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A few years ago, clean up time was starting to bug me. It was getting harder to get the kids to finish cleaning their stuff to come sit down. I thought about using some clean up song on a kids’ music cd, but decided that would be too irritating to listen
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This has been, as I’ve mentioned, a slightly more difficult start to the school year than I’ve had in recent years. However, it feels like it’s about me rather than the kids. This class is very sweet, with no major behavior problems, unlike last year.
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Today was better. The weather was perfect — cool in the morning, sunny and not too hot later — and I had a prep period while the children were at gym, so that helped a lot. I only have preps Monday and Wednesday this quarter, so last week with no school
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I did wake up with another migraine, but it went away and hasn’t come back. My morning crier came back, and true to his word, wasn’t scared, and didn’t cry at all. He even rode the bus to school with no troubles. My end-of-the-morning crier, on the other
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It’s funny teaching with other adults in the room; they are watching you! This rarely bothers me, but today I feel like my new assistant teacher and my new Americorps volunteer got to see me starting to lose my cool. Which is embarrassing. It was a good
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The afternoon teacher and I went out for lunch at the end of the school year and planned out our themes for the 2012-2013 school year. I thought I would share them with you, so here goes: August: Family and About Me September: Community Helpers October:
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I’m not really into cute. My blog isn’t filled with cute ideas. I’m more interested in children’s literature, curriculum that actually has content, and making the most of the time I have with the children than I am in cute stuff. And I didn’t go into
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One morning, not long ago, one of my brightest little boys made my day. His bus arrives early, so every morning he peeks in through the window on our door, sometimes jumping up and down with excitement. If he sees one of us moving around the room, getting
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Yesterday during morning meeting I commented on how well the kids have done with learning the alphabet. “That was your job this year, and you did it!” Then a very serious boy raised his hand and said, “did we do all that stuff up there?” “What stuff,
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We made the heart handprints, and they turned out wonderfully. We started making them on Monday, but even the ones we did Tuesday dried quickly enough to be able to write down the children’s quotes for their mothers, and send them home that day. I used
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Yesterday we celebrated Gingerbread Day in our classroom, and the children were delighted. We read three versions of the classic story (over two days), and then we decorated gingerbread men with squiggly white frosting. (One girl said, “this is my mom”
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Almost every day, I have been sitting in the block corner at centers time with my little blocks-challenged friend. (On the days when I haven’t been there with him, my special ed teacher has been.) And each day, he has learned a little bit more. Let’s
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One of my developmentally delayed sweethearts is a little boy who knows all the letters, and a lot of sounds. He knows numbers, colors, shapes, and that sort of thing. It’s obvious that he has difficulty with verbal communication — he will repeat what
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During morning meeting today, the phone rang, and it was for me. My Americorps volunteer took over with the class, while I talked to a woman from a non-profit organization. I applied for a grant there earlier in the fall, for bus money and outdoor clothing
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1. You get to wear silly hats. 2. You get to do things like wear purple every day for a week (it’s Purple Week!). 3. It’s never blood on your hands; it’s always marker. 4. Hugs. Lots of them. 5. You get to read awesome, funny books out loud every day.
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