Day Five

Week Number One
Day Number Five
Hours Worked (11:00-3:00) total: 4 hours

So it is the end of my first week working at the elementary school and I am so glad that I did it. When I walked into the classroom this morning it was empty and I remembered that today was the second day of NEWA testing. NEWA is New Hampshire's version of MCAS so I had to wait about fifteen minutes for them to finish their testing.

Today I got to eat lunch with the class which was a lot of fun! They were telling me about their brothers and sisters or what they had planned for this weekend. Ms. Wallace was on lunch duty today which was the reason why I got to eat lunch with them. After lunch Ms. Wallace was on homework duty, which is the time when kids can finish their homework that they did not do last night, finish a test, or if they got in trouble before recess this is the time when they would do their punishment and read during recess.

During this time, Ms. Wallace and I decided that on Monday we are going to look at my goals sheet and see how we have been coming along with my goals. Also I am going to start sitting on the forth and fifth grade classes and see how the teaching is different or if it is the same. Over the weekend I am going to make a lesson plan for Monday's class, and teach them Spanish for forty five minutes on Monday afternoon. I am thinking of teaching them body parts and two verbs. Those two verbs are TOCAR and LEVANTAR. then I am going to be playing Simon says with them, and lastly make a slide show of my trip to Spain.

Friday is spelling test day. during their tests Ms. Wallace read a paragraph to the class, on the student's sheet there are blanks in the paragraph, and they had to spell those blanks correctly.
Then there is a challenge part which tests them on phonics that they learned that week, on this test it was making compound words. During the test I made copies of the students progress reports and put them together for the kids to take home. While the class was at their special for the day (computer) Ms. Wallace worked with a forth grade class and their production of Macbeth. Then we went into the storage closet and got some colored construction paper for them to make Mother's day cards. The cards had to be written in their best cursive and with all the spelling correctly in their poems about their mother. While they were writing their poems they would come up to me and ask me if they spelt the words right in their poems. It felt very good to see that they could rely on me to help them with their corrections.