First Week in 3rd Grade!

My first week went GREAT!

I love third grade! :)

My cooperating teacher is actually one of my pledge sisters mom's which is great! She is an awesome teacher!

My third grade class is a great group of students. Third grade is completely different than first grade. They are a lot more independent.

Wednesday I observed. I worked on knowing the students names and figuring out how the class goes. That day did end up a little interesting. One student on the playground kicked the ball over the fence. He went to go get it (which they are not allowed to do). The school is by a pretty busy road (as busy as roads in Arkadelphia can get). He almost got hit by a car.... AHHHH. Wow.

Lets just say the first day was kinda intense. ha

Thursday was a good day too. I read to the students that day, and I got told that the students were excited that I was there. It made me feel good!

Friday I got more involved. I graded more papers. I gave the students a test to figure out their reading level. I also planned my lessons for this week!

This next week we are learning about the respiratory system in science! We are doing some great hands on activities.. Also I am giving Homework for the first time.. Don't cringe when you hear that word though. It will hopefully be fun but meaningful! I will tell you tomorrow about what they have to do tomorrow!

This weekend was great too! Nathan decided to come down and hang out since he didn't have to work. It was a wonderful surprise half way through my week. Friday he had to work until 8 so I hung out at the apartment, and got my lesson plans done. That night the Kappas (men's social club at Ouachita... I am a lil sis) had Tiger tunes practice because it is this week starting thursday. I am in their show, and so I went to their "all nighter" so practice and encourage them. I also made them several muffins to get them going since they would be practicing from 6-1am. I was at their practice for a while until Nathan showed up. We hung out for a while. Saturday we watched the Arkansas/Auburn football game... YAY AUBURN... :) We then headed to Jose's the best mexican restaurant in Hot Springs!! This morning we went to church and ate lunch. He then headed back.

It was a great week/weekend! I can't wait for this next week! Hope it's been a great week for you too.

Tiger Tunes is less than 4 days away :)

Weekend Recap!

Sorry about this being such a delay on an entry. My photos would never upload, so I kept having to wait. Friday was a great last day with the students. They were so good this past week and taught me so much. After school I took my lil sis through the big brother/big sister program to Hot Springs. We went to try on flower girl dresses for her! We did not find one while we were there, but I did find one online that i LOVE! I am sooo excited!

Here is a picture of her eating. We went to Jose's a much loved mexican restaurant in Hot Springs. She ordered Nachos... Well she ended up picking the cheese off and dipping the chips in the cheese dip.. OH WELL. Here she is eating a Sopapilla! She loved it!

Saturday I slept in and hung out. My friend Amy came down to hang out. It was nice to relax after such a busy week.

Sunday I woke up early to go to LR to meet Nathan and his dad for the LR Air Show. Before I left Amy left a little before. We get a phone call asking for her help. An elderly man had fallen walking out to his front yard to get his newspaper. Amy needed help getting him back up. We ran out there to help him. We walked him inside to a gorgeous house. He lived all alone, and was listening to the radio this morning. It broke my heart when he said that he had no one we could call because they were all gone :(

The air show was a blast. It was very long, but cool.

There was one flier that did a flight for his sister who battled breast cancer. He flew do the song "I can only imagine." He made a heart, ribbon, and cross (pictured below).
This me trying to take a cool picture in Nathan's glasses... didn't turn out as neat as a I thought.
Here we are at the air show waiting for the Thunderbirds to perform.
Inside an airplane...
Outside the plane!
It was a really fun weekend.

Yesterday and today I have had class all day (9-3) BLAH... It was fun seeing all the other student interns that we hadn't seen in a while.

Tomorrow starts my first day in 3rd grade. I will just be observing again, and finding out how the teacher runs her classroom. I am excited because the teacher is one of my pledge sisters moms!!!

I can't wait to go to 3rd grade! Be looking for a post about how my first day went!

ROACHES!!!

So I finally decided to blog! Ha. After almost a week of non blogging. I have decided to blog about my weekend/week. This weekend I went to Dallas

for the Kappas outing. We headed there, and went to six flags on saturday. It was SO much fun. Yes most of you know I am not a roller coaster rider, but I did ride a few... Especially The Batman!!!! :) It was wonderful.

That night we went to the Rangers game. They won :)
I of course didn't take any pictures of myself, but I took several pictures of other people.
They stole my camera while I was on the batman!

I got back and mentally prepared myself for my solo teaching week (I am completely on my own. The teacher is still there, but doesn't intervene.) Monday was HORRIBLE. I left crying. I could not get the students under control. They walked all over me. That night I called Nathan bawling. Ha. I decided that Tuesday I was going to be "mean." I wasn't take nobodies crap. Ha! I walked in Tuesday, and was nit picking every little thing they did. AND IT WORKED! I had several students test me, but I wasn't taking crap from nobody. Tuesday was a better day! Wednesday was a whole lot better. They were listening more, and the pace of the lessons were going quick.

Wednesday night Kate and I had an adventure! Kate goes to have a cookie and finds a roach. We decided it was war. We went to Wal-Mart, and got the bait. Here are some pictures from this adventure! We came back from Wal-Mart and found 2 roaches on the wall hooked together...(in other words.. making babies). AHHHH At the end of the blog there is a lovely video of the adventure!

I love the pictures on the back of the Combat killer! I also found out that La Cucaracha (the song) stands for Roaches... Wow. You learn something new everyday!

Today was a great day too. They finally are listening. I hardly had anybody missing free time, or try to goof off. They weren't constantly looking around the room to see if Mrs. Prince was there. I had several students tell me today that I was a GREAT teacher. It made me smile. They said I was the best teacher they had. I also had several each day tell me that I am pretty. Ha. They are so funny. The best moment today was when we were talking about s-blends at the end of words. We were on the word Clasp. I asked if anybody knew what a clasp was. I told them that several girls wear this (I was thinking a necklace) One boy raised his hand and said, "A Bra." OH MY GOSH! The students went crazy. They started giggling and I thought they would never stop. Ha. It was a great comic relief. But he was correct bras do have clasps on them! ha. I then explained that I was thinking of a necklace, and they forgot about the whole situation! :)

After lunch I felt like i was having an esophogiam spasm (thanks The Holiday) and wouldn't be able to make it the rest of the day. I struggled up until after recess. I still was struggling though, and had severe pain in my chest.. (probably just heart burn.) One boy looked at me when I was holding my chest, and he said AH... Are you ok??? Ha. He was so worried. It was a great day when I thought it wouldn't be because there was a pep rally today! :)

I decided to delight you with a little video from last night. Sorry I have been a horrible blogger this week/weekend. It has been a crazy, but exciting week! I have probably grown more this week then I have all semester! :)

I'm ready for a relaxing weekend. Wednesday we start our next student teaching. I'll be in 3rd grade! :)

** So I tried uploading the video.. Um. It isn't working. I'll try later!

Sorry for the delay

So Thursday and Friday's post will have to wait until Sunday. I am headed out of town for the weekend. Headed to Dallas for the Kappa Chi (men's social club) outing!

I need a break from Arkadelphia before my big SOLO week! (teaching by myself!)

I'll update on the weekend hopefully Sunday! :)

Have a great weekend!