Hey y'all. To start things off, I would like to say Happy Holiday and Happy New Year to all!! Sorry for the long delay since my last post, but I did not really feel there was anything worth posting at the time. December wrapped up as a slightly crazy month in school. Lost of kids were losing their minds, for reasons that I still do not understand. It was as if they all decided that on a different day of the month they were going to drive on corps member completely crazy. Needless to say, they succeeded, as they always seem to do. The more odd part though, at least for myself, is that I always come back the next day wanting to see the kids that drove me up a wall the day prior. It truly is a love hate relationship haha.
In totally unrelated news, I got the most adorable Christmas cards from one of my students on our last day in school before the holidays! She was so excited to give it to me, yet so nervous at the same time, it was just adorable.
I guess keeping with the string of exciting news, I NOW HAVE A TEACHER!!!! The day of long-term substitutes is over, and a stable teacher will now be in command of my classroom!! It is lovely. And for those of you who thought I was teaching, I am not, I am a 1:1 tutor/mentor for students in my ELA class. For a long time now, I have had no teacher, therefore no real structure in a lesson plan, so that made tutoring a little tough. But in the one week that I had a real teacher, there was more coursework than I think me or my students were expecting, it was glorious!! This new teacher seems pretty cool, she is about 25, so pretty young (I think this is one of her first gigs), but it will help her be able to relate more to the students, so I think that will be beneficial.
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Branching away from work for a moment... Some of you probably know that each year my family has a crazy party on New Year's Eve, which tends to serve in large part as a family get together, but also as a way to see family friends. This year, despite the emcee being out of the country once again to serve in the Peace Corps in Madagascar, we were able to make the event happen! The family came in (for the most part, Keenan we were missin ya man) and we were all able to continue a tradition that has been going on for longer than I can remember. It is crazy to think that as we all get older, we are still able to find time to come together as a group and hangout like we were 12 again. I hope that as we all continue to get older, settle down, maybe start families, we will still be able to keep the tradition going, and maybe turn it into something that we can pass down to our kids.
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Okay, now back to work! As this second half of the year starts, a few things will change as far as what I do on a daily basis. Now that my role as a CM is perfectly defined, as well as my role as the Attendance Coordinator for the 9th grade, I will be pulling kids out of class on a more regular basis to tutor them in a more structured setting. In addition to that, I will be working harder to create attendance initiatives that I had proposed before the first semester ended, as well as working to implement them for the teams and students that win. I know none of that may make sense now, but hopefully it will make more sense as the year moves forward.
That is all I have for now, but I will try to make sure I keep this posting to a month by month basis from here on out!
Happy 2014!!!
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