Today was the last day that Ms. Lisa would be gone. I taught math first hour. It was so frusterating because when I got to school I felt as if nothing was working. I wanted to print a lesson plan and a fractions pre-assessment and the printer wasn’t working from our classroom computer. I tried it from my laptop and that wasn’t working either, so I made my way down to the computer lab. I saved the information I needed on a zip drive and then inserted it into the a Mac to print. The computer said that I needed an administrator’s password to add the printers. So finally I just forgot about it and taught with my laptop up at the front of the classroom for me to look at.
Later on in the day when I was trying to get some information off of the shared server, we lost power in our room and the computer needed to be rebooted. When it was up and running again I asked an Information Technology employee to help me access the shared area because it was not working. He came up to help, but it didn’t seem to help, I still couldn’t access the area once he left. Ah, gotta love technology – I just think it wasn’t my day. Despite all of the problems everything ended up working just fine.
Since Ms. Lisa was gone, I was pretty much full time in the classroom for year six. I taught two language lessons today as well. We continued our lesson on how to create persuasive statements. I was encouraging the students to use “connectives” in their sentences and emotive language to improve their writing. For example, despite the fact that the animals are being taken care of at a circus they are being deprived of their natural habitat where they can run free, enjoy the fresh air, and lead a natural life. The students will eventually be doing some persuasive writing pieces and end the inquiry with debates.
During my two free periods today when the students had Spanish I wrote up some “sub/cover” notes for Ms. Lisa to inform her what had been going on in the classroom for the last three days. I would post the notes, but they are pretty lengthy and boring…a lot has happened in three days! =] However, writing the notes gave me a good opportunity to reflect on what has happened the past three days, and realize where we need to be by the end of the week. In the cover notes I also noticed myself reflecting on my own teaching, which was helpful. In addition, I made sure to write any questions I had for Ms. Lisa throughout the week on the “cover” notes.
Tomorrow I was asked to go on a field trip with a year four teacher and students. They are going on a trip to the recycling center. It fits nicely in with their unit that they are studying. Ms. Bell the teacher asked if I would like to come along as another chaperone. She thought it might be nice to have a little variety and interact with some other students at the school. I’m excited for the trip.
Bye for now.
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