Just Another Day

Student teaching owns my life. My fiancee, family, and friends own my heart.

Student teaching is halfway done...only 7 weeks before I am done. Crazy. I am in love with my students. All 23 of them. But I am exhausted. I want to plan my wedding. I want to focus on me, my health, my relationship with Richard, and most importantly, my relationship with God.

Sitting in the teacher's lounge for lunch earlier this week, one teacher tells me to start writing my book now. They all wish they had written the crazy things that happen, the super adorable things that children say and do, as well as the absurd things some of the crazies we call parents do. A blog is the next best thing.

Even if no one reads this, I can have a place to spill my heart and my day.

And then we reach today. The super busy and insane day. The first day I was nowhere near getting everything done with my students that I had planned. Music. Spring pictures. Measuring to the nearest inch, half inch, quarter inch. Ugh. This concept alone stole our entire afternoon. How are they so clueless about fractions?!? It was awful. An utter fail of a lesson if I ever saw one. However, my host teacher also couldn't reach them. And the sense of failure has lifted a bit.

I will leave you with two favorite quotes of student teaching so far, though many have already escaped the very spacey place that is my brain lately.

"Miss Umphrey, I just walked by you and you smell like cotton candy!" -S.A.

"Did you type all these sentences for us?!?" "Yes." "WOW! Thank you so much!" -C.G.