Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Today was super exciting; I got to be the teacher for a bit!  After doing the whole morning routine of eating breakfast, catching the bus, walking to school, and reading about Napoleon until my class started, it was finally 9:20.  We greeted the kids outside of the classroom as they entered.  There were a bunch of really tall 9^th Graders, along with a bunch of really short ones.  We started the class period by having students write their name on a notecard and then draw something that represented them.  While going around sharing, one girl said that she liked to ski and I asked “where do you like to ski?”  She replied in a rather sassy voice, “I am half Norwegian.  I go to Norway to ski.”  That put me in my place.  We also had them play People Bingo and set up a facebook group for the class for their bellwork and whatnot.  Then I was in charge.  I had them make a human timeline with a series of events that they will be learning about in class.  Everyone has a laptop in class, so they looked up the events before I could say no.  However, that was probably for the best because then they learned a little something while looking it up.  They did pretty well on the timeline and I had a chance to watch to see who the class leaders were.  I also had them play games just for fun as icebreakers.  We played a murder game where two people have a disease and have to make eye contact with the others and wink at them to infect/kill them.  That was fun!  The last class finished really early, so they wanted to play 7-up.  I did not realize that kids still play 7-up, but 7-up we played.  Overall, I had a blast with my kids at school!  After school, we had an IB meeting which got me home late.  Dinner was delicious as always with chicken, rice, avocado, fried bananas, and a banana bread pudding thing that smelled and tasted amazing.  Afterwards I chillaxed with Zoe, Kelsey, and Sarah while Katie and McCall stayed for McCall’s meet the teacher night.  ‘Twas a fun day!