First week complete.

Here is my week in a short little recap :) 
Monday: New internist. Finally kicked my old one to the curb. It's so vital that your PCP really understands you and is willing to work with all the specialist on your case. That wasn't the case before, but no need to stress anymore. I'm moving in the right direction!


Thursday: My first day student teaching. The anticipation was killing me and I was anxiously awaiting this day for so long. The first day jitters of what to wear, what to expect, what am I going to be doing, and so on have finally passed. I pulled up promptly at 8:00am and was ready to start the day! It was great to just talk with my teacher and dive in!  There wasn't any students (they won't be there until the 15th) so we just worked on setting up the classroom and getting it all ready! By the end of the day, I was zonked. My bed was calling my name.

Friday: Second day. I officially made it through. We had a two hour meeting to start off the day but interestingly enough, we played "minute to win it" to start the meeting, during break, and to end the meeting! As we know, teachers are usually fairly creative and two of the current teacher created games for every individual to play that were just like those on minute to win it! We played "junk in the trunk" where you had a bungee cord on each side of a Kleenex box with four ping pong balls in it just over your bottom. The goal: To jump up and down until you got all your ping pong balls out. Some other ones including bouncing a ball into a cup, putting together a cut up cereal box cover, balancing six dice on a popsicle stick with your mouth, and more! Needless to say, it made for quite a morning!

If only the day remained nice...
On the way home, I had a little incident. I guess you could say I just wanted to "hug the curb."
In other words, I got a flat tire. Literally about ten blocks away from the school. What a bummer to the end of such a great week. The only thing I kept thinking is "ca-ching ca-ching, ca-ching, this is going to cost me!" I pulled over in this strip mall type area and tried to call people for a ride home. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a hold of anyone. My boy was working, mom didn't answer, friends were at a wedding, no one answered. So yes, I sat in my car for a good two hours. Yes, two hours. Luckily I had a little extra food in my lunch bag that I didn't eat earlier...that tidied me over for the dreadful time period.

This Weekend: Organizing future classroom goodies! During the month of August, Target has super sweet dollar bins AND Borders is going out of business. (Very sad for them, but excellent for my wallet). This weekend I stocked up on some super exciting deals with my mom and started to organize them! Here is what I got going so far...

Supply drawer 1

Supply drawer 2

My growing children's book stash

I only have about 60 or so books collected for my future classroom, but I just started a spreadsheet that has all these books in order by title and author. It will make it much easier when I am looking for a book to use with a lesson plan :)

cheap bins make organizing easy :)

So I scored these sweet bins at Target! You can get a pack of five for $5.00! (they even come in more colors, if you don't like black!) I used some painting tape that I found (because for now, I don't want to permanently mark these bins!) Also, tape just peels off, leaving no residue. Labels, or other sticky things can leaves marks when
you try and remove it.




Take a look at some other things I scored at Target and Borders...

I scored some cute wall charts for $2.50!

I won't open them until I am able to laminate them. 

(Who ever invented lamination was genius!)

Counting money dry erase board!

Addition dry erase spin board!

 

Educational Flashcards - These are also in those bins!

I love these flashcards. For only a dollar, you can't go wrong. I stocked up on phonics (digraphs, homophones, blends, rhyming, etc..) presidents, addition, subtraction, states/capitals, telling time, and MORE! Will I use all of them? Maybe not, but someone will! Teachers are the greatest borrowers and I know they will not go to waste.

Does anyone remember reading Ping? I found this HUGE lap-book at Borders and thought it would be perfect! I even sat it next to Chunk (who is 23lbs) so you could get an idea of how big it really is ; )

Anyways, time to catch up on the new Project Runway while I have some free time :)
Does anyone watch this show?! I love it!
Have a good week!
xoxo
-erinj0