Fact or Opinion...I mean REALLY

Tomorrow is TAKS review of course because we only have 2 weeks left until TAKS testing!!! I was looking at objective that my students are struggling with and to my surprise...it was FACT and OPINION. I thought I had learned this in maybe 3rd grade, but my sweet babies just don't get it. So tomorrow I am teaching FACT and OPINION. They have a HARD time understanding that it does not mean it is an OPINION if it stated in the story. I got this alll day long, "but Ms. it says it in the story...it HAS to be a FACT." So today after school I started to get my lesson ready. I came up with a sweeet fact and opinion game...made and assessment then I started to make my Prezi (it is better than a power point I promise). I work backwards... crazy i know, but I am CRAZZZYYY these days. As I started to make my prezi... I started to explain the difference between fact and opinion. I kept changing my wording around because it was even HARD for me to really understand a fact and opinion. Our society has set such NORMS we as humans have a hard time distinguishing between a FACT and OPINION. This topic i guess has been so relevant in my life lately...and i mean in dealing with people. It amazes me how deceitful people can be. I used to care what other thought and not speak what was on my mind, but in my "older days"... i guess you could say...that has all changed!!! My mom asked me about a year ago if I was ever going to find my filter... i told her NO!!! I am WHO I AM and there is not much more too it. Hate me love me...I don't always CARE! :) Anyways... It it sometimes hard to distinguish between (FACT PERSON) and a fake person (I guess we can call them an OPINION person). As a sorta naive person...this has been hard for me to grasp lately. I just don't get it... it takes so much more energy to be mean than nice. P.S. I am working on not being mean as well..although I am not deciteful! What you see is what you GET with this GIRL!!! All that being said... i know...I am wordy tonight... I am so THANKFUL and BLESSED that God has shown me lately who the FACT people are in my life. It is so nice to lean on my sweet friends and family. God is truly faithful, and I am so ever grateful for that! Life is much more sweet with out those opinion people!!! ;) Love you all, JC

Talk about falling on your face!

This has def. been the most TRYING week of my entire life. I have cried, laughed, yelled, argued, and the list goes on. I have had my own share of pity parties in my life. This week was def. an eye opener for me. I always have thought I was sad or hurt...but now i know the feeling f a broken heart! I have learned so much in the past week about myself and people in general... here are 10 things i learned this week...

1. I am in LOVE with teaching. I mean i have always known that, but this week I found out how much I truly love what I do

2. I have learned the true meaning of HURT

3. I have learned that my family will always be there to support me NO matter what

4. I have been blessed with the best friends in the entire world

5. I am one pretty tough girl...and i am working on not caring what others think about me, and not letting others try to tell me how to run my life. I am 24 now...i think i can handle it!!! ;)

6. Neely is one awesome ball player even with a torn whatever she has

7. It is okay to have a change of <333

8. Laughing until you cry is the BEST

9. I truly treasure read aloud time with my kiddos

10. I have a true and faithful God