I have not yet written about this particular semester. In some cases, I think the lack of writing has not been because I have nothing to say. Rather, it is because I am not quite sure how to say what I want to say. This semester has been extremely challenging in the sense that I am not longer dealing with elementary school students. Rather, I am dealing with middle schoolers who are not always interested in what you are talking about and come from broken homes and unimaginable poverty. Just today, I had one of my most ineresting teacher moments. I had planned for our intervention vocabulary lesson to conduct a game of Bingo with my students. Only two minutes into setting up the game did I begin to realize that my students had absolutely no idea how to play Bingo. They had no idea where to write the words on their BINGO card and they couldn't fathom the idea that we were using swedish fish as our bingo markers. 

I suppose this idea of "bingo" is somewhat trivial to write about. However, I consider this experience to be one of my biggest teaching moments. Never assume that your students have  had the same experience you have had. Never assume that your students have been to the movie theatre, the zoo, the aquarium and have played bingo with their parents or grandparents. My students probably appreciated this simple bingo game more than they have ever appreciated a bingo game in their lifetime. "Ms. Amoscato," they said to me at the end of intervention, "This was the greatest lesson ever." Who would have thought that bingo could be such a magical activity. Appreciate the small things in life.