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I’ve been going to lunch with my kids all week because their behavior was so bad that I felt I needed to be an extra pair of eyes and ears in the lunchroom. While I was a huge fan of Jamie Oliver’s miniseries on cafeteria lunches in the US, I hadn’t had much experience with public school lunches since, well, I was in the 4th grade.
While the food itself isn’t always what I would select as the most appealing, what makes me sad is the small percentage of my class that chooses flavored milk. I have 25 students right now, so it makes…
One full week of school down, and I can tell you this. Despite all technical difficulties, I am already in love with all 24 little (well, some not so little) bodies that sit in my classroom. We’re still working on listening and following directions, especially “Stop Talking”. I did feel a bit like one of…
read more »It’s the day before school starts. As a kid, I was always super excited for the first day of school. Now that I’m a teacher, the feeling is a bit different. Perhaps, to be fair, it won’t always feel like an all-encompassing fear and panic. It may just be that being a brand new teacher…
read more »A reflection today during Round Zero, TFA’s lesson planning boot camp, made me think seriously about my kids from this summer. The reflection was about the tendency of children to insult another child by calling them “Little girl” or “Little boy”. I had one student in particular who used this, Jazzy. Jazzy was one of…
read more »Originally posted July 13 Dear IKEA, This is hard for me to write, since we haven’t been together all that long. I had admired you for so long from afar, ever since you crossed the Atlantic a few years ago from those Swedish shores. My friends told me how wonderful you were, and there you…
read more »Originally posted July 5 It’s been a while since I’ve actually had a weekend to do exactly what I wanted to do, and I’m afraid that while the original intention was to actual make some phone and skype calls, I wanted to sleep. Or rather, needed to. I spent Friday evening enjoying some time with…
read more »Originally posted June 26 Looking back over this week, all I can think about was how rough it was. But in all honestly, that was mostly just Friday. Friday was a complete mess of a day, from start to finish, both from a teacher point of view and probably student point of view. But let’s…
read more »Originally posted June 20 85 hours of work, 20 hours of sleep during the week and that again this weekend — that in a small nutshell is what my schedule has been like this first week of teaching. I’m off to meet with my CMA aka Corps Member Adviser to hear her thoughts on the…
read more »I’ve finally gotten internet in my house here in Nashville and am incredibly impressed with the changes that have been made for the new Teachforus.org that I’m going to make sure to post my entries moving forward, as well as some entries from Institute that never made it on here. It seems silly when I…
read more »There’s a lot of things I should be doing, blogging sort of falling towards the bottom of that list rather quickly. However, whenever I update I end up with a lot of spam comments to moderate and frankly, it’s been a lot easier to just post on blogspot.com If you DO care to read about…
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