So on my way to work this morning my iPod was on a roll.... literally song after song... I walked into work on a musical cloud of joy... Despite the long, often annoying commute to Tollgate I must say I have totally enjoyed my musical prelude and postlude to work. In fact last week, our tech teacher caught me absolutely JAMMIN' to Midd Kidd (see Youtube vid at bottom) and it made me realize how important it is just find those little moments when you can enjoy pure and utter happiness...No matter how dumb or silly it might look to someone else. Anyways... post awesomeness this morning we had a weird day.... On science two a days I think I literally spent 3 hours with the kids... We get them in the morning then take them off to art, from art they went to science.... We then picked them up and spent some time working on fractions... We then took them off to lunch... From lunch it was back to science... By the time we picked them up it was 1 o'clock... By then it was time for my lesson... I had planned on teaching the kids a preposition lesson and spicing it up with a song! YAY THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX! Anyways... First off, I got nervous while I was singing the song!? Like changing color, red face, nervous... I mean I'M SORRY... Didn't I used to do this all the time? Wasn't I good at this? Am I losing my touch? I LITERALLY STARTED SWEATING... Oy vey... LUCKILY the kids totally jumped on board and loved the song!!! I WAS SURPRISED in the best way possible (ps, i hate surprises MORE than anything)... but honestly, this was amazing.. I even had kids volunteer (yes, i said volunteer, as in "ms. detmer can I try...) TO SING SOLOS.... Blew me out of the water... I was so pumped!!! Now despite my lesson not totally going the way I had planned, I was so pleasantly shocked that I'm ok with it. Something to change, something to revise... something to try differently... I LOVED IT.... There is truly nothing better then when your children surprise and amaze you when you are least expecting it... GASP... is that what parenthood is????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZzCHcMKyDc
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