Spring Break

This week Seattle Hill is on spring break! Which means for me I just have classes this week. Any ways, after spring break I will begin to teach some new things. Such as, Math and Social Studies. I think teaching both will be fun but, I just haven't taught them yet, it will be something new. I have my third and final observation coming up in three weeks and it will be during math. It is so crazy how time has flown by being at Seattle Hill. It makes me sad to think I will be saying good bye to the kids I have been working with all semester. As a teacher I will have to do this every year.

Which brings me to my next point, as of right now it is unsure whether or not I will be doing my full time student teaching in 2nd grade. Because, both of my teachers might be moving grade levels. Scary thought! Here is what Jamie and Amy believe will happen, Jamie will move to 4th grade and Amy will move to 3rd grade. What does that mean for me? Well, I would most likely stay with Amy and move up to 3rd grade. All this means that I would be working with the same group of kids that I am with now, and just continuing on from where we left off at the end of this year. Not as scary as I thought.

Now to go back a little ways, it has been so long since my last blog. I have had my second observation it was during science. Over all it was a success. Except for one part, when the kids took the pinwheels they had made outside to see if there was any wind, a huge gust of wind came taking all of the pinwheels with it. All the kids started to scream and chase after their pinwheel, there was absolutely nothing I could do but laugh. My professor was standing in the back laughing also. So much for good management! All in all ,it was a great lesson the kids enjoyed it and so did my professor.


That about sums up everything exciting in my world of student teaching, so weird to think that I only have 4 weeks left... CRAZY!

Long Time, No Blog

I know it has been well at least a month since my last blog, I have been crazy busy with everything! Here is what has been going on:

First of all during my science lesson I had the Principal, Super Superintendent of the Snohomish School District and a board member come in to Jamie's room. Of course it was while I was teaching, but the kids where really good while they were there (Praise the Lord).

Another exciting thing that happened was Amy had to take an afternoon off and had a sub, I got to be the teacher for the whole afternoon. It was great! I got to re-establish myself as a teacher with the kids. I went over that it was OK that I don't do things like Ms. Grimes because, we are different people etc. The reason I had to do this with Amy's class is there are a handful of kids who are constantly reminding me of how Ms. Grimes does it. Ever since then they have done much better.

Also, even when Jamie and Amy are at school, they have been letting me take over the afternoons while I'm there. I love it! It is giving me such great experience being up in front of the kids. Because of this I have been able to experience the kids when they are behaving really well and not so well.

That's about all I can think of. Hopefully it won't be so long in between my next blog!