Thanks

I'm not sure if people will continue to look at this or not, but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for being so supportive yesterday, and I that I really enjoyed looking at everybody's art yesterday too. What a talented bunch!!!! It's so neat to see the many different ways people can take and interpret an idea. I felt like we were able to break some new ground and open up a bit more yesterday. Thanks to Zalika for giving us the opportunity to do this.

It's a bummer that we'll be all split up next week, but we will reunite in the fall!!!!!

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I am so blessed to be surrounded by all of you amazing people and having an instructor like Zalika. I know we're her favorites! ;) I feel like I have learned to be more patient with myself over these last few weeks. Having a child has helped too but I must say I am really impressed with everyone, really every single person in our cohort. I think we were grouped together for some special reason!! I haven't felt very supported in the professional field, and sure some of that is me (I am still acclimating to middle class culture) but a lot of the patience I am feeling is because I think of you, yes you, and I realize that we are all doing the best we can with what we have, where we are at now. I skated out a little fast for fear of crying in front of everyone. Tears of joy. I am excited about the fall and getting back to our group. I am sure the next two weeks will be a grand adventure but somehow, I think we would have had more fun if we had stuck together as a cohort! Anywho! Thank you all for all that you are. I am learning so much from everyone. Ditto to Zalika, see what a difference one person can make?

Thanks!

I just wanted to say that it's been really wonderful having all of you as classmates over the last 5 weeks. So many of your comments and blog posts have inspired me and challenged me to really examine and think deeply about my beliefs, values and ideas about education and society in general. So, thank you for that. Thank you for taking risks and supporting me when I got brave enough to take them. And a special thanks to Zalika for guiding us and giving us so much of yourself through your teaching. I really hope that we can continue to use this blog to support each other throughout the year and we can continue to discuss how to apply the things we have learned in this class to our future classrooms.

Bee bop bee bop bee bop boop

Yup, it's 3:19 am and I am still working on homework. This is indicative of many things. The first - I poorly planned my homework load for tomorrow and have therefore been spending many the hours homeworking it up. The second - the (evil) television has had many a great programs on demand this week. The third - the (sometimes evil?) internet has a plethora of interesting websites to peruse. 

Therefore for this blog post I shall not lament the passing of our time together in Zalika's class, but rather harold in the new classes, knowledge, homework, board games, alcoholic beverages, and fun that we shall have together with some of my late night findings. 

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ 

My favorite thus far is Miss Debbie's "Daycare."

https://www.schoolhousesupplies.org/teachers.html

This kind of seems too good to be true and I'm interested in how it really works...

http://scrapaction.org/

Neat, neat, neat.

Okay, so I actually am done with homework and now can't sleep. Hmph.

What is this? A center for ANTS!?

I've been listening to the adult alternative rock station on comcast for the past 678 hours that I've been portfolioing and arting and reflectioning and it just occurred to me that my work is TOTALLY being influenced by the sappy love songs. Hopefully for the better since I'm working on a poem of epic proportions right now.
On a serious note....I just wanna say, I love you guys. And no, I'm not drunk on white russians but I wish I was. True story. I feel like we are a great group of aspiring teachers who are striving to do more than just open a center for kids who can't read good and want to learn how to do other things good, we have higher expectations than that. And that's awesome! Keep going cohort 3, keep on keepin' on.


See you on the other side...aka tomorrow morning for some awesome puppet shows that will be serious and should be taken as such.

P.s. there is a fly that is just taunting my exhastion. It keeps landing right next to my hand and walking reallllly slowly cause it knows I don't have the energy to swat it. Stupid fly.

Too Hot To Be Creative With A Clever Subject

So a big ditto to what everyone has already said about this class and/or the weather being hot. I've really enjoyed getting to know all of you and am looking forward to spending the next year of my life with you guys/girls. I've heard a few people lately doubting their ability and "having what it takes to be a teacher". I just want to let everyone know that I know we will all make great teachers. Lewis & Clark knows we will all make great teachers (they won't admit anyone you know). I know some of these classes can be hard and make us think so much that we start over-thinking and making weird poems about the weather...but I just want to be clear that I think everyone in this class is Awesome and will make a great teacher...alright then. Carry on...

Beelzebub Has a Devil Put Aside for Me

Party On, Cohort Cubed!