Holy cow! It's been a month since I've started teaching. I am loving every single minute of it too. I have overcome many challenges such as getting the students to put their names on their papers, girl drama, tattling, physical violence, in school suspensions and nouns.
My biggest challenge right now is nouns. They just don't get it. It is a 3rd grade concept too. I broke down this morning grading papers. I had to quit half way through. It just kills me tht after reading the directions 3 times, working 6 or 7 problems together and then going over the directions one more time - I have 9 students who completely did the worksheet wrong. I don't know what to do. I am trying to put together a noun cheat sheet so that they can look at that, but I don't think it is going to help. Dr. Dub (an old professor) suggested to use a graphic organizer to break down why nouns are nouns. Idk. Maybe I'll try both.
Volleyball is off to a 500 start. We got 4th/12 at Beatrice we beat Columbus I believe, lost to Pius, GINW and Skutt. It was some great volleyball. We beat Blair last Tuesday. Lost to Gretna on Thursday. It was heartbreaking, but Gretna is GOOD. We went to Norris yesterday and smoked Blair AGAIN, but had some mental errors and lost to Norris. I wanted to beat them so that we would have a chance to play Gretna again. Oh well, we then beat Ralston soundly.
I am spending the day at my parents, so it has been relaxing with the new kitchen and beautiful weather, windows open, ribs smoking and soon to be beer drinking.
I need to keep this updated better!
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