Ok...I'm in the home stretch with exactly 14 days till I'm back in Maryland! I'm so excited to be warm--Oh yeah and see my family and friends and Nathan of course! It's 39 degrees now...clouds covered up the sun so it got chilly.
As for my report on my life as a teacher, it starts with a tooth story. The 5th and 6th graders came down today from 12:30-1:00pm to read a folk story and talk about the lesson that the story taught. My students were angels on the carpet. It might have been due to the fact that I gave a long "reminder" about expected behavior when the big kids came in. It could also have to do with the fact that I sat behind them with my "no nonsense" face on glaring into their souls so that they didn't have a temptation left in them. Or, it could be because they are just amazing because I'm such an awesome teacher that my aura of awesomeness and angelic nature passes on to them through the air. Either way. I was impressed.
Now, enough background knowledge, let me tell you the tooth story. They were sitting nicely giving their best listening behavior when in the middle of one story student J (of course! I should just make a blog all about student J) blurts out as he turns around to my glare "Another tooth came out". He holds it between pointer and thumb and gives me a smile that shows his tongue sticking out of the empty spot. I give him an envelope for the lost tooth and tape it up. Then, I give him the "I lost a tooth" sticker. He puts his tooth envelope away and comes back to the carpet. The "big kids" go on trying to finish the story and my students are not looking at the pictures but closed in on J. Staring like he's a live heart exhibit. I say "Ok. Let's pause the story for a second. I'm going to give everyone 1 minute," (it turned into 10 seconds), "to look at Josh's missing tooth." I gave the 10 second countdown and they went back to looking at the pictures and being angelic. Too funny. Later at the end of the day during snack, I said that I haven't lost any teeth so they all must be old people loosing all their teeth like that. They giggled and J says with his top lip covering his top teeth, "Some old people talk like this." Linda and I couldn't help but crack up.
Other than my cute stories about lost teeth, nothing special has happened this week so far. I only have 5 report cards to finish. With the exception of two students, all my students have passed their Kindergarten standards! It really is the home stretch. I can't wait to watch the new Karate Kid movie, eat junk, and pass out Kindergarten "diplomas" with my students next Wednesday. Hopefully sometime this week or next we can squeeze in a Skype visit with my family. My students are all really curious about my mom and dad and siblings and Nate. I showed two of my students, one day after school, (using google earth) how to get from Marshall, Alaska, to my house in Maryland. I said, "Yeah, I mean I have to walk all the way there too! It's going to take me a couple months!" Student K said "Nooo...you'll fly there in a plane Ms. Andrea! It will only take a day." Then, I said, "Ok...fine you're right. I'll take a plane home. But it actually takes 2 whole days for me to get home!" They just starred at me mouths open in awe.
Happy Tuesday!
Love,
Edah
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