Wordless Wednesday: Story of my life :)

Last minute thoughts

My one year anniversary of working with my current company is coming up. It's interesting looking back at how much things have changed. How much I've grown and learned as a teacher and how a certain group of kids can have a huge effect on your classroom environment.

Lately I've been struggling and having a hard time dealing with some of the kids in my class. I reached my breaking point a couple of weeks ago and I almost came to a point where I thought I was doing something wrong. Well today, things went differently. Some changes were made and there is someone new working with me in the classroom. I admit I was a little worried about the reactions the kids would have about a new face in the classroom but they did amazing!

Days like today make me realize that all my hard work has finally paid off. My what I thought were failed attempts of classroom management pulled though. Having a new face in the classroom helped me regained my confidence as a teacher. I'm adjusting to the change and look forward to the future!

Bullying: A REAL problem

I'm not sure if I'm actually going to watch this movie, it's looks sad and depressing but at the same time really important. Bullying is a huge problem these days, and it seems to continue to be ignored. Growing up I remember their being problems of kids picking on each other. It would happen, right there in front of the teacher or principal and they would simply just turn the other way, like nothing had happen. I always felt a sense of anger. How could they just ignore it? And the teacher they show in the video, "they are as good as gold," using the same excuse as boys will be boys, and they are just cruel at this age. Well I'm not buying it!

When I was a kid. I was the one that stood up for the other kids being picked on. I made friends with "the loner" who was always by himself. I stopped the behavior. I stood up to the silence. It was sad to see that their weren't very many people that stood with me, even my friends. I was made fun of myself because I was friends with what was known as "the losers" to most people.

It's really sad to see this kind of stuff being ignored and brushed off like it's no big deal. I see this stuff happen in my class of 4 and 5 year olds. Not on MY watch. As soon as I see even the slightest amount of teasing, I stop it. Kids need to know that this type of behavior is not ok! And I make sure they do!

Seeing this has caused me to think and do more research on it. A way to prevent bullying from happening. Some sort of anti-bullying program schools can use. I don't know if schools already something like this, but I'm definitely interested in looking into it and looking up more information about it. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, let me know. I would love to be a part it, to help make a difference in the world.

The countdown

You ever came to a point in your life where you feel you've had enough? You hit a brick wall, and have a hard time to get yourself out of bed? I'm there. I'm tired and overwhelmed. I find my patience has run short with the kids at work. I'm grumpy and get upset over every little thing.

These reasons are why I requested time off work, and am taking a mini action with Tyrel. It's hard taking time off work, but I've been struggling. My body is starting to shut down, and I need to listen to it. And so the countdown has begun.

6 more days... until I get days off and no more worries. I get an ocean front view and wake up to this:

Needless to say my brain is already in vacation mode. Longest week ever!

Wordless Wednesday: Something to think about

Working out... can be fun!

Today I did the most wonderful and invigorating workout! It wasn't my normal run I usually do, it was something completely different. It was with my new xbox kinect!

I had bought it just yesterday and with it came a game called kinect adventures. I started playing and in a matter of minutes I was sweating up a storm! I played for about an hour, and found it hard to stop playing. Who knew that you could get a workout from playing video games. Of course that's probably not what it was intended for, but hey it works. You can have multi-player as well!

The thing I like about it too is that it takes pictures while you play.

My favorite one's are of me in the air :)

Anyway, I'm pretty satisfied with this recent purchase and my next goal is to buy the Your Shape™ : Fitness Evolved 2012. And I'm sort of interested in the Zumba one as well. So that's all for now. I better get going, have a long week ahead of me. Only 10 more days until vacation time!

Rumors cleared

So I apologize if my last post was a bit confusing. On Valentine's day I had made a sign for my boyfriend where I asked him to marry me. Well apparently even when the girl asked the guy, it makes it official so technically we are "engaged." Well let me give me a chance to explain.

The reason why I had made the sign was because I needed to know if Tyrel ever wanted to get married (again.) Lately I've been making subtle hints about wanting to get married. The first one being the first sign I made and the other one being this sign I left for him the next morning:

You can guess what the day means but basically it's the date I'd like to be married by. We talked about it and both of us decided that sounded like a reasonable date.

When I woke up this morning there was a note left on the white board for me telling me to turn on Tyrel's computer and look though the internet tabs open. I looked and to my surprise they were rings. I think he's starting to catch on :)

Anyway to concluded this post, Tyrel and I are NOT engaged, regardless of what everyone else says.