38 more students, only 2 subjects and a great start to the year!
It's nearing the end of month two of the 2008-09 school year. Each one of my four years teaching has been VASTLY different. This year, I have four different homerooms to teach, and two subjects- Language Arts and Science. For those of you who have ever tried to teach science, it is freaking hard! So many concepts to cover. Yes, kids gravitate towards it because they can relate it to the world around them, but it is still super hard. This year is off to a surprisingly strong start in most respects, especially considering we have lost 8 days of instruction due to a wild hurricane season. Working together as a school and a 6th grade team has really paid off, and I feel like our students will make lots of progress this year.
We are working on a newspaper project where students are designing a newspaper page in partners. Then, on Friday parents are joining us for a publishing party to read the newspapers! Since parents usually only come to school for negative reasons like behavior problems, I love offering a chance for them to come on a positive note. It has been an adjustment worrying about 48 kids instead of 10 all day, but it's coming along. It's a crazy mix of students I have had for 3 years in my class, former students now returning to me after a year "off" from Ms. Bliss, students who have been at our school for awhile but never had me as a teacher, and brand new Leon Godchaux sixth graders. It really is nice to know a large percentage of them from the past, it got the ball rolling a lot faster since they knew what to expect and could set an example for other students.
The first East St. John football game was Friday, and that is always a highlight of the week for me. The Sugarette dancers, many other student groups, Jambalaya, our students not in uniform (they either run towards us or away from us- it's interesting to see which choice they make). There is a really great documentary just made about the ESJ football team called Walking on Dead Fish. It is probably not showing nationwide, but if you have a chance to see it, definitely do! It is amazing and really captures the spirit of St. John Parish, particularly immediately after Hurricane Katrina.
Well, there could be so much more to tell but I am off to ....work! Still teaching it like its hot (I told my students the other day that the reason I am covered in chalk by the end of each day is because I teach it like its hot- they got a big kick out of that.)
Sincerely,
Sarah B.
We are working on a newspaper project where students are designing a newspaper page in partners. Then, on Friday parents are joining us for a publishing party to read the newspapers! Since parents usually only come to school for negative reasons like behavior problems, I love offering a chance for them to come on a positive note. It has been an adjustment worrying about 48 kids instead of 10 all day, but it's coming along. It's a crazy mix of students I have had for 3 years in my class, former students now returning to me after a year "off" from Ms. Bliss, students who have been at our school for awhile but never had me as a teacher, and brand new Leon Godchaux sixth graders. It really is nice to know a large percentage of them from the past, it got the ball rolling a lot faster since they knew what to expect and could set an example for other students.
The first East St. John football game was Friday, and that is always a highlight of the week for me. The Sugarette dancers, many other student groups, Jambalaya, our students not in uniform (they either run towards us or away from us- it's interesting to see which choice they make). There is a really great documentary just made about the ESJ football team called Walking on Dead Fish. It is probably not showing nationwide, but if you have a chance to see it, definitely do! It is amazing and really captures the spirit of St. John Parish, particularly immediately after Hurricane Katrina.
Well, there could be so much more to tell but I am off to ....work! Still teaching it like its hot (I told my students the other day that the reason I am covered in chalk by the end of each day is because I teach it like its hot- they got a big kick out of that.)
Sincerely,
Sarah B.
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