Who ever thought teaching was a piece of cake...was DISHONEST!!

Well, we just finished week two of school and lets just say the honeymoon is over! The first few days were fun the kids were cute and they were behaving! I was excited to be in the classroom! I was teaching a few lessons here and there and I was still just trying to finish catching up on all the organizing and paperwork before open house.

After open house I felt relieved. I felt that things were finally organized and going well! My mentor teacher and I felt like we had a great class with a few troubles here and there but we were going to help those students! We wrote a few notes home and made a few phone calls about our concerns for the students and the parents seemed to respond well! They like the early communication, and liked the idea of staying open with one another to help the student succeed!

My students are very emotional and they cry all the time! I am not a mean teacher but some how I have made at least one if not more students cry everyday. As my dad says be nice to the little kids. I told him if they follow the rules and what is asked of them, then I would have to take their certificates away. (Certificates are given to the students when they are doing a good job! Every two weeks they get to use their certificates to buy things from the prize area). And I know I am not mean because as soon as the kid is done crying they come up and hug me and tell me they love me! Being a teacher is so rewarding!! (most of the time).

It was a positive week until THURSDAY then the NIGHTMARE began. We have kids who continue to be dishonest about everything, we have student that cries everytime she does something wrong and gets caught. We have two boys who have been fighting with anothr little boy in the classroom and on Thursday one of my students ended up with a HUGE bump on his head and since it happened ont he playground the Principal was involved trying to solve it. My mentor teacher and I are some how trying to teach while all of this is going on and then the nurse need to talk to me because something disturbing happened with one of my students and we are very concerned about him. Needless to say it was near impposible to teach anything at this time. Half the kids were learning while the other have were doing what was stated above. I spent my time trying to deal with all the formentioned problems and make a behavior log for all the students. It was a very stressful afternoon. Right before the stress started I was drawing a bird with the student one of my better drawings and some little stinker told me my drawing looked fun :-( but then the rest of the kids kept coming up telling me they liked my drawing and it was pretty!

Friday was a new day and was a little more low keyed...Thank goodness! I have two studends who are very good at German and are helping me learn a few words! On friday they taught me Ich liebe dich which means I love you. All it all my kids are super sweet but have their stinker lets stress Ms. Thompson moments!

Hopefully next week won't be as bad! Starting tomorrow I will be teaching the students Math and Health. Then I will start to take over science and reading! I am lookig forward to next week and my goal is to not making any kids cry!