scuba gear is off...
I remember Ann saying that teaching at first was going to be a constant battle to keep your head above water. I totally agree with that statement, and I've got to admit that I had the snorkle out for this first month. I remember Landon saying early on how he was ready for his mindset to finally shift out of survivor mode. Well an epiphany occurred two days ago. I got caught up!!! It's weird but for the first time I actually brainstormed a little bit and got to try and be creative for my upcoming lessons. I'm not saying I wasn't trying to be creative with my previous lessons, but I felt so much pressure to take care of all these other things that I think I kind of went half-speed for some of them.
It was also nice to have yesterday be a 60% school day for the kids, and then today be the first parent-teacher conference day. I was actually reallly excited to meet a lot of the parents; mostly because I thought it would give me a good opportunity to crack down on the ones I've had a lot of discipline problems with. Well, all of those parents didn't show up...haha....but the ones who did blew me away with the amount of dedication that they had for their children. A lot of them were single mothers, and they were so positive and encouraging. I can see why their children are like they are. Almost all of them asked if they could have some tip/strategies/workbooks to take home to help their kids in math. I was like.....I'll give you a call tonight with a list of resources or give your child some take home bonus material tomorrow. It was awesome. I did, however, have one parent give me the "size up" look and ask me how old I was. You know what the "size up" look is......they start off looking at your eyes and then look you all the way down and back up...kind of like as if they were saying..."is that all?"....I almost started laughing...but I held it in and calmly responded with....23.
The last piece of news I wanted to talk about was that we finally played our first game this past Monday night. We won 50-12. I'm not going to lie...I think we could compete with some Delta High School teams....ddadams you heard it first....don't underestimate the Trojans. It was so much fun too; I never imagined that I would like coaching so much. I guess I might be singing a different tune if we had lost though but oh well.
It was also nice to have yesterday be a 60% school day for the kids, and then today be the first parent-teacher conference day. I was actually reallly excited to meet a lot of the parents; mostly because I thought it would give me a good opportunity to crack down on the ones I've had a lot of discipline problems with. Well, all of those parents didn't show up...haha....but the ones who did blew me away with the amount of dedication that they had for their children. A lot of them were single mothers, and they were so positive and encouraging. I can see why their children are like they are. Almost all of them asked if they could have some tip/strategies/workbooks to take home to help their kids in math. I was like.....I'll give you a call tonight with a list of resources or give your child some take home bonus material tomorrow. It was awesome. I did, however, have one parent give me the "size up" look and ask me how old I was. You know what the "size up" look is......they start off looking at your eyes and then look you all the way down and back up...kind of like as if they were saying..."is that all?"....I almost started laughing...but I held it in and calmly responded with....23.
The last piece of news I wanted to talk about was that we finally played our first game this past Monday night. We won 50-12. I'm not going to lie...I think we could compete with some Delta High School teams....ddadams you heard it first....don't underestimate the Trojans. It was so much fun too; I never imagined that I would like coaching so much. I guess I might be singing a different tune if we had lost though but oh well.
posted by UTOM at 4:54 PM
2 Comments:
Congratulations on the win and losing the snorkle. It sounds like your old energy level is back. Awesome!
haha - bring it on. actually - our kids are talented as hell ... as for our coaches, they about as good as kool-aid pickles.
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