So I have a few things to post about today...
THe first is that I finished teaching my unit on Friday. The whole week went SO well and I received a lot of praise from other teachers. It was so much fun and I really can't wait to have my own classroom.
The second is that I had a presentation in my science class today. My partner and I took a big risk in making our presentation exciting and funny rather than dull and boring but it was fabulous! The whole class was laughing including our professor- he loved it and we have an A+!
Even with both of these exciting moments I am really stressed out. It is the last week of classes which means billions of projects due and then next week is finals which means exams and presentations. I am excited to be so close to done but I feel like I will never make it across the finish line. I am so overwhelmed- last night, thanks to working on projects, I only got 4 hours of sleep instead of my usual 8- it does not feel good.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
My life soundtrack
I found this on Caryn's blog and thought it looked like fun so here goes..
IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool... and alot of the songs fit with the setting
Opening Credits: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones (Wow. Let's see where the rest of this goes...)
Waking Up: Mama Said by The Shirelles
First Day At School: Alright by Supergrass
Falling In Love: 100 Years by Five for Fighting (I can't make this up!)
Fight Song: Whip It by Devo
Breaking Up: Walk On by U2
Prom: Beautiful Disaster by Jon McLaughlin (I didn't go to prom but I LOVE this song)
Life: The Song of the Heart by Prince (from the Happy Feet Soundtrack, this is a perfect song for this one- I love it)
Mental Breakdown: Where Did You Go? by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (nice)
Driving: No Particular Place to Go by Chuck Berry (this song is nothing if not a driving song)
Flashback: Cry Ophelia by Adam Cohen (umm wow)
Getting back together: I've Got to See You Again by Norah Jones
Wedding: Tiny Dancer by Elton John (a few months ago I would have said this didn't fit but recently I discovered that Matt does an amazing rendition of this song karaoke style- I love that man, he makes me laugh like no one else can!)
Birth of Child: Baby's Got Sauce by G. Love and the Special Sauce (okay- technically this is about his girlfriend being better than everyone else's but you know I can take it as my kid being cooler than all the others, at least in my eyes, to everyone else s/he will probably be a big dork just like me)
Final Battle: Footloose (awesome)
Death Scene: Always Something There to Remind Me (haha! nice)
Funeral Song: Season of Love from Rent (perfection)
End Credits: All Right Now by Free
I really like this mix... try it and post your results
IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool... and alot of the songs fit with the setting
Opening Credits: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones (Wow. Let's see where the rest of this goes...)
Waking Up: Mama Said by The Shirelles
First Day At School: Alright by Supergrass
Falling In Love: 100 Years by Five for Fighting (I can't make this up!)
Fight Song: Whip It by Devo
Breaking Up: Walk On by U2
Prom: Beautiful Disaster by Jon McLaughlin (I didn't go to prom but I LOVE this song)
Life: The Song of the Heart by Prince (from the Happy Feet Soundtrack, this is a perfect song for this one- I love it)
Mental Breakdown: Where Did You Go? by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (nice)
Driving: No Particular Place to Go by Chuck Berry (this song is nothing if not a driving song)
Flashback: Cry Ophelia by Adam Cohen (umm wow)
Getting back together: I've Got to See You Again by Norah Jones
Wedding: Tiny Dancer by Elton John (a few months ago I would have said this didn't fit but recently I discovered that Matt does an amazing rendition of this song karaoke style- I love that man, he makes me laugh like no one else can!)
Birth of Child: Baby's Got Sauce by G. Love and the Special Sauce (okay- technically this is about his girlfriend being better than everyone else's but you know I can take it as my kid being cooler than all the others, at least in my eyes, to everyone else s/he will probably be a big dork just like me)
Final Battle: Footloose (awesome)
Death Scene: Always Something There to Remind Me (haha! nice)
Funeral Song: Season of Love from Rent (perfection)
End Credits: All Right Now by Free
I really like this mix... try it and post your results
Confirmation...
Don't you love it when it dawns on you that you are doing exactly what God has planned for you? Yesterday was the first time that I had to teach an actual class of children. Sure, I have written billions of lesson plans before but those have always been presented to my peers in a college classroom, never to the real people group I will be teaching.
I am taking a class right now and I am the only one who signed up for it, one on one attention is amazing when learning how to write lessons! Since I was the only one I had no outlet to present it so we asked the director of the nursery school where I work and she and the teacher invited me to teach for a week! I had to write an entire thematic unit and am currently teaching it.
I was so nervous yesterday morning. I had planned for weeks and arrived at the classroom an hour early to set up but could not calm my nerves- I was not nervous with the children or even with my plans, I was nervous about my professor, the teacher, and the director all observing me. It is tremendous pressure to not just have one master teacher observe but three!
Well, the day went off without a hitch! The kids were cooperative and loved the activities I had planned and I got compliments from the director, teacher, my prof AND other teachers in the building.
Growing up an officers' kid you always feel that pull that you HAVE to be an officer or at the very least go into ministry, for a long time I had felt that I might be making a mistake considering the officer to civilian ratio in my family but every time I step into a classroom I am reminded why I didn't go to the training school.
I love my job and I love that someday I will have a classroom of my own (though I don't always enjoy all the work that goes into getting there!).
I am taking a class right now and I am the only one who signed up for it, one on one attention is amazing when learning how to write lessons! Since I was the only one I had no outlet to present it so we asked the director of the nursery school where I work and she and the teacher invited me to teach for a week! I had to write an entire thematic unit and am currently teaching it.
I was so nervous yesterday morning. I had planned for weeks and arrived at the classroom an hour early to set up but could not calm my nerves- I was not nervous with the children or even with my plans, I was nervous about my professor, the teacher, and the director all observing me. It is tremendous pressure to not just have one master teacher observe but three!
Well, the day went off without a hitch! The kids were cooperative and loved the activities I had planned and I got compliments from the director, teacher, my prof AND other teachers in the building.
Growing up an officers' kid you always feel that pull that you HAVE to be an officer or at the very least go into ministry, for a long time I had felt that I might be making a mistake considering the officer to civilian ratio in my family but every time I step into a classroom I am reminded why I didn't go to the training school.
I love my job and I love that someday I will have a classroom of my own (though I don't always enjoy all the work that goes into getting there!).
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