is harley. great. now she's under the cabinet.

anyway, i basically logged on to update you: one of our baby chicks has died. he died after class today. The children knew he was sick, and they saw me holding him and thought that would make him better. somehow they thought i had superhuman powers like that. now they're going to know that i don't. crap. so, wait, how do you explain death to a five-year-old again? double crap. maybe they won't notice he's gone. i could tell them he's on vacation... that's right. a chick on vacation. believe it or not, that's easier for a kindergartener to grasp than death.

gotta go, planning really cool zoo activities.

beth

another week, another dollar

so, this past week started out horrible.

i had an all-day-seminar on monday. that actually wasn't so bad. i got to see people i hadn't in a long time. and i got to sleep in an extra hour. then i sat for eight hours and listened to not-so-interesting people talk... and talk... and talk. ok, maybe it was that bad.

then tuesday... tuesday.. hmm.. i don't remember tuesday. moving on.

wednesday, i got observed. joy of every student teacher's heart! and there was a sub. and the kids were outrageous. let's just suffice to say... not good. i did get good marks, but i think they were mainly from sympathy. oh well. in a couple months, i'll look at that paper, see those marks, and think to myself: man, i'm an awesome teacher. oh and i got to go to a student teacher appreciation banquet. that did put a good spin on my day. good food always does. i also went running with lori. i stretched this time. and it was good.

thursday... the only thing i remember about thursday is that it wasn't as bad as wednesday.

friday, i had to work. i know, i know, it's not one of my usual workdays.. but indiana wesleyan's graduation was on saturday, so friday was hectic (i work at a hotel, for those who haven't spoken to me in over a year, or ever). yay to more hours, though.

saturday is today. wow, i'm smart. hehe. after i dropped josh off at work at 7 a.m., i came back, had breakfast and my survival coffee, and started laundry. i did a lot of laundry. i finished my wedding thank-yous. i'm sure some people of the gambling type lost serious money because of it. ha, i finished, and you didn't think i could. etiquette says you get a year to finish your wedding thank-yous,because traditionally, people have a year to give you stuff. well, i never got anything after the wedding, but i can still use that rule, right? if so, then technically, i was like 31 days early. so there.
hmm.. what else did i do today? i ran again. and then collapsed on the front lawn. it felt wonderful. (don't worry, i stretched prior to the collapse). and then i did more laundry. i watched Finding Nemo. actually, i listened to it while i was doing the thank-yous.

i can't think of anything else.

enjoy my boring life!

beth

attention

i have officially mastered the html, or at least enough to get a comment link.
please leave comments. or else all my html efforts will have been in vain.
beth

color me happy

my online class is DONE! the weather is BEAUTIFUL! josh volunteered to work BOTH MORNING SHIFTS!! sigh. i don't remember being this happy... now if only i could enjoy this beautiful weather with my husband... five more weeks. five more weeks until graduation. five more weeks until josh quits the country inn. five more weeks until i can work weekdays instead of weekends. five more weeks until freedom. sweet blissful freedom.

yesterday i went running for the first time in a year. its been way over 24 hours now and i still cramp up if i sit too long. note to self: STRETCHING IS GOOD.

i also had an awesome picnic with the neighbors, who i had yet to spend significant time with due to my insane schedule. it was nice. i even got some color on this pasty skin o'mine. my nose still has the slightly tight sensation it gets when it's that rosy sun-kissed color. happy sigh.

well, that's all the happy nonsense i can come up with for now. but i still have 5 1/2 hours left in my shift so i'll prolly be back on. oh the boredom.

beth

this is for all those obsessed with tanks

Tanks - Presented by Flash Player

thank you paul

lesson of the day:
if the time of the blog has not yet occurred, then the said blog does not yet exist, no matter how many times you publish it.

moral of the story:
make sure your blog is set for the same time zone you happen to be residing in.

future lesson i wish to learn:
how does one obtain a comment link

example of my ironic tendencies:
asking for comments on how to obtain a comment link

hello?

ok, am i blog incompetent? why is there nothing showing up?! did i write that huge long blurb for absolutely nothing? maybe this will work... ugh.

is anybody out there?

hi!
this is my first ever blog, so forgive me in advance. this will be random, and rarely updated. basically, i'm bored.

so i'm sitting here at work (country inn) and i've already checked my email (three times, both accounts), my online banking (yes! still have money!), and read strong bad's new email (eh, so-so). what else is left? what else is out there? ahh... addictinggames.com. maybe i should be playing fishy, but no... i'm creating a blog. be grateful. greatful. whatever.

SO i'm student teaching in a kindergarten classroom. a.m. and p.m., 21 kids in each class. and names like shamesha and da'vontae. i love it. except for this one teacher... who finds it her place to cut of my legs at the knees my second week there. she basically calls me unorganized, unprofessional, and, well, a bad teacher. ugh. i find out later (after many days of agonizing stress and contimplations of dropping out of school five weeks before graduation) that she's an old, stubborn, stuck-in-her-ways woman who makes herself feel better by making sure everyone else knows how bad they are. or at least how they're not as good as her. i LOVE people like that! grrrr. 2 weeks down... 5 to go.

in other news.. one of my little kindergartners, dakota (i have FOUR dakotas...) got run over by a golf cart. how sad is that?? he had huge scrapes all over his body and a dislocated shoulder that his granpa had pushed in himself. :(

i can't think of anything else to say.

if you have any sites of interest that i could waste my time at, let me know. oh, and let me know if anyone is even reading these.

beth