Week Three
Week three is turning out to be a challenge. Wednesday mother nature decided to dump about 15 inches of snow on us while in school. The students were very excited about this which made it hard to keep their attention while teaching. My co-operating teacher decided to close the blinds on one of the windows so they were not staring outside watching it snow. It has been a long time since this town has seen a full blown blizzard. Driving conditions were extremely slow and many parents came to pick up their children early from school before conditions worsened. I taught my first full length math lesson and was able to maintain their focus for the majority of the lesson. I forgot to go over one page in their math journal but we went over the concept on their slates using counters. Tomorrow I will have them do the page we missed today. It should be good review for them to see how well they remembered the lesson. I shall keep my fingers crossed.
Thursday brings only a few students and I almost get to teach the whole day by myself. One of the other 2nd grade teachers had called in sick but her sub never showed up so my cooperating teacher took over her class. I was very excited and nervous all at the same time with this prospect in mind. But unfortunantly the principal said that I did not have enough time in so we teamed up rooms and taught to both that day.
Friday was mostly an on task day. I was still being apologized to for not having a normal week yet. I just kept telling them that this fine. A little chaos never killed anyone. Well at least not in the sense of a lack of routine due to weather conditions. We celebrated the 100th day of school today and had an Unbirthday party as the theme. Nothing like giving young kids lots of sugar and sending them home from school. God bless teaching. The kids did have fun and were for the most part well behaved. The last 10 minutes of class we started reading a new Arthur book related to birthdays and the students sat nice for this. All in all student teaching has been very interesting thus far.
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