Week 3

Yay! Short week one of three! Less work days are always exciting however I believe number one, more will be on our plates, and number two, I’m afraid the students may be a bit wilder without having a typical structured five-day schedule over the next weeks. I feel like today (Monday) is the first in which the new field experience schedule feels quite normal. I’m especially liking my morning drive and spend a lot of time thinking of new activities and what books I’m going to read aloud during the week. I’ve had to catch myself too many times putting a book back at Target, the students are going to love this book but are they going to $19 like it? After finding out we would be leading the Red Group with their guided reading lessons I was a little nervous about how well leading the “most challenged readers” through a full lesson would go. One of the girls was very excited about the process while the other had no enthusiasm. The girl with zero enthusiasm can easily complete her work, if she attempts it and stays on track. The girl that was excited to begin has trouble staying on track and even attempting to read through challenging words. Yay…time to pull a rabbit out of the hat (I think I’ll a lot of rabbits here on out). We didn’t have enough time to finish on the first try which was quite deflating. Through this week we have been reminded on a few assignments with varied students how it shouldn’t be taking as long as it has been to finish their work. I want to make sure it shows that our attention to detail is visible but at the same time it’s a timed race, hashtag struggles; I think a trip to Express is much needed medicine. Cassie is coming to visit sometime next week, I’m really hoping I have some big shining moments to display. It was hard to believe how well behaved our class was at the student of the month assembly. I can’t lie; I almost got a bit emotional when our student received his student of the month award. He looked incredibly proud of his award. We will start working on the students’ first research papers next week which I’m looking forward. I feel like I’ll be able to teach the students some useful tips (initially wrote tricks) while also showcasing much progress to the CT. I wish we had just as much field experience but spread out over more weeks so that we could be around the students during more varied lessons.