Just a quick update! :)  This past Friday was a great day for me, and I was able to take the lead for most of the day.  This week I'm leading math and I'm pretty nervous, but excited for it.  Today we had to do testing, but tomorrow I'll be teaching subtraction using regrouping.  I'm stealing the idea of using chex, pretzels, and cheerios to represent 100's, 10's, and 1's from a fellow teacher :)  If you look at my most recent post (other than this one :P) it gives explanations about how they can be used.  Although I'll be using them in a different way, it explains the gist of the idea.  Today I also introduced our marble jar to the kids.  Whenever they get compliments from us or other teachers, a marble goes into the jar.  Once the jar is filled we will vote as a class what we'd like our reward to be.  Some ideas so far are pajama day, extra recess, movie and popcorn, etc.  I'm excited to see what they'll choose and hopefully it'll help their behavior improve!  They're a great class, don't get me wrong, but I think it's extra motivation for them to be even better :)

Our marble jar!  Our mascot is a bear, so hence the cheesy title on the jar ;)  Today we earned 3 marbles and the marbles (blue & yellow) are our school colors.

On another note, I hate Monday evenings because my Math grad class is killing me!  Very sweet professor though :)

And on another 'nother note, I found out about some 'inaccurate' information from my last blog post.  Turns out Jen was super sweet and gave me the sign the day of my observation saying I'll do great, but Kelly (another teacher on our team) gave me the quote about making a difference in children's lives.  We actually found this out BECAUSE of my blog.  This miscommunication turned out to be very comical between the three of us :)  But regardless, I have such supportive teachers and mentors around me!