Today was a little bit of a unusual health day because some of the classes did health, while others got to play. I started off my morning by helping Coach Frye with the Pink Eye worksheets he had assigned to the seventh graders. Some of them were having some difficulty finding answers to the questions about the Pink Eye article. Many of them got it right off the “bat”, and after the whole class was done, they were allowed to ether play basketball, volleyball, or jump rope. I didn’t get to play, because it was time for me to leave and go to English 4 at the high school. Sometimes the seventh and eight graders do different things than the sixth graders, and today was one of those days. The sixth graders got to play, and when I came back for my first six grade class, I played with Joseph, Hunter, Dayonte, and Brady. I said goodbye to them and wish them a great day at North Central, and the next class got to come in. The boys were a little rowdy and got punished by watching the girls get to play first. They eventually got to play, and I throwed the football with Thomas, Zack, Shaun, Skyler, Marque, and Coach Frye. Tomorrow I teach my first lesson, and I am a little nervous because I don’t want to mess up.
This morning I returned to my placement. I love walking in every morning to big smiles on the students faces. I really missed that while I was out. When I arrived this morning to the school, I felt worse than I had the two days I was out. I wanted so badly to feel better so that I could interact with them like I usually do. The kids all wanted to hug me but I did not want to get them sick. After morning work, the morning show they have on Tuesdays and Thursdays and their daily trip to the bathroom, Bryceson was told to go read with me. I was very proud of him today! He read so well and quickly. Part of it I felt was because he liked the book and partly because he is understanding that I am there to listen to him and help him. I love when I can see that the kids are comfortable around me because reading can be very confidential. Some students that are behind on their reading levels tend to get embarrassed as they read. I am starting to see the students I am talking about warm up to me and the fact that I am there to do nothing but help.
Today was a typical day in second grade. I got the classroom and got started on some work. I grabbed all of the students’ folders and began organize their assignments from last night into stacks. I was really surprised at every students’ ability to do their homework on time. I am not used to that in high school. After I finished with that, we all went to the back of the room for Morning Meeting. Mrs. Catoe did the usual ordeal and discussed upcoming events in the month. Then the class returned to their desks and started working on their daily language and mathematics exercises. Once that was finished and collected, they got out their Grinch activity books and began those. They have to read a part of the story then illustrate it each day. It is a very cute activity for them. Overall, the day went well and went by quickly. I am enjoying my time with Mrs. Catoe and those children. They all make me feel like a great teacher, which is pretty amazing.
Today was basically a review day. Mrs. Mathis went over the test that they took the other day. She told me that they did not do to well. This bothered me because I taught them one of the lessons they were tested on. I think that the reason they did bad was because they do not work out their problems. They think they know everything and don’t have to work it out. This however is not the case. They make simple mistakes. Really the students deserve a hundred because they know what to do, but they make such simple mistakes. Mrs. Mathis is not going to be at school tomorrow, and she is letting them redo the test. She is letting them REDO the test. This to me is crazy. In high school if you don’t do it right the first time you don’t get it right. You just have tuff luck. I really admire Mrs. Mathis because I can really tell she loves her job. After she went over the test and told them to take the test home and study it she went over their homework. After that, she had five minutes of the class left, and she taught a lesson. She TAUGHT a lesson. She uses every minute wisely and I like that. I don’t think she should have begun another lesson, but it was alright. I think if she were a high school teacher she would teach for an hour and a half. I would not like that at all, but that’s why I think she is perfect for the middle school. After that class left, I went outside to watch the classes change. She came out there with me, and she talked to me about the eighth graders. I was talking about their personalities, and she told me that she is there to help boost their character. This to me was amazing. She is not only there to educate a group of students, but she is there to motivate them and mold them into great people. I think that a lot of teachers at North Central are like that. All the teachers here care about more than our education, they also care about our well-being. This is why North Central is polite and almost everyone is nice. I think that the teachers here molded us to be this way, and I can definitely see that in Mrs. Mathis. I hope one day if I become a teacher, I can be like her.
