the end of my year with the super bees...

I'm done. I finished my student teaching on Thursday. There were tears in the car, but I held them back in front of the kids. The class surprised me with a pizza party for lunch on Wednesday. Then there was an "emergency staff meeting" on Wednesday afternoon that involved cake and some goodies for my future classroom.
I was so lucky to work with such a wonderful and supportive staff. Everyone was always willing to answer questions and offer their help. I had a fantastic class full of some of the greatest kids. We had our challenges but in the end I can laugh them all off. I will miss everyone so so much! Looking forward to my visit on Wednesday.

just about cried on the spot.

So I am stepping out of my classroom and letting my fabulous mentor take back over. But this afternoon, after being out of the classroom the majority of the day I came back in for the last hour. One little super bee (Cotton Candy-don't remember if I mentioned her before) came up to me and gave me a big hug. When she let go she looked at me with the saddest eyes and said, "Miss B------, I don't want you to leave." It was so so sad I almost cried right there on the spot. I am going to miss all those little super bee smiles every morning! Next Thursday will be bitter sweet...



The picture is none of the super bees, just a random one from online.

P-U-K-E

I am giving teaching responsibilities back over to my mentor teacher since I only have 10 more days left with the super bees. So today as my fabulous mentor was teaching a spelling lesson and I was correcting papers in the back of the room we were just going about our business. When I hear "FOREST GREEN JUST PUKED!!!!" From about 5 different little voices. I look up and sure enough it's all over the floor, him an his desk. We get the bucket to him and he promptly pukes right next to it, of course. We got him down to the office, and to the nurse to head for home. (we are still missing our recycle bin while it gets sanitized). I then got the task of keeping the kids away from the vomit and helping to clean it up as that is the one thing that my fabulous mentor just can't do without joining the little one in the nurses office. Lets just say that EVERy students desk has been bleached as well as the door knobs and drinking fountain and everything else I could get to.
After this we knew there was no more focusing the kids on anything so we had some choosing time at which point FM turned on some music. Automatically the girls all started dancing and singing along to the very popular song. It was HILARIOUS! They were so into it! And they recognized each new song before FM or I could. I think my favorite was when I was cleaning desks and heard "Lay Gaga, Lady Gaga!!!" they were so excited!

oh and I got to deal with boogers today too.

sick. again.

being sick is the worst. I want to spend my days in first grade world, not on the couch feeling crummy. Don't know what I have but I do know that strep throat is going around: fabulous mentor had it 2 weeks ago, principal had it last week and we have a student out with it now... I really hope thats not what this is.
This week is Dentist/tooth week in our classroom. Just in time for them to come now that none of our students have any teeth! Seriously. We got a new little girl yesterday and we were talking about her teeth (she is missing 6 of them!) and mom actually said, "She can at least eat better now."
Our room is losing so many teeth that we keep filling and overfilling our tooth chart. It's nuts!

On to other news: I finished my humongous lesson plans and passed all portions! FANTASTIC! Now I can just focus on my teaching. It is lovely. My lesson plans went from 10 pages per 45 minutes to two pages per week. Love it!

The worst part of being home sick: DAYTIME TV. It is now time to use that free ondemand button.