Year 2 Down!

I'm done with my second year of teaching. It seems crazy sometimes - like I really shouldn't be done already. The end of the year was awesome - my drama students did a great play - "Just Another High School Play" and I'm so incredibly proud ohttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giff how well they did. All of the concerts at the end of the year were just phenomenal, and left me so proud of my kids (and with so many ideas of what else to do)!

I just finished a two week Orff Level 1 Certification. For those of you who don't know, Orff is a process for teaching elementary school music. It involves music, speech, dance, movement, instruments (recorder, bar instruments, non-pitched percussion) and the idea is to make music "natural". You can read more about it here.

It was such a blast. I made some amazing friends and got to have a lot of awesome experiences. It makes me miss my elementary school work at Ubly, but the next task is to adapt it to fit with my high school drama classes as well as my middle and high school bands. I think it'll be good to work on independence (and interdependence).

My parents get here on Wednesday, and I'm excited to have them here for a week. We'll be in Homer until Tuesday, and then head over to Seward. Two nights there, Glacier Cruise, and then up to Anchorage. It means that I've been doing a lot of cleaning, but that's all right. I organized my storage room, as well as my kitchen. The hard thing about my kitchen is that I have two cabinets and two small sets of shelves for all dishes, pots, pans, and food. I've got it better organized though, and I made a small "pantry" in my storage room.

Well, time to get back to cleaning!