My journey to teaching Pre-K starts here. I am 25 (almost 26 on the 26th, which I think is very cool which is why I think I am teaching Pre-K because little things like that amaze me LOL). This is my first year of being an official teacher!!! I graduated with my Bachelor's degree in Education in 2008, but the economy went south that year so yay me lol anyway no job equaled subbing. So for the next school I was a substitute teacher at several school includig the one I am teaching at now. Again not much hiring going on in the school system so the next school year (09-10) I was a sub again but I was able to do three long term sub jobs at the same school where I student taught. I was pretty much there all year and got many of those first year teaching experiences under my belt including Open House, Curriculum Night, early release days for weather, and many more! It was a great learning experience with a great group of people to work with. So I went again thinking that I would not be teaching full time in the fall, but that all changed on July 12th when a phone call from a local day care came offering me a position as their Pre-K lead teacher!!! I jumped at the chance and started working the week of pre-planning! I couldn't have asked for a better beginning to my first year of teaching, the kids were amazing and I was loving every minute of it! Even though Pre-K was a whole new world for me as far as teaching goes so I felt like I was learning right along with them at least until I started going to my trainings. Everything was going along just fine! Life was great! I was teaching, dating a great guy, preparing for a week at Disney, and didn't think it could get any better. I love it when the Lord shows how he can out do your expectations. I got an email on Friday, September 10th from a family friend who works in the office of the school asking if I would want to interview for a Pre-K position they would have starting in October! My first thought was seriously?!? I have waited for this opportunity (yes, just an interview . . I was desperate!) for two years and it comes now when I have a job!! Anyway so I discussed it and analyzed with everyone in my life and decided that while if I did get the job I would miss my class terribly, but I couldn't pass up an opportunity like this. So I interviewed with the principal on Wednesday, September 15th. I felt like the interview went very well but I had no idea whether I would get it or not because there were still others that had to be interviewed. So off to Disney World we went the following Saturday tyring to patiently await the phone he said would come the beginning of the week. I say trying to wait patiently because I anxious very anxious just ask the other 20 people who were in Disney with me!! So, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 we (all 20 of us) were sitting in the food court area (or as we refered to it that week as the break room) when my cell phone rang. I knew it who it was immediately (and so did everyone else since I walked outside to answer). It was the principal offering me the position!!!! I immediately accepted feeling like I have never felt before, I think my heart nearly came out of my chest LOL. I walked back in to everyone looking at me anxiously awaiting for me to tell them. I yelled "I got the job!!!" and then they all clapped and cheered along me. I'm sure the others in there thought we were all crazy but we kinda are so it's ok. Talk about dreams coming true in Disney, boy do they! So that is my story till now. I have been teaching Pre-K since August and started at my current location in the middle of October. It's going great and I love it!!! I actually love going to work each morning and miss their smiling faces when we have breaks such as this week. Three snow days in a row in Georgia! I don't remember missing this many days of school in a row since the Blizzard of '93 which some people have compared this snow to but this is nothing LOL but it has been lots of fun and I can't wait to hear all their stories about what they have done while out of school. Which leads to me to explain why I am starting this blog. My students do and say some of the most funny things and I never want to forget them so I thought I would blog about them. Don't worry I am not going to name any students, I am going to call them by a number which only I will know so its all private.
To start out I will just name a few of the stories that stick out so far as I am sure there will be many more to come. Now some of these may be things the kids did or said in conversation with me or other students and some may be things that they got in trouble for but they are four so somethings they do are still funny even if they shouldn't do it :)
*A little background for this story, kids at this age are still learning even the smallest of things including which finger they should use to point. So this little boy was using his middle finger to point to his name and the little girl next to him says "Him's flicking a bird, him's flicking a bird!" Now I immediately want to laugh out loud because one the four year old little girl is saying flicking a bird which is just hilarious because she knows exactly what it means and two because the expression on her face is pure shock and terror that he is doing this. I, of course, explain to her that he is not "flicking a bird" but just using a differnt finger to point.
*I had a little boy on the playground go stand by the fence and pee off into the grass. I asked him why he would do that, and his response was "There was a hole there for my pee pee." Well of course! Why not then! LOL
*I had a little girl put marbles in her underwear, now to most this may seem digusting but at the moment I was so mad that she done this and was refusing to take them out. I made her take them out and put them in my hand (don't worry I went and washed them with soap and water immediately afterwards and used sanitizer). The bad part was that she didn't hand them all to me so I heard them later as she was walking around later so we got those out and my parapro told her grandma when she got picked up from school. Come to find out she still had some in there when she got home. I tell you these gets are determined when they put their mind to something. LOL I could hardly get on the little girl because really I wanted to laugh. It was just so comical to me for some reason. Never could get her to tell me why she did it, but she did bring me new marbles after Christmas break, and the ones she put in her underwear went in the trashcan!
Well, those are just some that really stick out in my mind right now. I hope to have many more stories to share as the year goes on. And I know there are more that have happened that I just can't remember right now :(
Have a great day!!
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