school

this is Vinnie...he is my new little buddy at school. While Ihave plenty of other kids that are super cute, or that I just happen to have a huge soft spot for....I have to say, Vinnie is my favorite. He came just for the summer or that was the plan, but thankfully his parents have decided that he is going to stay. I am so excited. He is just an awesome little guy and he always comes up to say hi and make me smile after a kid has issues.
the rest of the class is going well also, and this picture is from one of the many fun things we have done iwth them. we love shaving cream and water , so we like to combine them and save ourselves a little bit of work by letting the kids clean the chairs.

these are my little monsters. I found a picture of them online and I thought they were adorable. They sadly did not come out as well as I would have liked but they are still very very cute.

we are doing a literature based curriculum this year at school and each teacher gets one book per month to write the lesson plan on. One of my books was "there was an old monster" so in my hunt for fun things to do I found these guys and I thought they would be very fun to play with.

so much else going on, with friends, adam, school, my school, the house, family and just fun fun fun but that is all for now.

a new job...

Jared
Marcus
Dylan
Cade
Akosa
Ava
Alyssa
Taryn
Gabs
Simon
Kenya
Keira

then the new kids
Justin
Caleb
Isela
Emma
Adrian
Dylan

this is my new class. and my new job. Unfortunately I only have one picture of one kid so far, but in the new few weeks i will be taking more pictures hpoefully because A few kids will be moving up soon.
Well, its been a bit of learning, and a lot of fun, and a lot of learning names and personalities etv.
I have definately loved every minute at this new school of mine. i have had 2 days of being the only teacher in the room, and many afternoons of being the only teacher in the room and starting this summer I will always be the only one. It has been fun, the director said the one day I planned on my own she was impressed. It has been great, I seem to be able to keep the kids engaged and listening etc.
This summer we are planning a mad science summer so that should be very fun. I am excited to see how it turns out, and then next year we are going to be a little more structured with themes based on books and such. I am excited about that because it will be fun to have a little mroe struture than what we have currently, because currently nothing needs to be planned so its way to easy to slack off, and it seems that many people do.
I really enjoy the kids although I do have my favorites....they would be Jared, Alyssa and Cade. I also have the ones that are hard, Dylan( who is impossible for everyone and thankfully only has 2 days left at this school), Marcus who is just becoming a butt for everyone lately, and then Adrian who is my little friend/nightmare/project all at the same time. He had a very rough start and I have a soft spot for him and he seems to really like me and go to me for things so Im hoping him and i can figure tihngs out together, so far his mom is happy, with me he has napped, and pooped on the potty which never happened with the other school he was at. so we will see how much he improves.
Overall I have to say that minus my other teacher being a negative nancy I love the kids, I love the activities, and I love the job. Its definately amazing and I think it will only get better.

"its official"

well its sort of official.
I am done with community college classes.
I have my AA degree in early childhood education.
My histroy class is DONE!!!

now technically I have not received confirmation from saddleback about the approval for my degree, but when I met with the counselor she said I had everything done. and saddleback said it could take until September for them to review my petition and let me know officially.
so because of that we are just going to say that I have finished!!!! and officially have one piece of paper.
it makes me happy to not have to deal with that any more. now just about a year at ashford and I will have the 4 year degree in 6 years...so im a little slow...oh well, at least it happened.

my first class at ashford is over next week and it has gone very well. I have gotten 100% on everything except one quiz which was my own fault for rushing. but its great, love the set up, teachers are helpful, advisors are helpful and my they love to send emails and make phone calls.
its great...now just waiting for them to get all my transcripts so I know for sure what classes i still need.

AU

I finally agreed/started my BA program!!!
yay for me.

This week class started on Tuesday, but I could see everything on friday.
By MONDAY all of my work for this week was done.
I actually did all the reading too
I love one of the books, it has really interesting perspectives and tons of quotes on the sides of the pages(I love quotes, need a new book full of them).
the other book is a normal text book but its fine.
ive talked online with people in the class and there are a lot of military people which is amazing to me.
there is even a cool tutor thing that i can chat live with someone, or just send questions, or send them my paper for them to proof it and what not.

its great....hopefully,
within a year(maybe less depending on how many credits transfer, how many classes i can test out of, and how many times I take 2 classes at once)

I may not enjoy school. but I will be happy to get the paper that says after all this time I actually accomplished something.

and so the last HOPEFULLY year of school begins!