Everyday is better than the last.
My lessons are going well. The kids respond, I feel calm and in charge. We're having fun. Yesterday I was reading a story and couldn't help but laugh at the part where the frog's swimming suit got stuck on a stick at the bottom of the lake. The kids couldn't help but laugh either, and we giggled for a good couple of minutes before returning to the story.
They're off their 'first week of school' good behavior and on to their 'let's see how far we can push' mode. I've disciplined - some of it is 'developmentally appropriate', while others maybe isn't so much. Sometimes kids don't respond to things the way books (and professors) say they will. I've gotten comfortable knowing that I know what will, and won't, work for my students, and I need to trust my gut instinct and go with it.
Tomorrow in the afternoon we're going for a nature walk to end our sorting unit in math. The kids will sort by attribute and we'll share when we get back. It's the most rewarding thing in the world to see kids excited about a lesson I've planned, prepared, and taught.
This is good...and it only gets better.