Not gonna lie...

So, before I started teaching, I seriously thought it would be a piece of cake. Boy was I wrong!I guess I thought, I love children, I would love to have summers off... I knew about standards and didn't think it would be a big deal to teach them to younger students. The thing is, you don't just teach standards, you have to make them somewhat fun so the students will actually retain the information! How would you make comparing and ordering numbers fun?? It takes a lot of time, thought and effort to put a lesson together! Please do not get me wrong, I LOVE my job and can't see myself doing anything else. It is very rewarding seeing all of my time and energy put into a child, especially when they have the "light bulb" moment and get it!

In our journal article today I asked them to tell me two adjectives to describe school, then tell me what they needed me to do to make school a more enjoyable place. Pretty much all of my adjectives were fun and boring. I asked them how school could be fun and boring at the same time and they said it just was.

Some of my students have a really hard time getting all of their books in their desk so I decided to clean a few of these desk out today.. Well, I found a journal article torn out and crammed into the back of one desk. It read, "School would be more fun if you would not make me sit by (two other children's names) I told you Mrs. Smalley I wanted to sit by (another child's name)! I laughed SO hard and when this little boy got back from exploratory, I told him I found his journal article and got the note. Little things like this make all of my hard work worth it! I NEVER know what is going to come out of their little mouths..but they definitely say something every day to make me laugh!