Cuties At School

Today in my Child Development: Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum class (CHLD 105, the class I've had both great joy and stress in), our wonderful professor started off the day wonderfully with offering each of us a Cutie (orange).    I love Cuties, I could snack on way too many of them at once.    Then she started class and it went well, with some good discussions, stories and involvement.   It is going a lot better than the first half of the year.  The professor said at midterm after she gave us a self- and professor-evaluation to fill out so she can improve her teaching from it.   She then said she was going to try to have a day of discussion over each chapter then a day of notes - before midterm it was flipped, notes then discussion.  In my opinion having the discussion first is very beneficial to learning and makes it easier to pick up on - plus the way she has been doing discussions has changed to an easier to pick up on and engage in discussion.  Praise God!! He is so good!     As I was leaving class, she offered me another Cutie, and I happily took another one, thanking her and telling her how much I enjoyed it, since I enjoy them so much.   Then as she was packing them up to go, she stopped and said that I could just take the whole bag.   I am very happy to do so!   I love these things!   God is so good to me.

After class stayed at school (I didn't go home for supper - I packed one in my lunch) and stayed and did homework until about 7:30 PM in the computer lab.   I am excited to say that I am much further caught up, and after the work I got done today, I feel a lot less overwhelmed about the projects to come, I knocked out a big chunk.  Even though I have yet another at least 6 observations and activities to do in a classroom, I was able to have at least 4 set up between two appointments this week: one at the Child Development Lab at Heartland Community College (where I work, though not in the same classroom) after work on Wednesday April 3rd, and the other the next day before class on Thursday morning, at Prairie Christian School in El Paso (I've done observations in the past in each of these schools).    

Coming up in my other child development class (CHLD 109), I have the big, Final Project.  It consists of researching 6 different tools/strategies of observations, assessments, and Screenings.   After doing a write up on those 6, 2 from each of the above areas, I have to do one of each of the 3 areas in a classroom.    (two of those three, I am hoping to do on Wednesday - one of those two is actually our next assignment before the big assignment, but I am doubling up on it and going to try to do only one to cover both assignments - we will see).     I was able to drudge through 5 of the 6 areas of research today and the 6th one will be partially in class next week.    I am excited to be this caught up.