Well I gave my finals on Tuesday and Wednesday and I am nearly done. I feel like I have crossed the finish line of this student teaching marathon and now I am doing a cool down lap. Since Thurston is on trimesters, I started out teaching on the first day of school and finished last week at trimesters end. Im looking forward to spending the next three weeks observing in other classes around the school and assisting the other business teacher with her section of Personal Finance. She was hired last year and this will be her first time teaching the course. She asked to use my curriculum and materials, which was very flattering, and also asked me to team teach with her until Christmas break. This should be a fun experience and a great way to end my student teaching adventure.
On another note, I decided to show movies in both of my classes last Friday and on into Monday before finals. We watched Fun With Dick and Jane in Personal Finance (the students got a big kick out of learning what NOT to do to get out of debt) and The Net in Computer Applications (where Sandra Bullock gets her identity stolen because of how easily accessible everyone’s information is on the internet). Two very fitting and what I thought to be entertaining movies. The Computer Apps class had never even heard of The Net and were not excited to watch. I thought, oh its not THAT old, just 1995, but then I remember that some of them were barely born in 1995…yikes Im gettin old 
Well I showed it anyways and by the end of class on Monday we still had 15 min left to watch (which I showed at the end of the finals period the next day). Now usually when the bell rings the students sprint for the door, but it turns out my movie was a hit. They were all so caught up in the suspense of the movie that they picked up their bags to leave, but just stood there watching until I managed to actually shut the projector off. Some of them asked to stay after class to watch the end becuase they couldn’t wait for the next day. That was really fun…and thats all I have to say about that
Hope everyone had a very delicious and happy, long weekend!
~Kenzie
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Doesn’t feel good to show the students something they whine and complain about and seem determined to hate and then have them love it! It is an amazing feeling.
Don’t worry about the feeling old, you aren’t getting old. And i felt the same way the other day when one of my students said they had no idea about the movie Titanic. Also when I tried to teach the Spanish I want and I asked if anybody remembered the Taco Bell commercial and they looked at me like I was crazy. I’m sure we have a lifetime of these moments ahead of us.
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