I've been so BUSY!!! Hopefully not neglectful?! This ending is worth it!

Hello, everyone! Greetings from the not-snowy-anymore-but-oh-boy-is-it MUDDY place. Blah. Blah. Blah. MUD.

I am really enjoying my job, now! I have been the same teacher for the last week and a half. I will get to be her for about another week, and then I will have to turn my classes over to a "real" teacher. I am kinda sad about that! I feel like I just kind of got in there and started doing something! Hahahaha, but I kind of expected that.

The kids are sooo cute--they really want me to stay. One kid said, "Just go get your certification!" Yeah, like I can just stroll down to Walmart and pick one up..... Then they swore up and down they would be so bad, the new teacher would want to leave. Of course I talked them out of THAT! But it felt good to be so "wanted". One of the support teachers I am working with gave me the sweetest thank you note and a box of chocolates. (Godiva!)

There is no school here Friday, so I am rushing around trying to finish up Romeo and Juliet so the kids don't have to take a test with a teacher they don't know. The new teacher will get to "relax" a little with the kids while they work on their big creative extension project---they have to choose and act out a scene from Romeo and Juliet, and identify the dramatic elements: What kind of speech it is, who they are speaking to, about, tone, etc.....

Today I taught "Apostrophe". I've never heard of this one, or else I just don't remember it. It is when a character addresses an object or person that isn't there. For example, the song "Twinkle, twinkle little star" is an example of apostrophe because the singer is wondering about the star to the star. We went through a bunch of examples throughout Romeo and Juliet and then this one really shy and quiet kid in the front row pipes up and asks if talking to God is apostrophe. I thought that was an excellent question, so I posed it to the class. Everyone agreed: Talking to God is NOT apostrophe because he is THERE, he LISTENS and TALKS BACK.

Later on in the day I was working with a special ed teacher on some different kids. It turns out that the student who asked about God just lost his dad a few weeks ago. It was then that I remembered how much he smiled when he heard everyone's answer....

AMEN!!!!