In it to win it

This one's going to be another one of those point form entries because I'm far too tired to think up porper sentence structure (because lets be honest, it's terrible even when I try).

- Today was an uber productive teaching day. I taught pretty much the whole day, a combo of group and whole class. Morning was an hour literacy block where we worked on group reading and writing skills, I worked with small groups and individuals. Then we went to the library and took out new books. I didn't do much here, just a lot of observation and such. It was my first time in the library with the kids as last thursday we didn't go because it was Harmony day and we were doing other activities. That took us to 11:00 and lunchtime. Straight after lunch was Maths, where I taught the year 2s while Miss Pigram taught the year 3s. It was on data and graphing and she actually sat for a while and assessed me while I taught and thought I did awesome! That took us to 1PM when we went outside for fitness and I ran a 20 minute circuit of burpees, crunches, shuttle run, bench step-ups, skipping rope and ball passing. Then we were on recess until 1:50 and then from then until the end of the class I taught a lesson on Hockey. It was cute, I found a couple 3 minute clips off the net of great hockey goals and saves and the kids loved it. Then I drew up a hockey rink on the whiteboard and we discussed the rules of the game and how it is played and related it to sports that they are already familiar with. Then we went outside and practiced some skills (stick handling, passing and shooting). We didn't have enough time for a game even! So tomorrow we may try and fit that in. All in all it was a wicked day of teaching and I got great feedback on my lessons. Well, great in the sense that SHE think I did amazing, but I saw a bunch of things I need to work on in myself and I sorta wish she would give me some constructive criticism, but she seems to really like what I'm doing so no complaints there. I'm getting more and more comfortable everyday and that allows me to have more fun with it. I also found out that if she gets the job at Gwynneville that she'd still be teaching a 3/4 class and that I would go over there with her, and that would be WIIIIICKED, as the school is even closer to home that this one! :) We'll find out in the next week or so.

Tuna: She's kicking it hardcore with the running and workin' her lil tail off as per usual. She ran 11k today it a little over 56 minutes, meaning she's almost back to her kick ass 5:00/km pace for longer runs. I'm sure she'll be where she needs to be for Canberra when the time comes.

My running: Monday ran 15k and averaged something like 4:27/km, which was pretty solid! Then yesterday, ran 12.25k in around 53 minutes, which is something like 4:22/km. But when I got home I pounded a big bowl of yogurt/cottage cheese/oatmeal/wheatbix/bran/almonds/dried apricots and got THE WORST stomach ache. It was terrible because it ruined my night and I was so unproductive because I was in so much discomfort. I think what happened was this. I ran really hard. When that happens more blood is forced into the muscles and the more anaerobic I get. The more blood that goes to my legs, the less there is available for my stomach muscles. So I got home and my legs were just juiced and then I pounded that MASSIVE meal, probably too quickly, and there was no available blood to aid in the digestion, thus it just sat there, causing me crazy discomfort. Oh well, you live and you learn, I'm no worse for wear today so it's all good in the hood.

I reckon Julia should get on here and spill her guts out because I try to include what she's up to but I'm usre I'm forgetting important info and I'm sure ya'll would like another person's point of view! I'll try to get her to write one this week. It's tough though because like this took me about 8 minutes and it would take her two hours because she'd be too worried about sentence structure and that sort of garbage. Please, that's what school's for. :)


Again, mom, I'm going to get some more pictures up here soon. I took some there just not on the computer yet so as soon as they are I'll get them up on here. :)

LOVE YOU ALLLLLL! Hugs and kisses. (Lots for Lucas, your email made me miss him a lot mother!)