So Tired...

I can't believe how exhausting it can be to chase around and keep on top of 21 little children all day. I am so tired right now I could crawl into bed, and it is only quarter after 8.

Today was the second full day of teaching (that means kids from 8:50 until 4 with a 20 minute recess and an hour lunch stuffed in there somewhere), and so far it is going pretty well. Except for the exhausted part.

I taught my kids all morning until lunch, and then this afternoon while my kids had Italian, I got pulled to cover the new first grade class because that teacher was sick. And by "new," I mean all the children who don't know English and haven't been to school before. It was an interesting experience. One of the kids is totally AWOL, and I could have sworn he was going to stab me with his pencil every time I got close to him. At one point I looked over and he was eating his pencil crayon. But they managed to understand what I taught them (even and odd numbers, and making a map of the classroom), so good on the both of us for understanding and being understood.