After my day with the pouting master, I was hoping for a slightly less-demanding group for the last day of the week. Little did I know that I would not only have that, but also a student teacher who did pretty much everything! Here is a summary of lovely day:
The kids came in and did puzzles in the morning. (Apparently Friday is "puzzle day".) I helped a variety of student with their puzzles.
After puzzles the class did calendar activities. The student teacher led this activity.
Then it was time for the class to read together from their poetry books. The student teacher led, I sat next to kids and read poems.
Next came reading groups. The ST dismissed kids to groups and led the groups. I went around the room and sat down with various students and had them read to me.
They had lunch. The ST walked them to lunch. I pushed play on the VCR - Friday was also video day. You can see how much I've been exerting myself today.
In the afternoon I read a story! Then, after the story there was an activity in the lesson plans that didn't say "the student teacher with do this" next to it, so I thought I would actually have to work today. But when I'd finished my story the ST came up to me with the stack of papers and acted like she wanted to take over. So I asked her if she wanted to do it, and she said, "Yeah!" So I sat in the back and listened.
After this we had a birthday party for a student. Again, the ST took charge of this.
I did however, make myself useful near the end of the day. When the class was in PE an adult brought in a small stack of papers that needed to go home with the kids whose names were on them. I passed out the papers but found one that wasn't from our class. I took it back to the office, found out where it was supposed to go and then took it to that classroom.
And yes, that is all I did. Deliver a note, read a book, and listen to kids read. Pretty nice way to end the week!
1 comment:
You definitely deserve that kind of a day now and then. Glad you got it on a Friday.
Love you!!! MOM
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