I'm back

Well, moving is done, the renos are done (for now), the thesis is done, and it's September. There's no better place to be than in a classroom. So I walked down the street to the closest school and asked what I could do. The principal sent me to a grade two classroom where I have been working with students on reading. It's great.

After two weeks of this, I had the crazy idea (put into my head through repeated encouragement from my mom) of finding out about the school's music program to see if I could help out with this year's Christmas concert (if you're trying to get into teaching, you know that you do anything to make yourself an appealing hire). So I spontaneously stopped in at the principal's office.

"Do you have a choir here? I was thinking I might be able to help out with the Christmas program."
"No. Two summers ago the music teacher, who had been doing the music program here for 18 years, left. We had a beautiful music program. They were supposed to send me a new music teacher but I never got one. So now we have no music - no singing, no nothing."
"Wow... Okay... Well then, what I was wondering was - "
"Yes, I would like a choir."

Holy Smokes. What have I gotten myself into. I am working together with the drama teacher to put together a Christmas concert. "Whatever you want to do is fine with me" the principal said. This is more than a little intimidating since I have never lead a choir of any kind, nevermind coordinated an entire school Christmas program...But, this just might be my ticket in. If I can impress the principal with this, who knows what could happen.

Now, this is where I put into practice one of the key lessons you learn in teacher's college - BEG, BORROW AND STEAL. Where can I find a fantastic little Christmas (I should say "holiday") program that is all set up and ready to go? Hmmm...

And, no post is complete without at least a little story from the kiddies. So, our new word for today is "reaser" (pronounced ree-acer). This is a little thing on the end of your pencil that reases things. You can also get magic reasers from Disney. They put magic on them so that with just one stroke your pencil marks are reased. Amazing.