Dec 12/ 2013 Today during Mrs. Mason’s class we had to do what we had been doing the rest of the week which was to take our AR tests on the laptops. Once I read with a couple of the kids she started sending them to the back to take their tests. Once they were finished Mrs. Mason asked me to do her a favor. She asked me if I would download some apps on her recently acquired iPads for her classroom. I downloaded Accelerated Reader and another app on there for the kids. Once I was finished downloading the apps she brought the kids to sit down in front of the writing board. She asked the kids what were some good traits about their classmates. They had very nice things to say about one another. Once we filled up half the page with nice things to say about each other it was time for me to leave.
I did my teacher observed lesson today. The day started out with the children doing a worksheet like always. After Mrs. Gandy went over it, she went to the board and did the calendar. They did their calendar without much trouble. It went rather smoothly. After they finished it up I was still helping out a boy who was writing 40s instead of 10s. We got it fixed and I moved on to the rug to start my lesson. I started out asking who had heard of “the Five Little Monkeys” stories, most of them had. I read them the book and they listened and read along with me. I got them to read the doctors part, “no more monkeys jumping on the bed.” They seemed to really enjoy it. Afterwards I sent them back to their seats and handed out my monkey worksheet. I told them to give their monkeys eyes and a mouth, they took that and ran with it. Most had big red smiles, but others had kissy faces. Some kids gave their monkeys eyelashes. They were some creative monkey that were all kinds of colors: green, red, purple, yellow. They then pasted their arms and legs onto their monkey and some even named theirs. Mrs. Gandy even hung the monkeys from the ceilings. It was really cute. Afterwards they got into group time but I had to leave. I loved teaching them.
To follow up my lesson from yesterday, Mrs. Kahler had the 8th graders complete a works cited page for the webquest that they have been working on this week. She had them format it according to MLA. Because I know MLA well, I was able to move around the classroom and help the students who were having trouble. I got to connect with almost every student one-on-one! It was awesome and I feel like I got to know so much more about each of them. I’m so glad that Mrs. Kahler is teaching them how to complete a works cited page while they are in middle school. In my first English class in high school, I was completely shocked that my teachers expected me to know MLA format already. I think that these eighth graders will be much better prepared for high school, next year!
Today was an extremely dreary day at my placement. I began the class by going over the South Carolina facts with the students. We quickly went over them because the students had to take their test. The students had to take their test over the antebellum period. While the students took their test, Mr. Leininger had me grade their facts quizzes. I went to the workroom and ran all five of Mr. Leininger’s classes’ scantrons through the machine. Once I finished and returned to his room, he wanted me to help him break the grade on the scantrons down. I went through and marked off a certain number of questions and then counted the number they had wrong for that section. I did this until the end of class. The students turned their tests into me and I began to grade them while the other class came in. I went over the South Carolina facts with them and went back to grading when they began their tests. Mr. Leininger and I were both bored today, but made the best of it. I hope tomorrow will be more exciting.
Today I taught my last lesson to my class. The lesson was about patterns. To begin my lesson, I called students up to represent different patterns. They learned about ABC, AAB, ABB, ABAB, ABA, and ABCABBC patterns. When I was finished showing the class different examples of patterns they had to do a worksheet. The worksheet was called “Penguin Patterns”. It had a penguin at the beginning of the pattern and it told the students how to color the Christmas lights. They first did part of the worksheet on their own and did we did the rest as a class. When they completed the worksheet they then had to choose a pattern they completed on the penguin pattern worksheet on color it on a candy cane. Overall the kids enjoyed the lesson and made beautiful candy canes. I think this lesson went better than my Thanksgiving lesson.
Today I got to grade paper for Mrs. Peake. I didn’t get to do this yesterday because the students took most of the class period to complete them. It was a pretty easy test to grade so it didn’t take me long. Most of the students did well. A big problem some of them ran into was following instructions. They lost points because they incorrectly did part of the test, not because they didn’t know the information. This was frustrating for me because Mrs. Peake went over the instructions and it was silly for them to lose points when they knew their words. They knew their words when they played the vocabulary review games and it showed. They got to enjoy the games and really get into them because of it. Second block didn’t have quite as many errors when it came to instructions, but rather with their words. They couldn’t get in to the games like first block did because they didn’t know their words as well. Over all both classes did pretty well.
