First Day of Term 2

Last night it was hard to go to bed early, and this morning it was even harder to get up early. I was so tired this morning at school, I could hardly function. Yuck. Fortunately, my energy level picked back up in the afternoon. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.


Each day I am finding it harder and harder to focus on teaching. I have some Serious Senioritis Syndrome going on down here. I was just telling Melanie that I can’t think about anything besides getting home, celebrating with family and friends on graduation weekend, summer time, and teaching first grade! With all of those exciting things about to take place, is it hard to
imagine that I would be having a hard time focusing? I didn’t think so! :) Thankfully I had Melanie to remind me to soak it in while we are here, because we will be leaving before we know it! Which is SO true, but it’s just SO hard!


So tomorrow I am teaching a math lesson on percentages, decimals, and equivalent fractions. My teacher gave me a power point to go through with the students, so I’m feeling a bit more comfortable with taking over more lessons. One Wednesday I’ll be teaching math and reading. One interesting thing is that my Year 6 students are working on percents and facts and opinions
this week. Those are the same subjects that I taught to my third graders back in the States.


Some of us student teachers are feeling a bit frustrated and overwhelmed because we feel like we have such limited resources. We don’t have usernames or passwords to get on to the computers, we don’t have internet access, and we aren’t able to print anything either. So if we want to do anything for a lesson we have to ask our teacher to walk us through every step. That’s really
hard for us because we are all pretty competent teachers. I just can’t believe we only have seven and a half days left in the classroom…


I am finally about to finish Eat Pray Love. You’d think I would be finished by now considering the fact I think I started reading the book in September. For some reason, whenever a more appealing book came along, I’d pick that one up and put Eat Pray Love on pause. Once I came upon the end of the book, it got to be really good and now I’m bummed that I can’t stay up
late into the night to finish it! Mel is going to let me borrow The Lucky One tomorrow. I'm really excited to start reading that. She said she absolutely loves it. I just can't wait to finish it before I get back to the States so I can drag Max to see the movie with me! ;)


A couple more Aussie words that I don’t believe I’ve mentioned are:

Brekky - breakfast

“I reckon” – a phrase used when we would say, “I think”

Petrol – gas for cars (So they say they need to get petrol,
we say we need to get some gas.)

Hugs and love, friends!!
Xoxo