2 More Weekends
Two more weekends and that's it for home for me. I was more depressed last week and the week before than I am this week, but it's starting to hit me again. This house is so familiar that it's very difficult to imagine someone ELSE living here. I think I'll miss the memories that this house holds for my family and the small things that are all too familiar to me.We are having a yard sale next weekend and the weekend after will be mostly final packing and moving days. How depressing. The other side of me is really happy that my parents finally get to retire and enjoy themselves in Vancouver. I am hoping to spend the summer over there, but I know when the time comes to leave again, I'll wonder what the heck I'm doing coming all the way back to NB!?
The school year is almost over. I think we must be down to around 30 or so teaching days now. I can hardly believe my first year of teaching is almost over! Where did the time go? I'm in semi-panic mode as I have so much I left that I feel I need to cover (and practice) with them, but there is no time. It's full speed ahead from now until the end of June. My kids have to write a district math exam at the beginning of June and I'm going to be forcing math down their throats for the next little while.
I can't remember whether I mentioned the story about a note I received a few weeks ago. One of my behaviour kids showed up the day after he was out with a note from his mother saying "Dear Ms. Tan, please excuse him from school yesterday. He refused to get dressed for school so I grounded him for the day". Hm... I wonder who won that fight? This is the same parent who was so annoyed at me because her son received a "letter of concern" because of all the days that he's been out this school year. She ranted and raved for about 3 days straight until I called her and then suddenly, all was fine.
During my principal's observation of my teaching a few weeks ago, she had to pull one of my students out of my room because he was just being much too disruptive. I think she realized exactly how bad it can get in my classroom with the combination of students I have. This child, I really don't understand - he was flailing his arms, making noises and making faces and just generally moving in every which way that he could in his seat. He was trying his utmost to get everyone's attention, but the strange thing is, none of my kids were paying attention to him (I don't know whether this is because I told them that if they react, they'll go to the office, or whether it's because they are just so darn used to it that they don't care anymore)! So why would he continue to behave in that manner?!
When our positive behaviour intervention and support coach came to observe this student, she found that it wasn't him that was disruptive, it was the OTHER (not the one with the note, but another one) one that was causing a lot of disruptions. The frustrating thing is, nobody has seen my class in complete "action" when all the behaviours are at it AND the rest of the class thinks it's a free for all. Anyhow, she was also commenting on how she doesn't know how I can teach when I get interrupted at every 2nd word and the class thinks it's time for them to have conversations across the room. UGH! We did this lesson on "Knowing when to quiet down" on Friday, and the lesson stuck in their heads for all of 30 minutes. It's ridiculous!
It's not all bad though. I see their academic improvement and some of them are trying very hard to improve their behaviours. I've seen some children come along extremely well that it's hard to believe that it's the same child that walked into my classroom at the beginning of the year. I'm not saying it's all me, by far, a very large part of it is parental support.
Anyhow, I'd better stop here. Enjoy the weather!
posted by jaryee @ 11:44 a.m.
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