Me: I yelled at a student today. Andrew: I yelled at my whole class today. Venting occurs. The good news: we both love teaching.
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The Life of a Student Teacher
I am kind of amazed that I have been doing this student teaching thing for almost a month and even more amazed that I only have 3 1/2 weeks left in the high school…aka it’s the halfway point of the halfway point! Andrew and I have settled into a nice routine of leaving the house…
Teaching with Legos
I have now taught for 2 days, which means I have also met all of my students (140+) with the block schedule. During the first two or three days of the quarter there are lots of schedule changes, so I was advised to not teach anything too important. I resurrected an activity we did in college called…
Hiking Donut Falls
Being in the teaching profession, we relish days off right along with cute kindergartners carrying cartoon covered lunch boxes and high school males that haven’t shaved…ever. Today we took some time to go on a short but beautiful hike to Donut Falls. This is a hike I first heard about almost 2 years ago to the date (January…
Apparently my life is a sitcom.
At least that is what an old friend told me after finding out both Andrew and myself teach technology related classes in middle and high school. I guess there are some unusual aspects to our life, such as finding it totally normal that Andrew left the house at 5am two mornings ago to go buy…
The Secret to Happiness.
I have discovered it. Wool socks. I have one pair that is probably three sizes too big with the heel coming closer to my calf than my ankle. I stuffed my feet into my shoes (probably stretching them out but I’ll worry about that in the spring) and wore pants long enough to hide my…
Deep Freeze
It is a bit chilly here. The nice man on the radio at 6:30am announced that this is the coldest Utah has been here since 1996. We left the house with this weather: When it hits 0 my mind automatically switches to Celsius, but no, it is way colder than 32 F. I just can’t…
Things are not as they seem.
A few weeks ago Andrew and I went to check out the candy windows at the Gateway Mall on Temple Square. It was soooooo cold (here is a view out of our car window to prove it – lots of snow). We decided to cut through the mall and walk across the sky bridge to…