Lizzards! Oh my!

So today was the end of my fourth day at the Celebration school. I can't believe that it is already Thursday! So the past few days were really good at school. Everyone at school is so friendly and welcoming and they all ask me how it's going and how I'm doing. I've also been learning a lot about the Florida Education system and how similar and different it is from what we do in Ohio.

It was so funny on Tuesday, my teacher and I took our class to a park across the street from the school for recess and on our way back I told the kids that I had never seen a lizzard before (apparently they are all over the place down here) so they all got excited and started scavenging for one on our way back to the school. One boy actually found and caught one and showed it to me! The kids hardcore freaked out becuase it was biting the boy, but he seemed to be fine with it. My teacher told him to put it back down! The kids were so amazed that we don't have lizzards up in Ohio. I was also informed that there have been sightings of wild boars around Celebration and that they can be dangerous.. so my next animal experience may be a wild boar!

The kids seem to be warming up to me as I am in and around the classroom. They are actually writing a story about me and it is called, "Miss Pore is Stuck to the Floor". They are all coming up with how I got stuck to the floor and then how I will get unstuck from the floor. They are all having a lot of fun with it. My teacher had her last year's class make a book called "Mr. Jansing is Dancing" and they had to figure out how to stop her from dancing all the time. I'm looking forward to reading about how I get unstuck from the floor!

The thing that is really interesting to me being in a culture that is different from what I have known and am used to is that kids are kids nomatter where you go. I have many different races and ethnicities and religions represented in my class and yet, they are just like the kids I have always worked with before. I have recieved hugs ALREADY from these kids who barely know me and are so different from me. I am so thankful that I have the opportunity to work with different types of students and gain even more experience in a diverse setting.

I start teaching Science on Monday! Ahhh! Hopefully not knowing the standards and the culture too well, my teaching won't be affected too much!
More updates later!
I miss you all very much!