Day 6: Not againnnnn….
It was REALLY hard waking up today!! :-(
During the weekend I worked putting together the song for the Gingerbread Day and tried to fit in some lessons for my actual unit. I don’t meet with my supervising teacher til Wed., so I didn’t want to plan a lot just to have her tell me it all sucks and needs to be revised!
The kids and I also practiced the songs and the whole skit today. It’s hard practicing for AM & PM because obviously all the parts aren’t there. We also decorated foam frames. We’ll be taking pix of the kids with their special parent that day and putting it in the frame they made that day so that they can take it home. Overall it was a good day, and it went by SUPER FAST.
Day 7: I overslept!
Well I set my alarm for the right time, and yet instead of pressing snooze, I must’ve pressed off :( Anyway, Agnes’s alarm clock woke me up at 7:10 (40 min later than usual). Thankfully I now get ready the night before. I was in my car by 7:30! So not too bad, and I made it there really fast, almost my normal time.
Today the teacher and I made a huge gingerbread house out of a tri-fold poster and some extra cardboard. We made snow, a door, window, gumdrops, peppermints, and candy canes out of construction paper. It was sooo cute and such a great idea. The afternoon kids are a lil higher functioning so they helped put the gumdrops and other candy on the house. It’s so crazy how much work teachers do. We worked almost thru our whole lunch break to build that house. Not to mention the time Ive spent afterschool building the other tinier foam houses and making copies of the songs we are singing, etc.
One interesting event that stuck out to me today was an incident with a little girl and the speech pathologist. This girl likes to act out a lot. Maybe not in a way that’s negative per se, but it’s just very disruptive. She doesn’t know a time and place for it. So when her and the speech pathologist were reading a book, she kept getting up from her chair to act out what was going on in the book. Totally unecessary and she couldve just sat down and listened. It so happened that one time when she got up, another child with the book came to sit right in her seat. She got SO MAD. But it was such a great lesson. She realized she needs to stop acting out so much.
One thing that made me mad today was when the OT was visiting. She had a one-on-one with one of the girls. She left weights on her ankles for an exercise they were doing. This poor girl couldn’t run during the skit and we wondered why. Until finally she lifted her legs. I hate stupid ppl.
I found out that sometimes it’s not dealing with the children that’s difficult, but with idiot parents. I can’t wait to see their parents when they come in next week.
Afterschool today my teacher holds Multicultural club for the 5th & 6th graders. It was fun watching them present on different countries, but some of it if not all was totally pulled from wikipedia and not edited or revised at all.
