update

So my Radiology career is on hiatus. Long story short I couldn't hack it because I'm a horrible unstudious person. I failed a class twice so in order to finish this program I'd have to start ALL. OVER. AGAIN at the end of my first year. Um no. The decision was made easier by the fact my student loans wasn't planning on loaning me anymore money. So 7 years of part time/full time school and 10,000 later I have pretty much nothing to show for it. Yeah I'm proud. not. I would stull like to do it, but honestly? Kids are my passion but I'm not sure anymore. I still work at the daycare, but I'm mostly with the babies and toddlers now. It's different for sure.

Where have I been?

Let's see in June I "retired" from the preschool room. I moved into the infant room and fell in love all over again with babies. Even the screaming ones. Now I'm a pool teacher and go wherever I'm needed. It's fun to see the kids I met when I started in the Preschool room now.

I also got into my Radiology program so I've been busy with that. I guess that's it. My PM medicine is starting to work zzzzzzzzzzzz

why?

Qhy is my boss such a micromanager?
Why is one of the women here such a tattle tale? Seriously aren't we adults?
Why is Ruth back? I was hoping she was gone for good.

This week we are learning about friendship. I talked to them about how to treat your friends and not to say things that will hurt them since you can't take it back.

This group of kids plays together so well. It is a complete about face from last year.

On the sensory take I have put the kaliedescope and the stacker blocks. I also put out a few more puzzles since the younger ones are putting things away almost all the time now.

One of my students has been gone for about a month and a half. We took him off the roster after receiving to call backs to our inquiries. We mainly deal with the dad so when mom came in all beaten up with a broken arm I figured she was in a wreck. Turns out dad is a bi polar drunk who lost his shit and is in jail now. Apparently little guy was there when it happened and I can't imagine the shape he will be in when he comes back.

Halloween

I love planning Halloween crafts. But since we aren't allowed to celebrate holidays for fear of offending another religion we have to make them generic. For example, instead of Merry Christmas it's Happy Holidays. We can't do Santa's or god, but reindeer and snomen are fair game. For Halloween we can't have a party with Witches and skeletons, but it's okay to have a "Harvest Party" with Pumpkins. zzzzz boring. But we make do, you do what you have to I guess.

In October we had Autumn, Safety, Pumpkins, and colors. We generally do a topic a week and it is picked out a year in advance. Some teachers like myself make up our own occasionally. I went all out for Halloween making pumpkins with faces to glue on, counting games, I even made some ghosts lol. I couldn't help myself. We had a "harvest party" were the kids were allowed to bring costumes to "play dress up". I made little goody bags with bubbles, twizzlers, and coloring books. It was a fun time.

I'm not sure if I mentioned it on here or not, but recently my co teacher accepted a new position elsewhere. That, coupled with the fact that half our class left for Kindergarten my boss decided to keep it at 12 kids. 3 or 4 of them have parents that work seasonally or have Title 20 so they are only allowed to bring the kids if they work. Generally I have about 9 kids or less by myself and they all play really well together. It's been a breeze since my co-teacher left. I miss talking to her, but she didn't really help a whole lot craft/lesson wise so it's not like I had to all of a sudden pick those things up.

I have two boys in my class who are 3. They are both named Julian and I say their names ALL dAY LONG! lol. Julian H! Julian C! STOP!! They are going to drive me to drink soon I think. Then in the afternoon I get another one from the other class. AHHHHHH!!!!! First it was Gabe's and now it's Julians.

I'm doing well in college, I had to take a physics class this year since it turns out that was holding me back from beginning my Radiology program. I was pretty ticked when I found that out this summer, but I'm trying to look at it in a good way I get to be with "my kids" another year so it's not all bad.

My mind is wandering around so I just wanted to post these two sites I found that my daughter enjoys doing on the computer.

1. www.starfall.com
2. They Might be Giants - Seven on youtube.com

Too Chubby Cheek'd?

Rae one 4 year old in my class was talking to our pool teacher today about a new little boy in our class.

Rae: "Jimmy is a really nice boy"
teacher: "yes he is"
Rae: "I wouldn't ever marry him though"
Teacher: *trying not to laugh* "why is that?"
Rae: "He's really cute and nice, but his cheeks are too chubby."
Teacher: *Definitely trying not to laugh* "Oh Rae!" lol

She has been loving on that boy ever since he came into our class, but I guess the romance is over!

Not Busy

I've just been hanging out lately. I'm feeling a bit unbalanced emotionally. Not crazy, just really anxious and i've been taking my medicine correctly so I can't understand why. Our census level is really low so I've taken two days off this week. There is not much else to talk about :) I hope to have some pictures of our rock crafts that were done this week.

Growing up

My little girl turned 5 this weekend. We had her party at a gymnastics place. There's no room for that sort of thing At my house. It was a good day and great weekend. Last night we were sitting on the couch and she tells me "I have these things on my legs and when I pull them off they hurt!" my first thought was a tick or something. I look At her and don't see anything so I ask her what she's talking about? "They are thin things with a ball At the end." she then starts pulling At the hair on her leg! Its tiny, fine, white hair but apparently she noticed it and has been pulling it out! LOL Poor kid!

The boys that used to be in my care are giving their moms a hard time about Kindergarten. Here At preschool most of our learning is done through games and there it is more grown up. Not to mention most boys do not like to sit still anyway and they aren't with eachother so its been a big change for them. Both of their mothers love them but coddle and let them get away with things they shouldn't and its coming back to bite them now. I wish I knew what to tell them without sounding condescending. I would like to have a talk with one of the boys about the treatment of his mother even though its not my place. I fully believe that if no one tells them its not okay how are they going to change? I wonder how dad treats her if the kid thinks its okay to talk to her like that? I hope I'm raising my daugter to be a strong woman to not out up with people like that in her life.