Oh what a day...

***I was actually going to post yesterday and then Blogger wasn't working. Go figure. Smart me, I copied and pasted before I lost my entry.***

Oh man. I am exHAUSted. I was at work by 8 a.m. today because I was running a field trip program -- 60 fourth graders, 4 lesson plans, 3 hours. Which turned into 4. I was SCARED. Nervous. I think it turned out...okay. I still have a lot to learn, that's for sure. Hard to work with 60 kids at once, hard to work within time constraints. Just plain hard. But at least I made it out alive. And I *hope* the kids learned*something*. *ANYTHING*.

All this time I was thinking that I wanted to teach fourth grade...but now I'm thinking not. I really have a lot of practice yet -- don't have as much command over a classroom as I should. Kids don't listen to me as much as I'd like and I really have to exert authority a bit more. Not that I want to be on a power trip, but some of the kids I was working with today would just not behave no matter what I did.

I can tell already that my first year teaching with my own classroom is going to be a lot of work. It'll be interesting to see how my blog changes, no? Exciting :)