The Week In Review

Hi All! Sorry for the lack of blogging. This student-teaching stuff keeps me busy! So I thought I would [avoid doing my homework for a while and] give you an update on Polly-life. Overall it was a good week, for me and for America (yay Obama!). I had a good time last Sunday with Aunt Barb. We walked around Old Colorado City window shopping and then had lunch. School this week has been good too. So far I have taken over Math Calendar (a daily hodge-podge of math review done with the whole class for the 20 minutes between specials and recess) Cursive (kind of a pointless skill to learn these days in my opinion but whatever!), and Science. So far everything is going really well! The science unit is on rocks and minerals... which if you followed the teacher-book is kind of boring, so I have been mixing it up with other activities to keep them interested. Thursday we explored the property of texture by making rubbings (paper over the rock and then rubbed with a crayon) of the different rocks. The kiddos were super excited about that :)

The not-so-great part of things is still the high level of stress I'm dealing with... and it doesn't really revolve around the teaching stuff. My school has hoops they want me to jump through (paperwork, meetings, observations, etc) and CC has their hoops they want me to jump through (projects, meetings, observations, etc.) and of course they both think their hoops are the most important. Now I know there are always going to be hoops to deal with... but right now I feel like I have to be the world-record hoop-jumper-througher just to keep up. Blah.

Luckily this weekend I have a 3 day weekend! Yay! I think its because Veteran's Day is Tuesday so our district just decided to change it to Monday. Anyway, I am using it to sleep, enjoy the sunshine (stupid time change) and get some work done. Yesterday I had a very lazy morning followed by a nice hike with the pupper. Today I am (hopefully) going to be getting a lot of work done and then take a break to go hang out with the CC crew at Marci's house for a while. And tomorrow I plan to get snow tires on Cujo.

The highlight of my week this week was one of my kiddos saying "Ms. Frostman, I am glad you don't have to go to class anymore and you can be here with us all day!"