two weeks and counting..

so i survived another week and i am heading into my third. testing continues take up most of my time, trying to assess all my students is really time consuming, but i should be done after this week. so far all of my students are below grade-level (which i expected) so i definitely have my work cut out for me this year, but i guess i knew that too! my kids continue to have a ton of energy.. which drains me of most of mine! but they are a lot of fun, and you have to expect a lot of energy from 6-year-olds!

i am really enjoying getting to know their individual personalities. they are all so funny and they love to be silly, which makes teaching them so much fun (except when we need to get work done). but since we have been doing so much testing and sitting still lately i downloaded "shake your sillies out" by raffi and i put it on when things get too serious and let them dance around. it is probably the funniest thing ever and if i could video tape it and provide you all a good laugh i definitely would... but instead you will just have to imagine it!

and let me tell you that little kids are the biggest confidence booster! every day at least one of them tells me how they like my hair or my glasses or my shoes or something else like that. even when i haven't washed my hair in 3 days or done laundry in 2 weeks... they still love me! :)

some of them knew it was my birthday this weekend and they were asking how old i am. when i told them i was 25 several of them said "that's how old my mom is!!" i'm not sure if they really mean that because they don't have much concept of age, but in some cases they probably do! scary thought!

side note: it's a four day week and i already survived one day! we also had our first PTA meeting tonight. about 8 parents showed up, but if you have any fundraising ideas for low-income families/areas then please let me know!!