2nd day of school

Today was the second day of school, I am so tired! I am having a blast as I am going through this adventure. As you all know, my placement is a Special Ed teacher working with Asperger's students... but i don't have kids in my program yet. Sooooo, I have been temporarily placed in kindergarten to co-teach in a classroom with 27 kids. It has been CRAZY. First, the teacher I am co-teaching with (she is the one in charge of lesson plans, management, etc as it is her regular classroom) does not have the greatest of management skills nor has any sort of organization. So, the room is really hectic and I am afraid to take too much control since its not my room, although I did today as I had to teach for the afternoon, more on that in a second.

Today was insane. I cleaned up vomit, had a kid spit on me, and dealt with 4 kids with the worst behavior I have ever witnessed in children, one of which has fetal alcohol syndrom and has a chronic behavior problem that is REALLY hard to manage. The highlight today was losing a kid for two hours. I had a meeting today at lunch and when I got back to the kindergarten classroom, the teacher that I am working with informed me that she was missing a kid. I ran to the office and told them. Announcements went over the intercom, all teachers were told to count their kids, and the search went on. We looked all over the school and neighborhood, the police were called, the media was called, and the parents. It was a disaster. Finally, I decided to check every kindergarten class again and personally count the kids myself (after the teachers were told to count the kids three different times)... and alas, I found little Eddie just chilling in the bilingual class (which is funny because he is not in a bilingual class). I took little Eddie to the office where he was welcomed by the whole search crew, including his FREAKED out and EXTREMELY upset parents who decided to scream and yell and punch the walls in the office. I understand their anger, their kid was missing and the teachers did not properly count their students. In addition, the teacher did not even recognize that there was a strange student in her class who was not wearing her classes special name tag. CRAZINESS. After this whole ordeal, I had to teach for the afternoon because my co-teacher was too distraught after losing a kid and getting reprimanded by our principal (oh! and the superintendent was at school today to give my principal her evaluation and review while this all happened!)

So, I am tired. I love kindergarten but would have a hard time doing it for two years. Much love to you all.