Third Post

I can't believe our time is almost done in our field experience! This has been another wonderful week! I did another read aloud to the class but this time it was a curriculum based story. It went well and it was good to get the experience of doing something tied to the curriculum. Also this week, my partner and I had the chance to pretty much take over the classroom. Our CT had to go to a meeting for two hours and there was a substitute who came in. However, when he came in he asked me "so what students am I going to watch." When he said this I thought he was joking because he wasn't supposed to be watching over a few students, he was supposed to be watching over all of the students. This of course made me panic a little inside but I figured he was joking. Guess what? He wasn't joking. He sat and observed while my partner and I ran the class. We also had the Para in there who knew about the class and was able to help out but for the most part it was my partner and I leading the class! This was nerve wrecking but at the same time a great experience. I got to see what it is like to try to manage a classroom and also teach at the same time. We did the morning meeting like we normally do, we did a greeting activity, a matching vocabulary game, we covered the vocabulary for the week and had the students present the word like they have done in the past (they had to know the word, know the definition, and use it in a sentence), we went over the high frequency words and also did literacy rotations. It was crazy at times but we made it through and it made me more excited about teaching because I got a taste of what it would be like.