Math Rocks! (sometimes)

To say I now know this song word for word and will help six of my most handsome and N'Sync like boys sing/dance to it at the Staars Pep Rally in April . . . well, that would be perfectly true.  :)

I know a lot of ya'll have been wondering how teaching is going for me, and now after 4 weeks, I guess I have a better grasp on how it is going myself . . . .  It has definitely been hard getting adjusted in the middle of the school year, for me and my students.  I have really good days, and some not so good days.  I come home elated at times, and then I come home ready to quit.  Not only have I started teaching, but I have started a job, and that is new for me too, since I haven't had one since I was pregnant with Cameron.

But, I think this past Friday sums up the multitude of emotions that have flowed these last few weeks.  I finally picked up my degree (the actually hard copy) on Thursday night, so I wanted to show my students the next day my DIPLOMA!  :)  I told them the story of how I wanted to be a mom, put Josh through school, had babies, and then finally went back to school after walking Cameron into her kindergarten classroom.  I told them how hard I had to work going to school at nights, and so on.  I told them that as I look around my classroom--my bulletin boards, my stuff, my students--that this is where I had worked so hard to be, and they wouldn't find anyone anywhere who wanted to be there, teaching math to them, than me.  Of course I might have shed a few tears (I think they know I'm crazy by now), but they did too.  I got lots of hugs and cards (with NASA rockets on them--they know me).  It was a great day. 

I know there will be many ups and downs, motivating sixth graders is a challenge all in itself, but it is so rewarding to think I might inspire the next NASA astronaut or . . . teacher.  There is really no place I would rather be (now, I'll just have to tell myself that about 1000 times tomorrow when I can't get them to listen).  :) 

But until then . . . I'll be singing, "Perimeter is the outside . . . you just add.  Area is the inside . . . it's good!"  :)