Rain!

We have been out of school for two days because of the weather! As a student, I would hope and pray that we would be let out anytime the weather got bad. As a teacher, I am mad that we have been out for two days. I have so many topics to cover and already not enough time to cover them in. Oh well, I guess I better get used to that. One good thing that has come from being out is that I have gotten to spend two extra quality days with my son and I have gotten to catch up on many things that I haven't been able to get done. I now completely understand a teacher's feelings towards being let out of school due to bad weather.

First Week!

I made it! My first week of teaching was awesome. I always knew that I wanted to try teaching as my profession and I always thought that I would love it. It wasn't until that first day that I knew I was going to love it. The whole experience was very overwhelming but I didn't get the least bit nervous until I shut my door and realized that all of these students were now looking up to me. I wasn't the child sitting in the desk anymore, I was the adult standing at the front of the classroom with the child's future in my hands. That was the main part that was overwhelming. I wasn't scared to get in front of them and teach them. I was more scared that I wouldn't teach them in a way that each student would absolutely learn to love mathematics the way that I do. Of course now I know that there are students that just hate mathematics, but it's my job to teach them how to accept it as a part of life. The first week also showed me just how hard this job was going to be. I had the children that tested me thinking that I would fail. In fact, I had to send a couple of girls to the office. That was very hard for me to do because all my life I never wanted the children not to like me, but I was not going to let them run over me. Of course they didn't talk to me the next day so I gave it a few days to cool down. I then explained to the whole class that I wasn't going to be taken advantage of. They all know now that I mean business.