Thursday. 11.17.11

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Monday. 11.7.11

Today when I got to class I went to the art room.  In the art room I was cutting stripes of paper with quotes on them.  My cooperating teacher does a reading and running program.  She found out the students really liked her quotes, so she gives them a motivational quote everyday after reading and running.  When I got done cutting paper I started helping students 1:1.  I helped a couple students with math and then one student with reading.  After helping the students I observed the teacher, teaching the math lesson.  After the math lesson, and helping students for a little while I left.

Friday 11.4.11

Today we started with math.  The students were doing a worksheet that was challenging.  After the worksheet, we started the next math lesson.  Then I took 9 students to the hallway to read.  The students were disrespectful during the reading.  After the book they got to take an online quiz about the book for free points.  Since many students weren't listening not very many got the free points.  Then I went to the third grade.  There, I did a lot of grading and entered grades in the grade book.  Then I went back to the fourth grade.  I gave a student a spelling test 1:1 and it was successful!  Then the crazy day was over.

Wednesday. 11.2.11

Today we started with math.  I took a student to the back of the room to work with him 1:1.  That took about and hour and  a half.  Then I went in the hallway and hung up art projects.  After that, I went to the third grade.  It was a student's birthday so I got a cupcake!!  I helped the teacher fix her projector and then the students were reading.  While the students were reading I just observed.  Then I went back to the fourth grade.  The student's did silent reading until recess.

Wednesday. 10/26/11

The students had testing all day, but I was able to pick at my teachers brain.
Her favorite type of assessment is using the white boards.
Her help for new teachers is to not get over involved. You are a teacher your job is 7:30-4, then you have family time.
The thing she encouraged the most was to be assertive.

Monday. 10.24.11

Today the students had state tests.  I got to do tedious little jobs for four hours. The longest day of my entire life.  Then after the tedious jobs I went home.

Wednesday. 10.19.2011

Today I started by stapling the student's art projects to construction paper.  The most difficult part of this task was figuring out who made what because I was suppose to put the students name on the back of the construction paper.  After that I took a student to the back of the classroom to work on additional math problems while the teacher was going over the lesson.  The student enjoyed the attention but also was able to better understand the content.  After math is language arts.  The students had the computer lab today!  South Elementary has a traveling computer lab.  This type of lab is nice for larger schools.  Coincidentally they have the same computers that I had in high school.  The memories I have of these laptops where nightmarish.  All I remember is having to re-image numerous computers and the dreadful "blue screen of death".  So to continue the nightmares one of the computers did not connect to the network so you could not even log in.  The student's were able to take quizzes online over books they have read. The kids were in groups of four to six.  The different groups had different books.  Within the groups students were able to ask each other questions about what they did not understand and talk about what they enjoyed  most about the book.  When the students took the quizzes online they were able to work together in their group.  Once the groups were done with the quizzes it was time for ph. ed..
During ph.ed. I went to the third grade room like usually.  Today the third graders were in the library learning  about resources so I was sent to another third grade room.  Since it is a short week because of parent teachers conferences the teachers were caught up.  So I went back to the third grade room I am usually in and organized bags of shapes for the students.  I really liked how the teacher labeled each bag with the students name so she knew they all had their own bag.  After that I went back to the fourth grade room and corrected papers.  Not long after I started correcting the students came back from ph. ed..
After pe. ed. the students continued working on their clay projects.  The students were split into 5 groups and were assigned a section of a book they had read in class.  In the groups they got to make a clay representation of what they thought of the section of the book they were assigned.  The students were extremely creative and artistic.  While working on their projects I was walking between groups to see what they had done and what they were adding to their projects.  One student called me over to a group, so I went to see what his question was.  His question was, "Mrs. Bollingberg, will you be my girlfriend?"  How do you politely turn down a fourth grader especially when they are singing to you. #Awkward.  Now it was time for recess/lunch.  The students lined up for recess and when they were quiet and standing with their arms by their sides they were able to go.  After they left, my day was over.