This week in our field we were able to spent the majority of the week in the classroom. We are starting to know all of the students names and are learning more about their individual personalities. It is fun watching them as they are learning about new subjects, and seeing how they respond to the different activities the teacher has them do. The students are starting to trust us and enjoy having us in their classroom. I love listening to them tell us about their days, and getting hugs from them as we leave.
There was a substitute for two of the days we were there this week, and we learned A LOT from that experience. We weren't planning on teaching anything, but the substitute wanted our help because we had seen how Mrs. Ericksen teaches so we ended up teaching quite a few of the lessons. Our teacher left a ton of worksheets for the students to do so they wouldn't have "free time" where they could get out of control. By the end of the second day of worksheets though the students were sick of doing them and complained that they weren't really doing science. :)
We are starting our unit on Monday and I am excited to see how the students respond to the lessons we have planned. From our observations so far it doesn't seem like the arts are used very often so I am most excited to see how they respond to the lessons we have planned that incorporate that. We have an arts lesson and a dance lesson planned and hopefully they will both go smoothly.
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