Little late

So it's been a little while since my last post. I sorta forgot about blogging, with school starting and all the stuff that was going on in my day to day life it just slipped my mind. So for an over view, really quick rehash- the school year is over (thanks goodness). I never thought I would meet such a lazy bunch of teachers in my career. People who just honestly are there to collect a pay check and have lost whatever it was that got them interested or passionate about teaching in the first place, if there ever really was something there to begin with. I had two of the most awful girls on my team this year, that were just horrible to work with. Everything was about trying to make themselves look good to admin. and do the least amount of work possible. No matter what I tried they didn't care at all to improve their teaching techniques or habbits because heaven forbid they actually put in a little work at the end of the day. And the most ridicious thing about it all was they had the principal so wrapped about their fingers that he actually supported and defended them if anyone ever said anything. So basically I spent the year getting frustrated and not feeling like I had a voice, even in my own classroom. Not saying all their ideas were useless, I did learn a lot about centers which I didn't really know before. And centers are a great thing to add to your bag of tricks as a teacher. For my own sake in remembering all the thing we did here are a list of the activities we did in centers daily: 1: listening center, abc order of spelling words, decodable reader. 2: vocabulary 4 corners, spelling words x3, spelling memory. 3: Graphic organizer from the story, create spelling word search, spelling go fish. 4: spelling cut and paste phonogram, vocab. memory, spelling tic tac toe. I also had centers for intervention which included: poetry, writing center, create a sentence, abc order, and working with me where I would do the decodable reader for the story of the week, and also work on other phonics or reading skill worksheets. Or work on the focus skill of the week, ex. main idea/detail, fact opinion, sequence, authors purpose etc.

Anyway thats enough for today, it's now summer vaca and I wanted to spend some time this morning trying on some new pregnancy clothes I bought yesterday and cleaning up a little around the house before I have my dr. apt today. I'll post again soon now that I remember I started this.