I tie a lot of shoes.

Seriously. I should start keeping a tally.

There are SO many things that I never thought I would be doing so often.  Tying shoes, trying to wake kids up, cutting out eye holes in paper plates...it's all worth it though once I see that "light-bulb moment."  You know, the moment that you see that the kid finally "gets it"

 
We've been working on addition and subtraction for the past couple of weeks and I've been doing a LOT of guided instruction.  Today, I let the kids do the math page themselves.  And almost all of them did great!!  There were a couple (literally 2) stragglers that had to stay in a few minutes for some extra support, but I was happy! :)  I'm also happy to say that my master teacher and I found a great way to incorporate the document camera in the lessons, so I'm  not stressing out as much for my midterm evaluation!

Teaching is awesome.