Woah! What a busy week! Although it was an extremely crazy few days, it only prepares me for my future in an elementary classroom. Monday went pretty smoothly, with the exception of the kids being a little rowdy because their Fall Festival was the next day. However, with the freak snow storm from hurricane Sandy, school was canceled Tuesday, and thus moving the Festival to Thursday. If Halloween, Fall Festival, and a snow day wasn't enough to make my head spin, Wednesday was a 2 hour delay and Mrs. Wilson had a sub come in! Luckily, the sub who came in has been a Suncrest numerous times and knows many of the students. She was very helpful in keeping the classroom routine in check, as much as it could be during this crazy week!
Thursday was our Fall Festival, and man was it exhausting! The students left school at 11:45 to change and eat lunch and then returned to school to complete games and stations. Mrs. Wilson and I made sure to keep Thursday morning the same as it always is, the kids were extra chatty, but we made sure to tell them that the party was a special treat and that in order to attend, they needed to be on their best behavior all morning! Luckily we had this talk with them before I was observed my school's liason. She said I did a very good job even though the math lesson i was originally going to teach had to be moved back because of the snow day and other events going on through the week. She says I have very good classroom control and that I am very enthusiastic with the students.
Thursday morning myself and the other interns meet with our coordinator and liason to discuss our contract hours for next semester. I was pretty nervous about this because I had no idea how I was going to reach 135 hours, but they helped us out so much and I am pretty close to having enough hours already! We are going to plan a family math night as part of our contract hours, so this will be a lout of work but I am really excited to see how we put everything together! The theme for my contract is life long learning. All of my contract hours are going to revolve around building my teaching knowledge.
This was the 2nd week of implementation of my research. I decided to skip Tuesday's activity because of the snow day and there was no way the students were going to stay focused on Wednesday to do 2 activities. Since election day is this coming Tuesday, I may just end up throwing my Tuesday data out because I will only have 4 out of the 6 weeks worth of data to look at. I am starting to think of ways I can organize my data and make sense of it, but I am having some trouble with this. Hopefully Mrs. Wilson can help me locate some patterns in the data I have collected so far. Next week, I meet with my research teachers to begin looking at my data, so this will be really helpful too.
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