The Newest Second Grade Class... a.k.a Miss Waters' class

May I begin by saying, HOORAY for the weekend! Monday started my first week back to school with students and it has been an exhausting week. Just getting up early and then standing on my feet for 8 hours on a concrete floor, it was all I could do to put my feet on the floor the next morning. It has been a very productive first week and I've got a great bunch of students, who are very eager to learn. I also have some "rounders" who like to try my patience every minute of the day. Everyday I remind myself they are just over grown 1st graders and they just want my love. This is my largest group of 2nd graders, 22 students. I am also having to get use to all of the students calling Mrs. Turner. Most of them knew me as Miss Waters, so I'm called both, mostly by former students. I must admit though, after six years of being Miss Waters, I think I like the sound of Mrs. Turner! So here is a run down of the week:

Monday - after about 4 hours of sleep, simply because I never can sleep before the first day of school I was up and off to work by 6:45. Hall duty, meet the kids, deal with a hystical child, teach procedures, lunch, P.E. math, MUSIC (on what a relief to have an enrichment on Monday afternoons), snack, science, social studies, and THEN sending the children home. I finally make it home around 5:30, get dinner prepared, go for a run, and then relax while I eat. Aaron was recording after work so he came home late. Tuesday was much of the same, by Wednesday I was starting to get use to the pain and throbbing in my legs and feet. After teaching all day on Wednesday it was off to church, which was fantastic, but by the time I made it home, it was all I could do to walk in the door. Thursday and Friday went very smoothly. The majority of the kids have the procedures down and they will help each other if someone forgets.

However, I have 5 students who really try me each and every day. For example: the students must have a bus sticker on to get on the bus. This is just another way we can make sure the kids are getting on the correct bus. Well I send my Gill 1 students out, all have bus stickers. In a minute we have an announcement, "TEACHERS PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR STUDENTS HAVE BUS STICKERS ON, WE WILL NOT PUT THEM ON THE BUS WITHOUT A STICKER" I give it no thought because all of mine had a sticker. My door opens and a teacher is bringing me one of my kids (with no bus sticker) back in my room. He decided to just remove his sticker and throw it away because he didn't need it. I gave him another sticker and he had a private escort to the bus. He did the same thing on Friday, before he made it to my room as well. The students get their stickers as they get off the bus, he just decided he didn't want to wear his. For him, it will make my life a little easier when we no longer wear bus stickers. Only one more week to go with those.

Now yesterday I was able to leave earlier, ran some errands and headed home. I just decided to lay down for a minute and when I woke up it was 6:15. YIKES!!! I quickly threw the ingredients for our pizza dough in the breadmachine, and went about gathering the materials to make our homemade pizza. It was delicious and even better this afternoon for lunch. We had pepperoni and Mediterranean Alfredo Pizza.






Mediterranean Alfredo Pizza

1 Pizza Crust (I used homemade)
1/3 cup Alfredo sauce (leftovers can be used to dip the crust in)
8 to 10 fresh spinach leaves
1 cup fresh mushrooms
1 small tomato chopped
4 canned artichoke hearts
1 ½ teaspoons oregano
Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
1 cup cooked chicken

Make Pizza Crust, place items on top of pizza crust and bake according to the directions.


Saturday - so Aaron (who has today off) and I decided we were going to sleep in and just enjoy the day. Needless to say I guess our bodies are just use to getting up early and we were both up by 6:30. He's done his training for his Triathlon, put together a bed, and cut the grass. I've cleaned the house and I'm working on laundry. Aaron is watching something on T.V. with his eyes closed, which sounds like a great idea. I think I hear the Temperpedic calling my name...yep it is. An afternoon nap, sounds like an awesome plan.