To say the last 3 weeks have been informative would be an understatement. I can say without hesitation that I have learned more from my kids than they've learned from me. I wish I could say it has been all sunshine and roses, but that is definitely not the case. In fact, it has been hard, exhaustive work, but I sure do love it! While I've been working on differentiating my instruction by doing different activities, modeling, visuals, and group work, my main focus has been about classroom management. The first week the students seemed to be wary of me since I was a new grown up, but by the end of the week, they were definitely testing the waters to see what they could get away with. So, when I began my second week, I began to get a bit more strict about what was going on in the classroom. One of the things I did was grade the work we did in class together. This helped me for a variety of reasons. The first thing was that I could tell when I was tea...