Teaching

Life gets interesting when you are spending most of your time with third graders... Conversation that I had after stating that we would be getting a new student Tuesday:

S1: Miss Fiso, is it your daughter!?
Me: Ummm... No, I don't have a daughter and if I did she would not be old enough to join you for school!
S2: Miss Fiso do you have a baby?
S3: No, she's not married
S4: Why are you not married?
S3: She's only 22!
S5: My mom got married when she was 19.
S6: Don't worry Miss Fiso, my aunt isn't married and she is almost 40.
Me: I think we should move on to something other than my marital status... Let's maybe talk about why you all are calling out? ;)

Life these days... Crazy but good! I love my class and the people I work with, I could do without the double duty of teacher and student but I'm starting to get the hang of it!

First week

This week was kind of insane trying to get everything worked out but I love my class! On Fridays I have the students turn in their journals to me so that I can make sure they have been writing in them. I had some exciting entries. "Third grade should be called fun grade" "Miss Fiso has made it on to my pretty and nice list of teachers" ha! They are great! I have also received plenty of pictures and notes from my students as well. But my favorite is the stories they have written me as writing assignments. One assignment was a trick story... One girl wrote about a time she tricked her brother "It was so funny I lafed my head off. Well my head didn't go off"

I am so excited to actually be teaching but things are so busy and I feel like there is not enough time for everything that I need to do. I'm sure I will eventually get it figured out but until then...