No snow dance

I must have been the only person in school today hoping for no snow this weekend! All the students were doing their little snow dances. When you're at that age, snow just meant fun times for you. I just don't want to have to deal with the shoveling or having to commute in that type of weather. Plus, I had a lot of stuff I wanted to go out and do and I don't want to be snowed in.

This past week has been exhausting! I always have to be "sitting" on the kids, if you lose control for one minute with my class, it's all downhill. It's sorta funny, every time I talk to some of the other teachers, they always tell me that they feel bad for me for having my placement, just because it's such a tough environment. Eh, you just roll with the punches. It's always up and down all day, but at least I'm learning. You learn quick that what worked for a few minutes probably won't for the next. It really makes you develop this internalized stress alert.

I went on my first field trip on Wednesday. It was to UPenn to see this "Dance Asia" show. Honestly, I wasn't amazed by it. I don't think there were enough performances, too much talking. I forgot how tiny the seats on the bus were! I had half of my ass hanging off the seat the whole time. It was a long bus ride but it was nice being able to talk to a few of the kids. Luckily, they were pretty well behaved for the most part. But I was definitely constantly counting heads! Totally random but one of the girls was telling me a story about going to the bakery. Apparently she and her mother went to pick up her bday cake and her mother refused to accept the cake because it was inappropriate. There was supposed to be a little girl on the cake and the legs on the girl were spread out too far (as she told me this story, she spread her arms out really far to show me). I didn't really know what to say in response. I'm not even sure that she knew what the inappropriateness was about. But I can't imagine a bakery making an inappropriate bday cake for a little girl?

I had to lecture a 5th grader today about respect. I'm sure he was cursing me off in his head but as if I care, he's not my student. I wasn't yelling at him or anything. While walking down our hallways, he started throwing his lunch bag in the air and completely knocked off most of my students' lanterns! I was so annoyed!! It took time to get them up there and they were all over the floor along with the paperclips. I knew that if my kids came back from prep and saw them all over the floor, they'd be really upset. It was frustrating because I couldn't find a custodian to get me a ladder. I ended up having to use a desk and hopping to get them back up. Afterwards, I think I became even more annoyed because I had a lot of stuff I needed to get done but couldn't.

Oh yeah, I went into the lottery pool with the other teachers. I figured that if they won it and I wasn't part of it, I'd kick myself. So cross your fingers! I'm also having my first observation next Wednesday. Wish me luck! I'm not sure what time yet because I have to coordinate with the other student teacher working there.