I had my first mental breakdown yesterday for the first time in a very long time... I just felt so overwhelmed with school, my calling, and the fact that we'll be moving in the next month. It's so sad! I am really going to miss Rexburg, but I know that it will be much fun starting the next chapter of our lives. It's exciting, yet very scary! I have my portfolio presentation the Wednesday after Thanksgiving break. I am TERRIFIED...as is everyone else who has to do theirs this semester. They start presentations today, and I bet my peers will do great! It will be so nice once I'm past that point. That's the scariest part of this whole program. I'm not even scared to student teach compared to this! I have to present for fifteen minutes in front of a committee (including ECSE faculty, my cooperating teacher for Kindergarten, and some dude high up in the education department) and be able to show them that I know what I need to know to move on to student teaching. They ask me any questions they want after I'm done presenting, and I have to answer them right there. Then, they send me out for like ten more minutes and wait until they call me back in. They tell me my strengths, weaknesses, give advice, and then tell me if they feel I am ready to move on to student teaching. If they don't feel I am, I FAIL. Well, they'll just have me present again the next week. Usually people pass though. The next couple weeks they look over my actual portfolio (that I've worked like 10+ hours on--still not done). This is really all I fret about right now. For my calling, I have to do visiting teaching interview, which aren't hard. They last about 5 minutes, but I'm just starting them and I have 18 girls to interview... and half of them probably won't sign up or even show. I fear it is because they haven't done their visiting teaching, but we tell them that it is okay and that we would still like to talk to them. Also, we are leaving Friday at noon to go to Utah and then Vegas for the break. We want to start moving stuff down, so we don't have to worry about getting a UHAUL, but I feel like I have NO time to start packing that stuff because I have all these other assignments. We have a Relief Society activity Thursday, which I'm second counselor so I must be there. I have an intervention session for my Strategies class Wednesday night, and aside from this I have to do the interviews. Joe is studying for a huge test to get licensed for insurance because we think that will help him get a job easier when we move, and he has been overwhelmed too... he just handles it better than me. Other than that, I am so happy and excited that we know we are having a boy! His name is Ryker Thomas. Don't judge. We love that name and that is his name! We've decided. Ryker because we just like that name and Thomas after Thomas S. Monson. Cute huh?
We had stake conference this weekend and it was wonderful, but I just get so distracted by the babies and especially the boys now that I know we are having a boy. Joe was quite distracted himself. So cute! Also, I just love looking at baby clothes, but I need to just hold off until it's baby shower time! I'm hoping someone here throws me one, but I'll end up having one no matter what, so it's okay. It'll all be fun! My friend Jessica who is the Relief Society president found out the same day that she is having a girl. Everyone thought that we would have the girl and she would have the boy. It's always the opposite of what we think. But Jess and I say that we both knew deep down inside that she was having a girl and I was having a boy. Anyways, I really need to go do some homework. Love you all family and friends! :)
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Here's a tip. Put all your "tasks" onto scraps of paper and put them into a bowl. When you get bored of working on one thing reach in the bowl and pull out one of the slips. Work on that for a little while. When you get bored pull out another slip. Helps keep you going without drudging on the same thing for hours. (don't forget to put the tasks back into the bowl if you're not finished with them yet and throw in a couple of fun things you don't need to do as motivating rewards like 15 minutes on facebook or make a snack or run around the house or watch tv for 10 minutes or 15 minutes looking at baby clothes online or something like that) Just don't forget to stick to the time limits or you'll spend hours looking at clothes.. ;) Goodluck you'll do great!
haha. Thanks Theresa that is actually a really good idea! I think I am going to do that actually. I have a list, but that only overwhelms me more, so putting it into a bowl and jumping around will definitely keep me sane. Thanks again!
you're welcome! hope it makes it much more fun! or sane,.. either way.
Oh man I didn't have to do a portfolio presentation that sounds scary. Our portfolio was huge though we had to do an "artifact" for each school subject, and then we had to do a Portfolio analysis thing. I think my Portfolio was over 100 pages long.
What is intervention? I ask because Landon goes to reading intervention at school and the first time we heard him talk about intervention we were super confussed. Good times.
Baby Ryker is going to be so cute! Try to hold off on the shopping for just a little because I have a whold box of stuff ready to send. I think I might just send it back with Dad when he comes for Christmas.
what? Dad is going there for Christmas? That's super awesome! When will he be there?
Intervention (in our case) is basically where we go into the home of a child who has slight speech delays and we use strategies to help him progress towards goals we've set. For example, he is working on expanding his sentences to 4 to 5 words. He is also working on articulating the /v/ sound. So, we incorporate activities that will motivate him to practice. We use a lot of prompting and things like that. In Landon's case, it just sounds like extra help in reading. That is something else I can do with my major... things like that. Anyways, I hope that made sense. I'm not good at describing things.
yeah Reading intervention at Landon's school is basically reading groups,all the kids go to intervention. We just thought the
term "intervention" was funny.
Also Dad is supposed to be coming on Christmas day and staying until Brent's b-day so if he has extra room in is luggage I will just send the baby stuff with him.
yay how exciting to have your dad there for Christmas. Fun!
Hey Cynthia! I'm gone most of the day until 5 pm, but if you want help packing stuff to take down to Vegas, please text me! I can bring Katie and she'll make it easier and faster. :)
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