Well, we made it through one whole week with no snow days! However, that did not last for long. The snow has returned! We had a little bit Monday night but not enough to cancel school. Wednesday though, school was dismissed 2 hours early and by about 3:15 or so, the snow was pouring! It fell hard and fast and the roads got bad quickly. It was very pretty though if you were inside with a heater like I was
The weather people say it feels like 10 degrees outside though. Brrrr! Thursday is snow day number 11 this year; 2 in December, 8 in January and 1 in Feb. This is the first one of February but I wouldn’t be surprised if we have a couple more before it gets warm!I have been very bad about staying in touch with my familia and keeping them up to date. This is has not been on purpose I promise! So here are some more updates as they pop into my head
1) Full time teaching has started and I love it! I love teaching all day. I don’t love having to do insanely detailed plans but I won’t have to do that forever as my mentor teacher encouragingly reminds me
The kids and I are still working out some kinks along the road but it’s a learning process and I think I’m learning more every day than they are haha. But I’m starting to figure them out. 5th graders can be tricky!2) The job fair was Tuesday. I applied with 2 districts this past weekend and then talked to them at the fair yesterday. My ELL endorsement got a lot more attention than my K-6 certification but that’s good b/c that’s why I did ELL. Well, that and because I love my ELL babies
I talked to a lady from Metro who said there was about a 98% chance she could find me an ELL job! Turns out, this lady is in charge of all hiring for K-4 schools in Metro. I think that’s pretty good!3) I PASSED THE ELL PRAXIS!!!! Officially titled,”Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages”, I had to pass this test in order to be able to apply for the ELL Endorsement for my teaching license. Normally this wouldn’t have made me so nervous, but I only had one ELL class haha. The other 4 tests were pretty much covered throughout my time in a teacher’s ed program, but Lipscomb’s degree is designed to be a Master’s Program. So, I only took some Spanish and an Intro to Teaching Foreign Languages class. Thankfully, one of my mentor teachers had a book left from her program that she let me use to study for the test! In TN 143 is passing on this test and I made significantly better than that! Such an answer to prayers!!
4) Some prayer requests that I would like to put in your thoughts: A teacher at my school was diagnosed with cancer recently. She has two young children and is under going treatment. This is a hard time for anyone, as we know from experience. Also, the lady whose basement I live in found out last week that her mom has stage 4 of some kind of cancer. She left town and is with her mom now and will be doing lots of traveling in the next few weeks. This just served to remind me that no matter what I’m stressed about, people we encounter every day are hurting and we may not even know it.
5) I’ve been coming down with some kind of yucky sinus crud since last Friday. It would really be great if it went away. I’m tired of coughing and sneezing and sitting over the vaporizer! Plus I miss the gym :/ I feel so much better when I can work out!!
6) Met with my portfolio supervisor yesterday and am working on that as well. She said I use this blog in my communications section to show that I could create one to keep parents up to date about what’s going on in class. Or that I could use it somehow for class. However, this only works if I’m communicating with others about life and what’s going on at school… So, if you could comment every once in a while, that’d be great!!! I’d love to be able to use this in my portfolio! After all, I’m not that tech savy, but I try
I think that’s all for now. I came home from school today and cranked out 4 lesson plans for next week. I have many more to go and a unit to complete. I’m planning for the snow day tomorrow to be an uber productive day. That will be made much easier I don’t feel like my head is going to explode from sinus pressure! And if I can get back to the gym!
I’m sure I’ll find more to write about tomorrow!~Good night
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