I had the opportunity to apply something that I learned...

You know the "authority thing"? Well, today at lunch, one of the lunch ladies was getting on to one of the first graders (I monitor the 1st graders at lunch). My first reaction was to jump in to see what he had done and handle it how I would, but then I remembered how that made me feel when someone else did that to me, so I just backed off and tried to support her by just watching and then leaving when they were done. Kind of hard at first but definitely cool to see played out!

Also, my teacher was not in the workroom with me for lunch today, and I was much more talkative. I don't know if it was just because of those who were in there at the time or if it was because I felt more "free" since she wasn't there. Either way, it was a nice change. Not that she keeps me from talking or anything; it was just an observation I made!

I also had all the boys myself today for about an hour and 20 minutes or so. Besides the effects of not working with some of these boys on a consistant basis, everything went fine. In fact, the K teacher walked in and was surprised at how quiet it was! That made my heart happy! Everything wasn't ideal, and I would still need to learn a lot about what would be best when having all those students at the same time do all different things, but they weren't out of control; I wasn't yelling; everyone had something to do. Keeping them focused and working was probably the hardest thing, but none-the-less, we survived!!

Have a great Thursday night!
I hope you are doing well!