We're not Cavemen!

Well, I didn't do the math lesson today, that was a relief! I'm doing it Monday and we went over everything so I'll be ready. I feel much more confident now!
I realized that I may not have made the best impression on some of the people in the school because I didn't actually introduce myself to anyone that I worked with other than Beth on the first day. Beth did introduce me to the Principle, but I didn't really talk to him or thank him for letting me come into his school or anything. I decided I should probably try to make a better impression, so I started with the front office. The first day I had gone in and said I was Mrs. Foose's student teacher and someone walked me over to her room, but I didn't introduce myself to anyone or really talk to anyone, so Wednesday morning I went back in and talked to them a bit and introduced myself. I asked them if I need to sign in with them every morning and they said no, but still just come check in with them, so I'll make a point every morning to walk in and ask how they're doing. Next time, I think I'll work on teacher's lounge socializing. haha
The teacher's lounge is actually an interesting place. Apparently, the elementary teacher's lunch is the best to attend. I may have to start having a special "teacher's lounge edition" each time.
This time, my student, Izzie, whom I'm doing my reading and writing assessments with, wasn't there so I didn't get anything done for that. Katrina, who I am doing my math assessment and classroom management project with was there so I observed her and got a lot figured out.
Other than that, as far as work for my classes goes, I didn't do a whole lot, but I worked with some students on reading and writing things. That was fun. We pushed into a third grade classroom to help one of our students who had been absent a few days, and one of the kids in that class had a little crush on me. It was cute. He was looking for something in the classroom and couldn't find it and I saw it so I pointed it out to him. After that he kept looking over at me and I when I would look back he would blush and smile. :) It was too cute.
I have a few quotes of the day from my kids because they made me laugh:
Katrina is an avoider. She doesn't like to do work and gets frustrated easily with hard work. She tends to drag things out to waste time and will always take forever to answer a question whether she knows the answer or not. There were ten pennies in front of her and we asked her how many there were. We had been working on ten pennies going into a dime so she knew there were ten pennies in front of her, but she made a big show of waving her finger over them and counting out loud really fast to twelve before she finally said "ten." It was obvious she knew the answer and she could have just said "ten" but she had to waste time making a big show of counting them. Anyway, my actual quote of the day was when she had a bunch of random numbers in front of her and she had to put them in order from lowest to highest. She took her sweet time and kept getting them wrong on purpose then correcting herself. But when she got to the last number she said "And then, of course, the great, the only.......88." She said it so dramatically I laughed out loud, which I shouldn't have done. Oh well, it was funny.
My second quote of the day was from Jon. We were reading about the American flag and how it's changed over the years and Beth asked the students how we know what the flag looked like before now and Jon says "because we have internet." Now, this quote is funny enough in itself, because I can just imagine him thinking that before we had internet we didn't know anything and then all of a sudden internet was invented and we had all this knowledge that just came from the internet. It was even funnier, however, when Beth turned and asked what he said and he says to her "We're not cavemen! We have technology!" He sounded to triumphant and proud!
Also, the two boys we have at the end of the day are Jase and Justin, who I think are hilarious together, so you'll probably be hearing stories about them eventually.