Last semester of college

This semester has been flying by already. All my classes are with the same 14 girls and we have really gotten to know a lot about each other and have become very close. We spend most days practicing our teaching and if we are not practicing we are pretending to be elementary students.I have now become a pro at morning sing-alongs (not to mention the silly little dances that go along with them), reading picture books,raising my hand, show and tell, handwriting and last but not least... sitting Indian style(cross legged). These are all things that have consumed my 7 hour school days, and I'm absolutely loving it.

My show and tell the first week of class was Crowley, my new puppy that Brad and I just got. Brad had brought Crowley to class so that my prof and all my girlfriends could meet and see Crowley. She was loved by all:) It was also funny cause Brad's face was beat red when he came into my class...I don't think he has every been surrounded by so many women.



I consider this semester to be my "how to..." semester, meaning that I am learning how to teach math, science, social studies and language arts. I never thought I would say this but school is actually fun and I look forward to going everyday. Each week we get to teach a lesson in these subject areas, which has been helpful because we get to practice both writing lesson plans as well as get to teach.

This week we had to design our ideal classroom and provide a rational as to why we chose the layout we did, now I wont bore you with my 4 page rational but I was thinking it would be kinda cool to share my classroom with you.

So here is my ideal classroom



and to end this post I will share a couple more picture of my adorable little puppy:)