After 2 days I fell out of my routine of writing on this blog everyday. It isn't the first time and surely won't be the last, but I can assure you that I will keep you updated about the goings on in my life.
These last two days and today were much less tiring than the previous two, but of course I am still worn out. One of my friends that has already been through student teaching compared the first three weeks of student teaching to being hit by a train full of passengers. So basically two more weeks and the train will stop plowing me down every day. :) I've been trying really hard to get all the names down of the kids and my classes and if I do say so myself I am doing a pretty decent job. I am working with 7 class periods total each of which has on an average of 18 kids. That's about 126 kids! I remember some names better than others. The "bad" kids more than the "good", the ones that are very talkative more than the ones that keep quiet the entire time. I'll get there soon, hopefully.
This next week is when I will start teaching. Planning lessons and the whole shebang. I haven't done much else in my Spanish class room other than observing, which I am somewhat okay with. Unlike my LA classroom I haven't felt that there has been a good opportunity to "jump in" and help the teacher explain something or practice my classroom management techniques. My Spanish Co-op is open and willing to let me try anything in the classroom which is reassuring and a little scary.
Everything has been going very well in my LA classroom. I know most of the names of the 5 classes I am working with and have already had the opportunity to teach a little "mini-lesson". The class was going over linking verbs in their grammar book and I taught them a rhyme sort-of-thing that I learned in middle school to help them learn the 15 common verbs. This was only for the 7th grade, and they loved it! We learned it on Wednesday and practiced/reviewed it on Thursday. When I walked into my 3rd period class today(a little late, after making the trek across the school from Spanish) one of the more talkative girls asked me, "Miss J, can I do the linking verbs song for you?" My first thought was, "It stuck!!" so of course I let her tell me all 15 linking verbs again and I was very happy!
One thing that I've been a little miffed by is the fact that my LA students don't do any kind of journaling in their class. In the other LA classrooms that I have observed and helped in in the past, the students have done journal for the first 5-10 minutes of class. I haven't spoken with my Co-Op about this yet, but I am hoping that she will let me start the kids on journaling. They're in middle school and so many changes are happening in their life that some of them really could benefit from using journaling as an outlet. We'll see how it goes. I have high hopes.
Thank you all for your support as I starting this student teaching journey. I am very much so looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow! Have a great weekend!! See you next Monday.
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