Today was a little bit of a unusual health day because some of the classes did health, while others got to play. I started off my morning by helping Coach Frye with the Pink Eye worksheets he had assigned to the seventh graders. Some of them were having some difficulty finding answers to the questions about the Pink Eye article. Many of them got it right off the “bat”, and after the whole class was done, they were allowed to ether play basketball, volleyball, or jump rope. I didn’t get to play, because it was time for me to leave and go to English 4 at the high school.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the seventh and eight graders do different things than the sixth graders, and today was one of those days. The sixth graders got to play, and when I came back for my first six grade class, I played with Joseph, Hunter, Dayonte, and Brady. I said goodbye to them and wish them a great day at North Central, and the next class got to come in. The boys were a little rowdy and got punished by watching the girls get to play first. They eventually got to play, and I throwed the football with Thomas, Zack, Shaun, Skyler, Marque, and Coach Frye. Tomorrow I teach my first lesson, and I am a little nervous because I don’t want to mess up.
This morning I returned to my placement. I love walking in every morning to big smiles on the students faces. I really missed that while I was out. When I arrived this morning to the school, I felt worse than I had the two days I was out. I wanted so badly to feel better so that I could interact with them like I usually do. The kids all wanted to hug me but I did not want to get them sick. After morning work, the morning show they have on Tuesdays and Thursdays and their daily trip to the bathroom, Bryceson was told to go read with me. I was very proud of him today! He read so well and quickly. Part of it I felt was because he liked the book and partly because he is understanding that I am there to listen to him and help him. I love when I can see that the kids are comfortable around me because reading can be very confidential. Some students that are behind on their reading levels tend to get embarrassed as they read. I am starting to see the students I am talking about warm up to me and the fact that I am there to do nothing but help.
ReplyDeleteToday was a typical day in second grade. I got the classroom and got started on some work. I grabbed all of the students’ folders and began organize their assignments from last night into stacks. I was really surprised at every students’ ability to do their homework on time. I am not used to that in high school. After I finished with that, we all went to the back of the room for Morning Meeting. Mrs. Catoe did the usual ordeal and discussed upcoming events in the month. Then the class returned to their desks and started working on their daily language and mathematics exercises. Once that was finished and collected, they got out their Grinch activity books and began those. They have to read a part of the story then illustrate it each day. It is a very cute activity for them. Overall, the day went well and went by quickly. I am enjoying my time with Mrs. Catoe and those children. They all make me feel like a great teacher, which is pretty amazing.
ReplyDeleteToday was basically a review day. Mrs. Mathis went over the test that they took the other day. She told me that they did not do to well. This bothered me because I taught them one of the lessons they were tested on. I think that the reason they did bad was because they do not work out their problems. They think they know everything and don’t have to work it out. This however is not the case. They make simple mistakes. Really the students deserve a hundred because they know what to do, but they make such simple mistakes. Mrs. Mathis is not going to be at school tomorrow, and she is letting them redo the test. She is letting them REDO the test. This to me is crazy. In high school if you don’t do it right the first time you don’t get it right. You just have tuff luck. I really admire Mrs. Mathis because I can really tell she loves her job. After she went over the test and told them to take the test home and study it she went over their homework. After that, she had five minutes of the class left, and she taught a lesson. She TAUGHT a lesson. She uses every minute wisely and I like that. I don’t think she should have begun another lesson, but it was alright. I think if she were a high school teacher she would teach for an hour and a half. I would not like that at all, but that’s why I think she is perfect for the middle school. After that class left, I went outside to watch the classes change. She came out there with me, and she talked to me about the eighth graders. I was talking about their personalities, and she told me that she is there to help boost their character. This to me was amazing. She is not only there to educate a group of students, but she is there to motivate them and mold them into great people. I think that a lot of teachers at North Central are like that. All the teachers here care about more than our education, they also care about our well-being. This is why North Central is polite and almost everyone is nice. I think that the teachers here molded us to be this way, and I can definitely see that in Mrs. Mathis. I hope one day if I become a teacher, I can be like her.
