Yay week 3 is over! But the work is piling on!!
On Tuesday, I taught the first lesson of my “All About Me” unit. Basically, I showed the children a picture of my family, and we talked about who lives in my house. Then they were to draw who lives in their house. Most of it was a success, besides the kids who started drawing Gingerbread houses and spiders.
On Wednesday, we had our parent involvement day. It was so interesting/curious to see the parents interact with their children. And you could totally tell that some of them were being “star” parents in front of the teachers. The principal came to see me play on the piano and help the children sing the songs. Overall it was a success. The end of the day got a little crazier. We had an ambulance come and then in the midst of all the craziness, my supervisor showed up to grade me. This was very peculiar since she knew not to come that day (because there weren’t going to be children present in the afternoon), so she gave me a grade of N/A. What am I supposed to do with a N/A. I think she did this on purpose in order to not be held accountable. Bunch of blarney.
On Thursday, we got back to our post-Gingerbread normal days in the morning, and then in the afternoon, the cooperating teacher and I attended an IEP meeting. It wasn’t for a case study, but more of an in-service. Very interesting why some ppl in administration get hired.
On Friday, I taught a lesson! It was actually the cooperating teacher’s lesson. So she taught it in the morning, and I basically did the same thing with the afternoon kids. We practiced writing the letters a, b, c and their own names on a Doodle magnetic board. The kids had fun, but didn’t always want to do the lesson and more so wanted to color on the doodle board.
Overall, the week was a success, but I have so much to do these next two upcoming weeks. I’ll be finishing my Unit of Study — “All About Me” and simulatenously working on my teacher’s unit “Alphabet.” It’s going to be crazy, and I’m going to be super tired. Pray for me.
