We have the creepy-crawlies!

So, this first week back to work has been a long one, to say the least. The kids are so hyper! They just want to run and scream....very annoying. And for some reason they think it's OK now to dump toys on the floor and just walk away. It takes a lot to really annoy me, but these children are finding a way to do it!

On a better note, I have implemented a few changes in the classroom...adding more literacy activities, and some more math. I'm really pleased with the results. The kids have actually seemed to be paying attention to what we're doing, and participating. Maybe what we were doing before was too easy. Whatever it is, it's working. I stole my friend Danielle's idea of the News of the Day, which is just a child telling me something they did the day before, and me turning it into a sentence that I write while the children watch. Yesterday it was, "Aaron had a dream about fire." The kids loved it! It continues to amaze me how the simplest things can teach children so much. Now the kids can count the number of words in a sentence, tell when a word ends and another begins, what type of punctuation is at the end of a sentence, and they know that they can write anything they can say.

Today started out with a bang when we discovered a little boy had head lice during the first five minutes of class. Laura (my asst. teacher) had me catch one of the lice on a piece of tape to give to the mother, I guess to prove that there really were bugs?? I didn't really get that...I don't think I would want a bug stuck in tape if that were my child. But hey, that's just a personal opinion I guess. Luckily, we sent him right home and we haven't discovered any other cases [yet]. I'm sure it's just a matter of time...

I do love being a teacher...and I keep telling myself that while I stand in the middle of a room full of 17 children running and screaming and rolling on the floor...