First Day at Kirby

So today was my first day observing at Kirby. No surprises other than the fact thatt the classes are small and the kids were pretty well behaved. We started the day getting the housework outta the way. We established a schedule, exchanged contact info and set up days for me to make my lesson plans. I will be teaching a unit a unit on basketball, one on track and the last on tennis. I am pretty ok with it even though i have NO clue about basketball, i think i can make a lesson a 6th and 7th grade class can follow and learn from. That was all first period, our conference period. 2nd and 3rd we streched them out and then did calisthenics. They are working on a volleyball unit now so we cut them into teams and let them play. Latter this week we are going to run mini tournys in class and give the winning team a free day next week. The next period is the football athletics. I went with the 8th grade boys coaches to watch the game footage from this last weekend. I really wish that i had gotten into the football program. Anyways i really need to start learning how football actually works and get positions down and that sortta stuff. The last class i stayed for was a girls pe class. It was a small class and the girls although willing to participate were NOT doing well on the calisthenics or on the volleyball skills. There were only two girls that had been playing either club ball or was playing for the school that had any clue what to do. I really think that they need more one on one time before they will be able to "play" a game. As i was leaving i ducked in to meet and talk with the principal and then i was on my way. On my way home i stopped off at Target on 78 to see if they had any Wii's, they had them on sale this week for $199.99. They did so i bought one, i also got the WiiPlay and Tiger Wood 2010 bundle pack. So yeah, for a non video game player i sure got a lot of video games; PS3, Wii, and DSi. Well i guess i should get the rest of my homework done. I got to finish up my lab for Exercise Phys and then do so BS for the education classes. . .

the first of many?

SO yeah i guess since i dont use myspace anymore and facebook doesnt excatly have a blog/journal function i shall begin here. . . Maybe one or two a week. . .

So right now we are still trying to get dad into surgery for his spine. He is getting really really bad. hard time moving and the whole nine yards. Went to eat supper over there yesterday abd he can hardly salt and pepper and cut ut his baked potatoe. . . REALLY FREAKS ME OUT!

School is sucking too. I just got my field based obsevation assignment, Kirby. Not at all what i wanted but i gotta deal with it. Looks like i will be working on Mon and Wed at Kirby and going to school on Tues, Wed nite and Thurs at A&M, and then maybe trying to get a job on fri to earn some money. My education classes are sucking and my kine classes arent too bad, but the measure and eval is a killer stat class that moves pretty damn fast!

there is other stuff goin on too but i will get into that laterz, i think this will work for my first installment. . .