Quotes of the Day #1

"Miss, can I smell your hair? It smells good."

"I love the school too much. I just don't want to sleep."

"Miss, Miss, Miss, at what o'clock is school finished?"

"My tummy, it's paining me."

Saturday 9/18

I'm enjoying a minute's peace to blog, although I should continue working on what I'm doing this week in 1st grade. Last week was my first week with students (which was only 3 days), so I can't even fathom what this next full week will be like! The kids are super cute, but so busy-bodied! With time, I know that we'll get into a solid routine and have much more productive class time. For now, I'm lacking some of the materials that I need in order to do all the reading activities that the 1st graders are supposed to be working on, so we continue to do lots of assessment and fun things to get to know each other. On Thursday, I had them playing a math game which is basically like "War," practicing which numbers 1-10 are bigger than the others. If anyone walked by my room, it kind of looked like I was running a gambling circuit, but the point is that the game helped them practice number recognition, greater than/less than, and cooperation. They definitely had a blast.

On a side note, my family used to have this giant gray, calculator-type toy that spoke when we pushed different buttons on it. It would quiz us on which numbers were grater than/less than other numbers, and it made crazy noises when we picked the wrong numbers. Does anyone remember that? What was that thing called?