Remote Post

I am on vacation in the BVI's - on Peter Island.
Feels like the middle of nowhere and I am so happy. And relaxed. And sunburned. 10 peaceful days on the beach is a much needed break from everything.

Teaching Portfolio

So, here it is, my portfolio of teaching on the Carnegie Website.
If you decide to take a look, feel free to ignore the copious amounts of text (it's basically a 60 page paper copied and pasted onto a website) and check out the adorable videos of my fourth graders in the middle column of each page.
(Don't worry - parents signed every permission slip in the book so that I could film and post these lessons).
www.cfkeep.org/users/gaelangallagher/teachingportfolio

In other news... I am off to John's office Christmas party wearing a shirt that is at least two sizes too small but that I managed to squeeze myself into because it is the only half decent festive-but-not-innappropriately-dressy-or-casual thing I have to wear tonight. I will feel uncomfortable all night and if my arms start to lose circulation, please take me home.

Then I'll be back to write an 8 page child development final, a childrens book, annotations for my math notebook, and make "Happy Holidays" bookmarks for my fourth graders.

As dad reminded me the other night... "There's light at the end of the tunnel. And its not a train."

Apologies

I have been so bad about posting. Mostly because I have 1.2 million things to do between now and December 18th when I get to go home to California. These weeks are the most intense part of the Penn program (or so I understand) so I am buried up to my neck in child development papers, seminar reflections, lesson-analysis, and picture book creating. The picture book is the only fun part.
I feel like I would really enjoy the other parts as well, the child development stuff is interesting, and my formal lessons went well and were a lot of fun, but there is so much to do in so little time that I feel like I'm not able to enjoy any of it!