Favorite Things to Teach

I was asked recently what my favorite thing to teach was. I told the person at the time that I really couldn't decide. The whole reason I went into to teaching in the first place is because I couldn't see one single subject interesting me long enough to keep my attention for longer than a few years. With teaching the subject matter changes all the time. I get a good variety....so What is my favorite??? After teaching PE on Wednesday I decided its my favorite thing to teach! I know most of you are probably thinking WHAT!?!?! Kelsey!? She is the most uncoordinated person I know! She hates sports! and you are absolutely right! I am! and I do! I don't enjoy teaching PE for the athletic value. It's not that I love Physical Education by any stretch of the imagination.... It is purely and simply the entertainment value.

This probably makes me sound like a terrible person....but watching kids try is SSSOOO hysterical!!! (Dually noted that I was probably the kid that my PE teacher was laughing at....) I have my kids warm up every morning we have PE. They line up in the groups and then we do exercises across the gym and back. We skip, jump, gallop, run, crawl, bounce a ball, etc etc. They kids are SO determined they have this look of complete concentration on their face and they do their best to hurry as fast as they can (because everything is a race in fourth grade whether your teacher says it is or not). I wish I were better at describing their awkwardness, yet determination. SSSOOOO funny! Just imagine a kid "crawling" across the floor on his hands and feet....bum in the air... legs and arms swinging wide......HAHAHAHA I just about die laughing every Wednesday morning! If you ever want to come to my classroom... I encourage you to come Wednesday Morning and have PE with us!

My second favorite thing to teach is SCIENCE!!! The kids just drink it up! They ask so many questions and so into it that it is easy to teach! Plus, its so hands on and visual and that is how I learn best! I have always thought science is cool though... it's probably always been my strong point.

My LEAST favorite thing to teach? Writing.... Maybe because I enjoy writing. I am really terrible with grammar and punctuation...but writing is my therapy.  I really enjoy it...but its something that is really hard for me to teach. I think I just want to turn their paper into how I want it to sound. and i get frustrated when it doesn't.... I always seem to want them to be more advanced writers than they are. I also want to spend enough time with each of them to help them develop their ideas...but then i don't have enough time to get to everyone!  In short...i just get frustrated when trying to teach them to write.

Any way... the life of a teacher! Highly entertaining....yet incredibly frustrating! We do the best we can!