… okay, I know I’m really not the worst blogger ever, but
I’ve been pretty stinking bad this week. It has been a very crazy, busy week. Track
practices have finally picked up which is very exciting, but also highly
inconvenient. Our practice time is usually at 3:30 or 4:15. I can’t leave
school until 3:45 and I usually need to stay behind so that I can be prepared
and planned out for upcoming lessons. I’ve also been attempting to have a
social life (ehhh), and have been an avid Charger cheerleader in the final
matches of volleyball season and for upcoming wrestling season. (I can’t wait
for wrestling!!) (And basketball too :))
Okay, anyway I really have been making an effort the past
few days to get the blog up. Here’s the proof…. The drafts of Wednesday and
Thursday’s blogs. I had even started on today’s already!
Wednesday:
Our journal prompt today was to write about your favorite
book. Here are blurbs from two of my favorite writers, Breakfast Boy and The
Ranter.
“My favorite boob is Green Eggs an Ham. It is funy. I wont
to eat Greer eggs. Sam I am is funy!”
“My favorite book is Click Clack moo Cows that tpye. I dont
know how cows know how too spell and tpye? It was funny when they wrote a
letter too farmer brown. Saying were closed no milk too day and it said to eggs
too.”
Thursday:
HAPPY WEEN!
“Halloween is the funest holiday because you get to where
costume’s and you get candy!”
My kids are so stinking sugared up. Good thing we didn’t
plan on learning much today!
Friday:
Apos’trophe’s
This week we have been learning about apostrophes.
Apostrophes are a hard concept for second graders so we have spent a lot of
time talking about ownership, singular words and plural words. (We have not
addressed contractions yet.) The kids are catching on, but there has also been
a hilarious amount of apostrophe abuse in our journals.
Despite how crazy these kids can make me…. I do love second
grade.
Here’s what else happened today…
We had to do the mass today for All Saint’s Day. The kids
did an awesome job of reading and singing and participating, but especially
reading. There were some hard words like Solemnity, extraordinary, and
surprisingly enough Lamb and pure were tricky for them to spit out. But they
practiced and made me very proud today :)
The cutest faithful journal ever…
“I contit wate for November 1st it is all saints
day we have mass saints day is very fun. Some days’ are fun like Halloween and
crismis so is sanse day to! Saints day is all abawt all the saints that follow
Gods 3 cmandmits. Saints are holle pepolle in the world and they blev in God.”
Also, one of my students (Breakfast Boy) has been journaling
about a pet lizard that he got for his birthday. Today, Breakfast Boy (who sits
in the front row) quietly gets my attention and says, “Miss Specht, I have to
tell you something.” Then he proceeds to tell me, “We found out that my
lizard’s not a boy; it’s a girl.” I asked how he found out and he replied, “She
had babies.” So now instead of one birthday lizard, my Breakfast Boy has 7.
When I asked, he said that they were keeping them for now and that he changed
the lizard’s name to Mrs. Leatherhead.
It’s so hard not to laugh out loud sometimes. It was
impossible when he told me that the new name was Mrs. Leatherhead.
So! I have exciting news! Next week is my last full week! Of
teaching absolutely everything! So that we be really cool! Also kind of sad.
It’s crazy how fast this semester has gone by!
Speaking of almost being done, I am almost (almost) done
with all of my Praxis testing. I take the last part of the test tomorrow
morning at 8. Say a prayer for me please!
Until Monday,
Peace, love, and surprise sex changes,
Jayna
