The Next Week…
Posted By jspear
Date: September 3rd, 2008
Category: Uncategorized
Short week and halfway through at that. Today was much better than yesterday. I had one easily distracted angel home after yesterday’s incidents and one of my waywards who was absent yesterday returned. Yes they must have virtually tagged in each other. I managed it much better and had many successful moments in my centers rotations and then various carpet times through the day. I still need to beef up my engagement level as far as products. It’s either oral/physical effort or worksheets. I try to keep it all around 15 minutes so nothing becomes too tedious for them but I know they are tired of gripping crayons. Our “All About Me” face project is going so-so ( I got pulled to a meeting and didn’t get to start it and cover the why) and they relish every glue and scissor activity- so trying to work on those.
I’ve started some parent calls for both good but mostly troubling behaviour- I always try to include encouraging words even for my mischievous kinders. So far they have been well recieved and hopefuly we shift to predominantly good story calls. I have 3 out of 18 that are real trouble and one I feel I have a handle on. I have informed Digimom that they all really work well and know their stuff when on task but it’s the keeping on the tracks that is so laborious and draining. I say I have told her so I can begin prepping the TAG rails when it comes time to cough up students from the class. Really it will be good for them to be pushed and challenged and use their creative pent up energies with a teacher better suited to it. ;p
Feeling a little more bolstered but I will start having my efforts observed and critiqued- must focus- they are just there to give me help and support. I must try and not take it as “omigod- they gave you a probationary certificate- who do we call to revoke that!?!”