… and I am a sweetie. ;)
This semester of student teaching has truly been a testament
to the adage “you are what you eat.” The amount that I eat, sleep, and workout
has drastically changed in the past few weeks. For those of you who don’t know,
I have one of the biggest cases of sweet tooth syndrome, possibly ever. And it
seems like every.single.day. in elementary school is someone’s birthday. I’m not
sure how that’s even possible, considering there are only about 115
students/teachers/faculty total in my school. It’s like cookies and cupcakes
and other sugary things magically appear on my desk every afternoon. I can’t do
it. I love stupid sugary things, but then I’m not hungry for actual food. And
with track starting to pick up at the height of student teaching, it’s catching
up to me. My body feels like BLEHH.
In regards to sleep, I really am making an effort at getting
more. I’ve upped my normal sleep schedule from 6 hours every night to about
8ish hours. It’s awesome. Although I still wake up after 6 hours of sleep… it’s
like my body is saying, “get up self! It’s time for the day!” And to that I
say, “NO! MORE SLEEPS!” It’s wonderful.
Again, with regards to working out, I have to repeat that I
have never been more mentally tired in my collegiate career. However, this is a
HUGE difference from being physically exhausted, which I have been many, many,
manyyyyy times. I’m still adjusting to handling the differences in exhaustion.
It’s just time to realize that I can’t do all of the things, although I’m very
(SUPER) reluctant to accept that. I do a lot of things still. It’s just hard to
accept that I can’t do everything 110% right meow the way that I would like to.
Instead, track training is taking somewhat of a backseat because I am facing
the fact that right now education and an internship via student teaching is a
more worthwhile investment (not to mention I’m paying thousands of dollars to
do it!).
And now, because you’re all dying to know, my first day of
teaching everything all day long was… good :). Nothing super great, nothing
super bad. Most of this is a result of the fact that elementary school is
constant madness filled with meetings, assemblies, adjusted schedules and
things of the like. So today was a good start. I’m sure that things will only
get better as I become more comfortable and as (hopefully!) my teacher finds
more things to do in the back of the class! Right now she seems (and must be)
so bored! So naturally, she finds things to do and goes a little crazy
sometimes when the kids aren’t paying attention. She still today would correct
their behaviors, but I’m not too worried about it. I’ve got a few weeks to
handle everything! I can’t wait :)
Other exciting things… blurb style.
- I am in the process of setting up a pen pal program for my kids. It should be pretty cool! They will be writing to another class in… wait for it… Nevada. That’s right folks, the Katerina-Jayna friendship strikes again in yet another stroke of genius! I hope our kids get as excited about this project as we are!
- I ran my first track work out of the season today and it was hard. Enough said.
- I just brought all my winter clothes back to school! It has been a brisk few days, and I’m excited to break out more sweater options. Not to mention that it should aid in my quest to not be an outfit repeater. I’m going 9 weeks strong people!!
- I put up a new bulletin board! I’m on yet another quest to drill sight words into my students’ brains and so I’ve created this beaut. The plan is to leave the board up for the month of October and make it progressively more creepy by adding spider webs and Halloween words such. Yippee!!! I’ll try and remember to record the progress for ya’ll!
- Finally, tonight I met again with a couple faculty advisors tonight! We discussed another meeting about the education mentoring program! I’m very excited! We are planning a get together/cookie party/information panel/breeze shooting adventure for Sunday, October 20th. (If you happen to be a BC Ed major, look for my charming (annoying) emails soon!)
- If your name is Cheyann and you creep my blog every night, prepare for a super special shout out in look of some ed major/transfer student help! :) Also, it was super nice to see you this morning!
Aaaaand on that note, I’m off to do some teacher lady
planning.
Until tomorrow,
Peace, love, and overexcitement,
Jayna
