Week 1 of Student Teaching

Well I'm been in my classroom for a whole week! Half of the week was meetings and setting up the room and the other half was with the students. This week while we were setting up our room I realized I had never been to an elementary first day of school! I had no idea what to expect at all. In my little fantasy I imagined you did some get to know you stuff but got right into the whole teaching thing. Nope lots and lots of get to know each other and the school stuff. It's all very fun and interesting to see theses days and not quite worry about actually teaching yet. But I have seen lots of great ideas that I can use in my own classroom one day. I love my teacher! She is fabulous and so helpfully. I'm her first student teacher so she is more worried about not showing me everything I need to see and learn than me doing poorly. All of the other teachers I have met have been wonderful too and I can learn something different from each of them. So far I like all of my students some have interesting quirks and some will definitely be a challenge. But I'm up for the challenge! After being in student teaching all day three days this week I  worked in the bookstore for a little while, but that was only for this week. I would also go and work in the coffee shop on campus which I am doing all year and I also really enjoy. I totally feel the whole go go go thing going on, but I still have down time and get to see Tyler and all my dear friends. Tonight I went to a Driller game in Tulsa with Tyler and our friends Brittany and Arynn. We had a lot of fun at the game and the Drillers won! Then we came back to school and watched Hercules. It was a great end to a wonderful week and I'm ready for the next to begin.

Time for me to dream!
Night Ya'll!

A Hair Raising Experience

On Saturday I was creeping on facebook and one of my friend had done this new hair technique for curling your hair without heat. Well I love curly hair but hate curling it/don't know how to use a curling iron. I keep trying, but it never works. When I saw her picture and watched the video of how to do hair I knew I had to try it! These are my results!

After I rolled my hair into the headband. It wasn't hard, but I kept playing with the rolls. This headband did not hurt my head, but it was Lynne's, so I need my own.

 I don't know why these two merged together, but the first one is right after i took the headband out and the second is after I combed it. I'm happy with it! not everywhere was as awesome as the front but I just got to keep trying!

 

I tried it again last night with not freshly washed hair and this is what happened! I still need to get better at the rolling but this is something that I will do lots cause it's easy! I'm always afraid I'll brush out the curls though and then I'll be sad. The headband I used last night was way too tight! I kept pulling on it all night and the red mark from that one is way more visible and took longer to go away then the one I borrowed from Lynne. On both attempts the curl has lasted, better the second ( but I used hairspray) but still hasn't stayed super awesome. I blame the fact that it is a 110 outside and feels like 113. 

Can it rain please?

Xoxo

Kels

I love my cousin!

I'm very grateful and love all my family members. But right now I am very grateful for dear Natalie! She sent me a video on how to post pictures on blogger and now it makes much more sense! I wish that Natalie and Nicole and I were closer in more ways than one! I was we were closer in distance and closer cousins but one affects the other. I feel like I have seen them three times in my life that I can remember. But every visit I remember them being sweet and fun girls! Maybe now that I'm doing a slightly better job of communicating we can become closer and I know they both read the blog so hi dear cousins :) love you!

The other day I learned that blog had a list of your posts, so if you lose it for some reason it's still there! I wish I had learned that before I had rewritten so many posts! I am currently adding to my cd collection thanks to dear Tyler. I'm excited even if it is slowing my computer is way down. But it will be worth having all the lovely new music. I gave Emily and her family a tour of OKWU today and it was weird to be up there with no one on campus at all and see all the dorms completely empty. .It made me miss my room a lot. I plan on getting a hammock for my lovely deck, so if anyone has some wonderful words of wisdom they would be appreciated!

Next Saturday I have to take the Oklahoma subject area test for elementary education so that will be fun-ish. Then this time next Sunday I will be home with my Momma for a week! Happy day! I love my Momma lots and lots. I, also, love my dear sisters and I will see Jocilyn and her children that I haven't seen since Christmas! That will all be fun and lovely.

Last thought, Tyler got a EA Sports NFL Training camp for Wii this week. Two thoughts, first, I suck at real push ups especially when you have to have a stupid sensor recognize your movements. Second, for a video game it is a quite a workout and I have gotten quite sore from it. Luckily their 60 day challenge give you days off and won't let you do the work out, so I don't have to do it till again till Tuesday yay!

Well good night blogging world!

The Envelope Please…And the Winner is…

I got my letter for Student Teaching on Friday! I am a school called Ranch Heights in Fourth grade. I'm really excited to know where I am and not worry about the letter and just get excited for teaching. I'll start on the 13th with orientation, then starting on the 15th I'll be in the classroom everyday till November. It will be a very interesting semester. Luckily I'm only Student Teaching and not taking other classes. But I have heard that Student Teaching is a full time job, so I'm still nervous. But I'm sure I'll do great.

There was more to this post, but while trying to upload pictures with the post that part got deleted and I don't feel like rewriting it.
Dear lovely Natalie who is oh so smart,
Have any sound advice for pictures? I'm either never going to up load them again or get mad at my laptop every time I try and post them.
Wish me luck Student Teaching and blogging!
Kels

But Mom do I have to blog?

Okay, I was unmotivated to write because I was waiting for the shirts we dyed to be ready to rinse. So that I could take pictures of our handy work and then I left the camera in Tyler's car after his game. Then we went to my house for our long weekend and then Tyler's so clearly I have been busy. This post is bound to be long, so lets get started.

Last Monday the girls and I made tie-dye cookies and tie-dye shirts! It was a blast! I turned several different colors for several days, but it was fun to make different designs and see the girls' creativity. it was quite the afternoon. My favorite part was making the cookies and waiting to see what the were going to turn into!

Uploading pictures was more difficult than I thought! The last 4 shirts were of my design. I wish that the last one had more color :( this blog took me like 4 days because I didn't want to deal with the pictures! I have more to post but I'm doing it tomorrow.
Night Y'all

Home :)

So I got to go home this weekend on Friday to go to a wedding on Saturday. It was a lot of fun my favorite part was hanging out with my family and discussing the wedding with them. I enjoyed getting on the dance floor with my little sister because they are cute and are good dancers. I really like being home and coming to visit! It will be nice to go back to the ville and see friends, but I love home! It's also nice because it will only be a short time till I come home again on Thursday for the 4th of July, yay holidays! Tomorrow I think I'm going to tie-dye with my kiddos. Hopefully we can find lovely patterns and styles to do with them besides the traditional spirals. I'll be sure to put up pictures after they are washed. I need to make the three hour drive to Oklahoma. Sigh, can we have instant transportation so I don't have to drive three hours? I would gladly put money towards research that endeavor. We need a new renewable energy source anyway! Before I forget I made a decision a purse finally and got the side-by-side in java blue. Riveting stuff, I know.  Ok really time to go back to Oklahoma.

Peace love and pixie dust!

Here is the video of Tyler catching the home run ball at the Driller's game!

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=16093125&topic_id&c_id=t260&sid=t260&tcid=fb_video_16093125&v=3