Today was: OK

I never actually woke up this morning. I don't know what is wrong with me, but ALL DAY I just couldn't get out of a physical funk - seriously, I had zero energy. Even right now, it's difficult for me to focus, and, although you can't tell, I'm making way more typing errors than usual. I'm going to blame the heat - the unbelievable heat. Why is it so freakin' HOT? I moved out to San Francisco because I heard the weather was a temperate 75 degrees year-round. Not so. Ok, I just went to WebMD and I think that I am experiencing "heat exhaustion" - fatigue, excessive thirst, confusion, dizziness, drenching sweats... yep, that's me.

SO, I'm going to keep this relatively short - not really that much to report today, anyway. I sat in while Miles did a CRA Assessment which consisted of finding out whether or not a student knows their letters, if they know what sounds the letters made, if they are familiar with the "Concepts of Print" ["Point to the cover of the book. Point at the words as I read them."], word segmentation ["I'm going to say some letter sounds. Can you put them together to form a word? Here we go: B - OA - T."], rhyming, and some "sight words" ["at", "the", "like", etc.]. Miles was great about letting the girl knew before they started that if she didn't know the answer to a question that she should just say "I don't know" - "Don't be afraid to say that you don't know something. I'm a teacher and it's my job to find out what you don't know and then teach it to you."

What I would really like to do right now is to just lie down and take a nap, BUT my SFSU supervisor is coming again tomorrow, and I have to get together the lesson plan for what I will be doing while she is in the room. Plus, I have to copy and paste all of the blog entries that are of relevance to Student Teaching [I don't think she cares to hear about the new David Bowie album, or about the season premiere of Everwood] into a Word document that I can give to her. Oh, and I have to call my father because it is his birthday today [Happy Birthday, Dad!]. AND, I have to get all of this done before the season premiere of Fear Factor. See, I can prioritize.