American Idol!!

So my favorite show started it's 11th season tonight!! I've watched every season! I have a great group of friends who watch it together and keep track of our favorites!! It's so fun!

I ate dinner at Big Orange tonight in West Little Rock. There is no comparison to their burgers...and chips.. and ice cream. Ok, so everything there rocks! It's one of my all time favorite places to eat but it's kind of $$ so it's a treat! (broke college girl here)

It was another slightly boring day of interning. I'm beyond ready to start doing some teaching and hoping that it will help move time along. I miss my 4th graders terribly!!!! I'm hoping to get some time to visit them soon! I did however get the class decorated for our new unit on early civilizations, which means i got to play with the hot glue gun!! I'm waiting until the new unit starts so I can start teaching and progress through the unit. I'm sooooooo ready!!

Were taking roughly 80 7th graders on an incentive field trip Friday. The students who went the first semester without referrals or SAC (in school suspension) get to attend a special field trip every semester. I'm anxious to see how that all plays out. 

Well I hope everyone had a great day!! Were half way through, only 2 more days until the weekend! Woooooo!!!

Much love,
-JW

Longest short day ever...

I gave myself a rare treat and went in to my internship 2 hours late and slept in!! I never sleep well when Kyle is gone so I struggled falling asleep last night. Despite it being a shorter day at the school for me, I felt it dragged on!! They are doing pre-registration for 8th grade so the counselor was giving them the how-to on the form. I had to listen to the same speech 6 times. Painful. The district I'm interning in decided to go to a 7 period school day next year which eliminates an entire elective option. With a 7 period class day they can choose a year long elective such as music, language, or sports. They also can choose one semester elective such as art, EAST, or P.E. This leaves students having to choose between sports and music. If the student scored below basic (low for their grade level) they only get one semester elective because they will have interventions or longer class times to remediate them. I find this SO frustrating!! It is not fair to those students to make them chose between the arts and sports or a language fulfillment. The students deserve the opportunity to explore the arts including band and choir as well as graphic design, family and consumer science, and finance classes. I feel it's our schools responsibility to introduce culture to these students whose parents can't or won't. Ugh. Frustration.

I'll get off my soap box now.

Besides that, the day has been pretty well!! I worked at one of my two part time jobs tonight and just got home. I'm currently curled up with my baby (my cat Rosey) and watching Parenthood, my all time favorite show!!!

So good night fellow bloggers and readers and I hope it's a great week!!