terrible thursdays...

i dunno what it is about thursdays.. maybe it's too far from friday, and they're just exhausted from school, but today was a messs

morning went well (well relatively, besides a little bit of boredom, frustration, crumpled papers, and some tears-what else is new?) but then after recess those kids just acted like they forgot HOW to act.... we had a new students today (yes 1.5 months into school and i get a new student) she seems like a sweet girl, knows a good deal of spanish (learned in school) and is on court order where she can NOT see her father. i have been warned he might try and come to school, so to be careful, especially on places like the playground when he can just walk right up to us.. super

but anyways. after recess those kids just went nuts! TALK TALK TALK TALK TALK i literally almost startd crying in class because NO ONE was paying attention, i'm spekaing in spanish so of COURSE half of them don't understand me, and the lesson is complicated so they HAVE to pay attention!

i'm going to a dual language training this week (mon tuesday) in chicago, we leave sunday, which sucks b/c my kids will have a sub for two days, which might not sound like a lot but it is a LOT of things that aren't going ot be learned, and a LOT of time for them to go crazy and mess up and ruin my perfectly organized wonderful classroom :) (yes i'm ocd, and that helps me be a better teacher ) in fact. today i put tape on the floor to let the students know where their desks should be. because they start there EVERY morning.. but by the end of the day, they are alll so crowded and smooshed together and messed up even i get stressed. so today worked much better!

but i stayed at school til 7:15 planning for next week and trying to get things ready for the sub so things can run as smoothly as possible! we shall see how that goes!

but back to the training, i really hope i learn something about teaching in a dual language classroom b/c it is such a foreign idea and so new that no one really knows how to make it work! so i hope we find some great information (even though we have little resources)

but it's off to bed. i'm pooped and i have to get sleep so that i can have a good evening tomorrow celebrating one of my good friends last nights here (he unfortuantely was the only ONE out of 75 of us Kansas City teach for america corps members who did not get placed... which i think sucks a lot, and it's shitty that this stupid recession happened and caused people who though they were hired since last OCTOBER and yet they move and then have to move back home with no job and a lot of bills.. but alas what can they do, it's the districts fault righT?