Sorry...

Sorry everyone! I am terrible at this blogging stuff. I have been really busy with work and Avery, she is in a stage where she constantly wants my attention. No more excuses, I will try my hardest to do better.
Teaching is going really well. I have 19 students in my class. They like to talk a lot so I have been trying several incentives to get them to listen to me. My latest technique is "Call Cash". When they are on task I give them "Call Cash", I have a poster board with pockets for each student to store their money in, and then at the end of the week I let them buy stuff. This has been working really well so far. Except last week the poster board fell off of the board and money was everywhere! I quickly picked it all up and asked each student how much money they had so that I could sort it all back out. Several of the students told me that they had more than they really did because I ended up not having enough money to sort out from the pile I picked up off of the floor. I decided to not make a big deal out of it this time, but to keep better track of how much I am giving to each student this week.
I just gave my first Post Test on Friday. It went really well. It was fun for me to grade them and see how much they had improved from the Pre-Test I had given a few weeks earlier. It was great to see that I actually taught them something. I love teaching! When I go to work each day it doesn't seem like I am going to work, it is just so much fun for me.