Ooops - sorry I didn't write on Tuesday - and even last night - just way too busy and by the time I remembered that I hadn't written the blog, I was in bed and ready to crash. Since I am writing about four days, I will do a quick synopsis so you all don't fall asleep as you read about our exciting lives! :-)
On Monday, it was a pupil free day. We spent the morning meeting as a staff - the usual boring meeting - some housekeeping as they call it (to do with what's going on in the school, etc.) and then some professional development (talking about inference) - boring to me for two reasons: one, I had already seen the info when I was teaching at Kawungan and two: trying to teach inference to Prep kids would be ridiculous with the lack of what they come to school with. For goodness sake, some kids didn't even know what a fairy tale was.
I am teaching a fairy tale unit and started off the unit by asking the students to paint a picture of their favourite fairy tale character. When one of them was asked what they had painted which had nothing to do with fairy tales, he said that he didn't know what a fairy tale was. When I talked with Sam, my TA about this, she said that when they did the nursery rhyme unit earlier this year, a number of them had never heard of these rhymes. Sheesh!
The rest of the day on Monday we were given time to team plan. We actually didn't do any planning as we were all busy with trying to get our own classrooms sorted out. It was good to have that time to get my classroom a little more in order. I am trying to make the classroom a little more my own - it's going to take time, but it was good to get a little start on it.
Tuesday, the kids were pretty good and I was pleasantly surprised and Wednesday, it was the same. I began to think that possibly I might actually learn to like teaching here in HB. Then, today hit - yeah, not going to enjoy it much if it keeps going on like this. I was talking with Chantelle yesterday and today about this, and she is of the same mind. When I mentioned that one third of new Ontario teachers leave the profession in the first five years, she said that she doesn't think she will even make it that long. She is very disillusioned with the expectations put on teachers. She told me that she is seriously looking at government jobs which will pay the same as a teacher makes, but with way less stress and certainly better hours. I'm feeling the same way!
For the last four days, Dad has been very busy with census stuff. He's been visiting with more establishment people trying to get them on board with organizing who is going to be doing the census collecting and meeting with a collector to go over the info from their area. He has also been going through our boxes one by one and putting the items in the boxes away (you know the old saying, a place for everything and everything in its place). He's also been working on preparations for the Family History Open House Day which will be on July 30th. He is one busy boy!
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