Wa wa wee wa
I have some exciting news. I finally got a teaching job! I was hired on November 9th to be a permanent fifth grade teacher at the Medway middle school!! It starts January 2nd. It's wouldn't be my first choice for an age group, since most of my teaching experience was from 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms, but it'll be an experience, and once I get the hang of it, I'll be a pro and I'll love it. Since 5th grade's at the middle school, they do team teaching. I'm the team's math teacher, so I will have my homeroom and two other classrooms in my team for math. I'll teach language arts to my homeroom kids and they'll go to science and social studies with the other two teachers in the team. It took me a while to decide to go forward and apply, but I figured since I was a Title I math teacher for both third and fourth graders this year, I'm pretty familiar with the MA math frameworks. And since my Master of Ed. will be with a concentration in literacy and language it goes perfectly with the fact that I'm teaching English. I already learned a lot from this class I'm currently taking at Framingham State. I'll be able to try word study games to improve vocab and spelling, and I got to dabble in some poetry, which I had been previously terrified of. It'll be so great to try all this out. So technically even though the concepts may be a little harder to teach the kids, it'll be easier than teaching the lower grades because I would've had my students all day for every subject. Now I'm only responsible for two classes and they walk themselves to their specials, like computer and P.E. It's so weird. I'm used to bringing kids everywhere, tying sneakers, and hugging upset little ones. These new kids are going to be pretty self-sufficient. I'll still be that teacher that doesn't scream or yell and probably has a secret stash of candy hidden for good effort. I feel like my life is finally coming together. I feel like a true adult. I now have the job of my dreams, and very soon a husband of my dreams. :)
On a side note because this just popped into my head... Matt and I went to Coffee Sensations today and we saw the guy who worked at Subway at WSC. We talked to him for a while and he recognized Matt. Just a weird moment. He looks like Charlie from Lost, except he has brown hair.
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