Firstly: I am so sorry it has been so long since I've posted. A new years resolution is definitely going to be to blog more often. However, the blog may start to take more of personal feel to them, due to the majority of the audience being friends and family.
Secondly: Apparently people actually read this thing! Please let me know who's out there :) Please feel free to comment on this thing. It wants some attention baby!
So now...what has been going on!
Things have been wonderful at work! I am finding that I have such a great relationship with my kids, and they really do listen to me (some of the time at least). I've really realized how lucky I am to be in the situation I am in. I have 4 great kids on my caseload, as well as really happy and satisfied parents, and I have been able to leave work on time or early because I have been staying on top of my game during the day (I only have 4 students...once again). I'm really very lucky to be where I'm at.
I've also been maintaining my 4.0 GPA at grad school. I think this 1 class at a time thing is much more my style of learning, but I'm officially half-way done!
I'm just overall feeling a new sense of confidence in myself. I'm seeing myself really achieve in what I'm doing now...and I'm just feeling good about where my life is going!
So this is probably the final blog entry of the year, and I'm a freak for Christmas, this is dedicated to
the Holidays!
So, some of my students don't actually celebrate Christmas, but do recognize the traditions of it. So, I was able to do a little bit of the "Frosty", "Rudolph" and "Santa". The see it, they understand the story and why it is fun, but they don't connect it with religion---once again, the joys of only having 3 kids the majority of the days.
So most of our reading activities have been having to do with snowman, and Rudolph. We focused on two different versions of the Rudolph book and talked about it being the same or different. Then of course we did multiple picture walks and read-alouds. It was fun because they already knew the story so it was more focused on the comprehension...which is the hardest thing some days..
But..a great book for picture walks is...The Snowman--by Raymond Briggs
Seriously, the book is great! We really focused on it for about 2-3 weeks (only going through it about 1-2 times a week), but there are so many little mini-stories within a larger picture, that the kids can really see the fun and humor of what's happening. Plus the art is amazing!
Then of course, this week we watched the movie! Why not, right?!?
To keep in the reindeer theme, we talked about how Rudolph's nose made him special, and the different parts of us that are special. Today, as a final-hurrah to reindeer's, we created ornaments (or giant bracelets) of the kids as special reindeer. And it turned out really cute!
I took a black and white picture of the kids, and they were able to dot their noses with glitter glue, and paste their own, stenciled out (teacher-cut) reindeer horns! Then we pasted it on a black background, added a blue bottom so i could add a name and date/make it a snow globe (kinda..), and we pasted a very quickly improvised poem by yours truly:
Rudolph was special because of his red nose,
I am special too, as my picture shows.
I have _______, and I'm in ____ grade,
I hope you have a happy holiday!
And we filled in what we we said was special about ourselves. It really was a fun activity.
And then of course we just had to finish it all up with watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer...what else are you supposed to do on a Friday before winter break?
It's been great!
Until next time :)
Did I mention I am the new owner of a 2013 ford fiesta SE?
"FRANKIE" the FIESTA!!!
It's probably the coolest car I have ever thought of owning, and I got a lot of great things for a great price! The color is Blue Candy, and the pic def doesnt do it justice. It's more of green blue...depending on how you're looking at it. But it really is awesome!
Also...I'm sure nobody actually cares as much as I do about the name, but this was a big decision! I hadn't named a car since my old bug "Daisy" (rip), and I wasn't sure if I even wanted to name this one. I also couldn't decide if it was a boy or a girl car...it was a VERY hard decision! But...I'm so happy happy with my decision on this thing! It's so much fun to drive!
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