teacher work day

today i got to wear jeans to school!! how exciting! the teachers wear jeans all the time at the school i'm student teaching in, but i'm not allowed since i need to be extra professional and all. it's odd to me how a lot of schools around here are like that. maybe it was a southern thing that the teachers never ever wore jeans in my high school. i took a lunch break to olive garden, had cake for motzart's birthday and have a game plan for my poetry unit. it's all mapped out day by day and i have my ideas/resources for each of those days. now all i have to do is write up the formal lesson plans. woo! i'm really looking forward to this unit. i've learned so much about poetry doing the research and i'm getting a little crazy with the ideas. one day we will be doing odes to everyday objects. i'm pumped for that one because i'm making the room into the "museum de ordinare" and there will be five objects on display they can write an ode to. i'm gonna make a collection "book", dress up, play classical music. i'm goin all out! we're also going to do riddles and epitaphs, have a poet of the day, and keep a class list of "musical words". it's oh so much in only eleven days! this weekend i will be working on it some more, but i'm so thankful for a teacher work day. gotta love 'em.