An Awful Teacher

I am reminded weekly of what an awful teacher I am.  Today I had a parent march into my classroom a few minutes after the bell rang and told me she wanted to observe her student in our morning routine, she was asked to leave because it is district policy. As the day progressed she told my boss that I am rude and told me the same thing when I spent half an hour on the phone with her. While on the phone we also discussed how the class sizes are too large and the classrooms are too small, (all things that I have complete control over). Some days I cannot do anything right!  The good news is tomorrow is a new day.

A Nice Compliment

Our October sharing theme is Fall so my students are to bring something that has to do with Fall on their sharing day. Yesterday the girl who shared pulled a pumpkin out of her backpack and showed us the pictures she drew on her pumpkin.  When she got to the two people standing in the middle of her pumpkin she said that is me and you! I have never been drawn on a pumpkin before; I was very flattered.

96...97...99...100

As parent teacher conferences approach I have been assessing my students.  One of my assessments was to listen to my students count.  I had one boy who counted 96...97...99...100!  He started at 1 and when he got to 97 he skipped 98 and counted 99, 100!  I don't mind when they can't count to 100, but if I have to listen to you count all the way to 97 please get all the way to 100.

The other fun thing about counting is when they count 38, 39, 100!  My students think if they say 100, they have earned their spot in the 100 Club!

Pink

I looked at several different blog layouts before I picked this one.  I know it is very bright, but I remember the advice I was given when I walked in for my first day of Kindergarten. "You can't be a Kindergarten teacher unless you like pink."  I looked at the outfits of the twelve girls in my class and they were all wearing pink.  So, I have a pink Kindergarten blog.

All in a Days Work

I am very lucky this year that I only have 18 students in my class (right now).  However, I am having trouble with teaching my students not to talk when I am teaching.  All day, every day I feel like I am saying, "Friends please be quiet, friends you aren't using your manners, friends we aren't going to learn if we keep talking".  Well, today I forgot to check out their Caldecott books and I forgot to put their behavior reports in their Friday folders.  At the end of the day I asked which student wanted to be the teacher while I finished these tasks.  I was going to let the "teacher" sit in my chair and choose students to sort pictures into categories on my SMARTBoard. I was checking out Caldecott books and I heard the "teacher" say "Now I know how Mrs. Wilkerson feels."  Her class was talking while she was trying to help them with the activity and she was feeling my frustration.