What a busy/hectic week! Sorry that I have been gone for so long but life has just been a happening. Monday night I came home from school with a POUNDING headache and my stomach wrenching. Needless to say I came home and landed directly on the couch - Kiana whining the whole time; I couldn't even make myself get up to let her out of her crate - that bad! A little later [or so it seemed] Karl came home and carried me [yes!] to the bedroom and I slept from 5 - 10 pm!!!! I only woke up the few times that he came and checked on me and that was it - he even let Kiana lay up in the bed with me. I really liked that, a lot, even though she wasn't really 100% keen on the whole idea. She just wanted to walk around and get into my face. Anyway, I woke up ate a wonderful pb&j made by the master of pb&j, Karl, and some chips then went back to bed and didn't wake up until 6:30 the next morning. Crazy, huh?!
Yesterday, after a LONG day at work . . . did I say LONG???? Cuz it was! Anyway, after a long day at work yesterday, I went to grab some groceries real quick [which mostly consisted of ice cream - oops!] and made a mad dash home to change before heading out to Mertzon for dinner with the in-laws. We had a great time together, enjoyed some brisket, and watched some NCIS! Woohoo! Love that show! We got home late late late last night so no blogging for me.
So here it is, now day 12 . . . today. Wow, what a day. At school we did a lot of catching up from the craziness that has been our schedule the past two weeks. I had a proud-teacher moment today which keeps making me smile just thinking about it. One of my students that I have been working with for a while who just really wasn't on the reading level that I had hoped for him to be, which to make this make more sense to you is a 1.5 according to the Accelerated Reader scale, or first grade, fifth month. Basically this means that the nation believes that a child performing at a 1.5 is performing as though they are in their fifth month of first grade. That's it summed up. Anyway, this student had been wanting to test and we just didn't have the time - his last score was a 1.2, three months below where I would like for him to be. Today, one month from his last test, he improved THREE MONTHS and is now on a 1.5 reading level!!!!!! I think my eyes about popped out of my skull when I saw his score! It was a great feeling and you could see the pride that he had - he was so glad that he was close to being able to read chapter books. :D
Church tonight was really great and made me think a lot about my walk. We basically talked about resting in God - in other words, allowing Him to use our gifts [which are from Him] for His will and allowing that to happen. It also went into the idea that what He has laid on our hearts is what we are to do PERIOD. I have constantly been hearing things from Him about my teaching and ways to better my relationship with my students' parents and, basically, how to teach them to be teachers of their children. This is something that I have been called into lately and I feel that I need to be better about - after all, I am a teacher, right? Outside of my bettering my "teaching" I feel that I have been called to write a children's book of some sort. I am not 100% sure on what yet - and I haven't been asking for it, either - but I know that He will show me something when I ask Him to.
Exercise: Nada, absolutely nothing. Our elliptical came in at good ole Wally World so we need to go pick it up so I can get the ball rolling. :)
Word: Outside of the Word, I also feel that God has been revealing to me the importance of passion and how He has really wired me to be a very passionate person in all things really. This morning I heard on the radio how when we are not really passionate about things you can tell through our actions, such as being late for work when you don't really want to be there. When you are passionate about something you show it through your actions as well - you are at work earlier than everyone else or the last to leave. Lately, I have been allowing other things to get in the way of my passion for teaching and you could tell through my actions. I need to remember to keep my passion in perspective because if I focus on all the little [and sometimes big] things that go wrong, it's just hindering me in fulfilling God's will for my life.
And with that, I leave you with this . . . "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." Spoken by Hyman Rickover.
Yesterday, after a LONG day at work . . . did I say LONG???? Cuz it was! Anyway, after a long day at work yesterday, I went to grab some groceries real quick [which mostly consisted of ice cream - oops!] and made a mad dash home to change before heading out to Mertzon for dinner with the in-laws. We had a great time together, enjoyed some brisket, and watched some NCIS! Woohoo! Love that show! We got home late late late last night so no blogging for me.
So here it is, now day 12 . . . today. Wow, what a day. At school we did a lot of catching up from the craziness that has been our schedule the past two weeks. I had a proud-teacher moment today which keeps making me smile just thinking about it. One of my students that I have been working with for a while who just really wasn't on the reading level that I had hoped for him to be, which to make this make more sense to you is a 1.5 according to the Accelerated Reader scale, or first grade, fifth month. Basically this means that the nation believes that a child performing at a 1.5 is performing as though they are in their fifth month of first grade. That's it summed up. Anyway, this student had been wanting to test and we just didn't have the time - his last score was a 1.2, three months below where I would like for him to be. Today, one month from his last test, he improved THREE MONTHS and is now on a 1.5 reading level!!!!!! I think my eyes about popped out of my skull when I saw his score! It was a great feeling and you could see the pride that he had - he was so glad that he was close to being able to read chapter books. :D
Church tonight was really great and made me think a lot about my walk. We basically talked about resting in God - in other words, allowing Him to use our gifts [which are from Him] for His will and allowing that to happen. It also went into the idea that what He has laid on our hearts is what we are to do PERIOD. I have constantly been hearing things from Him about my teaching and ways to better my relationship with my students' parents and, basically, how to teach them to be teachers of their children. This is something that I have been called into lately and I feel that I need to be better about - after all, I am a teacher, right? Outside of my bettering my "teaching" I feel that I have been called to write a children's book of some sort. I am not 100% sure on what yet - and I haven't been asking for it, either - but I know that He will show me something when I ask Him to.
Exercise: Nada, absolutely nothing. Our elliptical came in at good ole Wally World so we need to go pick it up so I can get the ball rolling. :)
Word: Outside of the Word, I also feel that God has been revealing to me the importance of passion and how He has really wired me to be a very passionate person in all things really. This morning I heard on the radio how when we are not really passionate about things you can tell through our actions, such as being late for work when you don't really want to be there. When you are passionate about something you show it through your actions as well - you are at work earlier than everyone else or the last to leave. Lately, I have been allowing other things to get in the way of my passion for teaching and you could tell through my actions. I need to remember to keep my passion in perspective because if I focus on all the little [and sometimes big] things that go wrong, it's just hindering me in fulfilling God's will for my life.
And with that, I leave you with this . . . "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." Spoken by Hyman Rickover.
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