These past few months have kind of been a whirlwind of successes, mistakes, learning curves, learning cliffs, smiles, tears, and so much more. Teaching is nothing like I thought it would be, yet everything I expected and wanted. I really feel like I am starting to find my groove and I am excited to see what the second half of the school year will bring.
In an effort to recap the school year so far, I have created my top seven events since August (because I'm too tired to think of ten!). So here it goes in no particular order:
I graduated. YES! I actually graduated. It's pretty much a miracle that it actually happened considering that I told my mom years ago to punch me in the face if I ever decided to go back to school. Luckily she didn't punch me when I signed up for classes and was nothing less than completely supportive. I have actually grown to enjoy school and am even thinking I should get my masters....but that may take another 28 years. 
We got a class pet. Her name is Layla (we like to call her Lala) and she is a red-footed tortoise. The kids are in love with her and so am I! I didn't think I would love a silly little animal so much but I do. And the best part? Easiest pet to take care of!
Marshmallow Snowball Fight. I put together an advent calendar for our classroom and the kids were able to earn it each day. One of the days we had a snowball fight with mallows. When the kids were headed back to class, I had already gone back a few minutes earlier and prepared for their return. I had hidden a small bag of mini marshmallows in each student's desk and I had a bag of giant marshamallows. As soon as they walked in the room, I started throwing them at the students. To say they were shocked is an understatement. They loved it! They quickly discovered their own "ammo" in their desks and were dishing it back to me. It was maybe only 5 minutes out of the day, but they talked about it all month. Definitely doing that again next year!
We painted and stuffed mummies. We studied Ancient Egypt and learned all about how they mummified the pharoahs. So part of the unit we designed, painted, and stuffed our own mummies. It was a little crazy to get them all done, but the students did awesome and they turned out great!
We flew a 50 foot trash bag and called it science. It was seriously the coolest thing ever! That Steven Spangler really knows how to make cool science projects. Click here to see just what we did!
Our class grew butterflies. We ordered teeny, tiny larva and watched them as they grew. Out of the five, three of them actually survived and were beautiful butterflies. Then one afternoon we released them and it was so cool! I highly recommend that any class do it! I think kids of all ages would enjoy it. I'm sure there were plenty of other amazing and fabulous things that happened, but my tired, holiday break brain can't remember anything else! So here's to another great few months in 6th grade!
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