1st lesson in Celebration!

So it's been a little bit sicne my last update! Sorry about that, they keep us pretty busy down here! So this weekend went by really fast! Steph and I had an adventure on Sunday finding a church that was about 45 mins away from Celebration. The service was great, just what we needed to hear and everyone was so friendly and welcoming. It helps when you're so far from home to have nice people aroung you. After church, Steph and I tried to find a library to work at so we could have access to printers and have a little bit of a quiet environment to work in... well after about 2 hours of driving in the POURING rain, we finally found it! We got most of our work done and headed back to Celebration. Why do weekends always go so fast?

Today was a good day at school. I taught my first Science (mini) lesson. The kids had library today which cut Science time in half, so I only had about 20 minutes for my lesson. I read the kids a book about animal shelters and had a discussion about different animals. The kids were all very engaged and I am also learning a lot about the Florida wildlife as well! I felt that my lesson went well and I am glad I was able to ease into teaching. We'll see how tomorrow's Science lesson goes!

The kids do seem to be opening up a bit more to me each day. Many of them ask me questions about Ohio and things we have there ("Miss Pore, do you have firetrucks in Ohio?" haha.. yes we have fires in Ohio too.) One boy came up to me and showed me a part in a book he was reading that talked about Cleveland. He was so excited to show me!

Today after school, my teacher and Steph and I went a workshop on Singapore Math. It was a bunch of different strategies to share with kids about adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with larger numbers. It was very interesting and definitely something I'll be able to add to a resume. Awesome!

So the rest of this week I am teaching science then next week we only have three days and I'll be teaching science and math (not my favorite to teach :( ). One of the other days is a teacher work day before Spring Break and one of the days is a field trip to the ZOO!!! Ahh I'm excited! So I will definitely be updating about that fun trip!

Love you all and miss you every day!

This is the bulletin board that greeted me on my first day of school at Celebration! It made me feel very welcome there.