ReplyDeleteDec 12/ 2013 Today during Mrs. Mason’s class we had to do what we had been doing the rest of the week which was to take our AR tests on the laptops. Once I read with a couple of the kids she started sending them to the back to take their tests. Once they were finished Mrs. Mason asked me to do her a favor. She asked me if I would download some apps on her recently acquired iPads for her classroom. I downloaded Accelerated Reader and another app on there for the kids. Once I was finished downloading the apps she brought the kids to sit down in front of the writing board. She asked the kids what were some good traits about their classmates. They had very nice things to say about one another. Once we filled up half the page with nice things to say about each other it was time for me to leave.
ReplyDeleteI did my teacher observed lesson today. The day started out with the children doing a worksheet like always. After Mrs. Gandy went over it, she went to the board and did the calendar. They did their calendar without much trouble. It went rather smoothly. After they finished it up I was still helping out a boy who was writing 40s instead of 10s. We got it fixed and I moved on to the rug to start my lesson. I started out asking who had heard of “the Five Little Monkeys” stories, most of them had. I read them the book and they listened and read along with me. I got them to read the doctors part, “no more monkeys jumping on the bed.” They seemed to really enjoy it. Afterwards I sent them back to their seats and handed out my monkey worksheet. I told them to give their monkeys eyes and a mouth, they took that and ran with it. Most had big red smiles, but others had kissy faces. Some kids gave their monkeys eyelashes. They were some creative monkey that were all kinds of colors: green, red, purple, yellow. They then pasted their arms and legs onto their monkey and some even named theirs. Mrs. Gandy even hung the monkeys from the ceilings. It was really cute. Afterwards they got into group time but I had to leave. I loved teaching them.
ReplyDeleteTo follow up my lesson from yesterday, Mrs. Kahler had the 8th graders complete a works cited page for the webquest that they have been working on this week. She had them format it according to MLA. Because I know MLA well, I was able to move around the classroom and help the students who were having trouble. I got to connect with almost every student one-on-one! It was awesome and I feel like I got to know so much more about each of them. I’m so glad that Mrs. Kahler is teaching them how to complete a works cited page while they are in middle school. In my first English class in high school, I was completely shocked that my teachers expected me to know MLA format already. I think that these eighth graders will be much better prepared for high school, next year!
ReplyDeleteToday was an extremely dreary day at my placement. I began the class by going over the South Carolina facts with the students. We quickly went over them because the students had to take their test. The students had to take their test over the antebellum period. While the students took their test, Mr. Leininger had me grade their facts quizzes. I went to the workroom and ran all five of Mr. Leininger’s classes’ scantrons through the machine. Once I finished and returned to his room, he wanted me to help him break the grade on the scantrons down. I went through and marked off a certain number of questions and then counted the number they had wrong for that section. I did this until the end of class. The students turned their tests into me and I began to grade them while the other class came in. I went over the South Carolina facts with them and went back to grading when they began their tests. Mr. Leininger and I were both bored today, but made the best of it. I hope tomorrow will be more exciting.
ReplyDeleteThe kids had MAPS testing today so I sat in there with them all morning
ReplyDeleteToday I taught my last lesson to my class. The lesson was about patterns. To begin my lesson, I called students up to represent different patterns. They learned about ABC, AAB, ABB, ABAB, ABA, and ABCABBC patterns. When I was finished showing the class different examples of patterns they had to do a worksheet. The worksheet was called “Penguin Patterns”. It had a penguin at the beginning of the pattern and it told the students how to color the Christmas lights. They first did part of the worksheet on their own and did we did the rest as a class. When they completed the worksheet they then had to choose a pattern they completed on the penguin pattern worksheet on color it on a candy cane. Overall the kids enjoyed the lesson and made beautiful candy canes. I think this lesson went better than my Thanksgiving lesson.
ReplyDeleteToday I got to grade paper for Mrs. Peake. I didn’t get to do this yesterday because the students took most of the class period to complete them. It was a pretty easy test to grade so it didn’t take me long. Most of the students did well. A big problem some of them ran into was following instructions. They lost points because they incorrectly did part of the test, not because they didn’t know the information. This was frustrating for me because Mrs. Peake went over the instructions and it was silly for them to lose points when they knew their words. They knew their words when they played the vocabulary review games and it showed. They got to enjoy the games and really get into them because of it. Second block didn’t have quite as many errors when it came to instructions, but rather with their words. They couldn’t get in to the games like first block did because they didn’t know their words as well. Over all both classes did pretty well.
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