YAY!

So i didn't want to leave you all hang'in about the hip-hop class!:) I had my first class today and it was awsome! I would totally love to do more hip-hop! i am sad that i am only going to be there for 4 of the sessions. Anwyaz, totally the best!
So more teaching is underway. i have been doing nothing but writting lesson plans this last weekend, and week. I feel like the work is never done. The thing is that i feel like i could do so much a better job once i learn all the little stuff and i stop having to do the formalities (like write lesson plans). I wish that i just knew how to teach everything and then woking with the kids would be no problem. but i am so unsure of myself and so my teaching is not as good, and i think the kids can tell, but i am stating to do more disipline, so that is helping alot. Anwayz, school is school. I am about to rant:

So THE STUPID NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT is RUINING my LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

let me explain: Because some guy (who shall remain nameless) got this "great" idea to make sure that no child is ever left behing in math and reading, adn apparently no one thought throught the consequences of this..... (pause for a yell of frusteation). ANwyaz, children are still going to be left behind, because gues what, parents don't get involved, don't read to thier children, and basiclly seem to think they should have no involvment in the childs learning. (ok, so not all parents, but a lot). So if there is no home suppot the school and the one teacher the child has per year can not fix everything, so guess what, children still aren't going to be at the "right" level! Anwyaz... because the US gov. thinks that tests are the best way to assess knowledge (so we can ensure NCLB) is to take a standerized test. WEll news flash.... it takes more to being a good teacher than being able to take a standerdized test. You can do great on that test and suck as a teacher. Whoptiy do! We don;t seem to value good teachers in the US, simply teachers who can get thier students to get the highest test scores. So besides being bad for students and teachers, it is one more stupid step the gov't makes us take to become a teache. For heavens sake, i just want to teach aleady! Stop with all of you hullablaloo and let me teach! Thankfully the state of Iowa is fighting very much against the feds to make this better. Thank goodness someone knows that its stupid!
Anwayz.. End Rant.

in other news, i went to this totally awsome worship thing the other night, and it was like 2 1/2 hs long, but did not seem that way. I was amazed that i could sit though some one talking for an hour with out going crazy. But he talked abotu being made in teh image of God, and how we are made in teh image of God and we are the crown of his creation, just like othe gods of other cultures are the crown of the temple, God made us the crown of his temple(or creation). but i think i just murdred the talk. But it was good, worship was good, good. I guess even the people who support and made NCLB are made in the image of God and i have to love them in a Christ like manner. *sigh* its so hard sometimes.

back to school... i am teaching math and phonics!:) hahahah, my two worst subjects in school:) but all is well.
have a good day!:)