Teaching

As the weeks pass I am taking on more and more in the classroom, and I love the challenge! So far I am teaching a math and reading group everyday. I am doing the morning and afternoon "wrap-up stuff" and coming up with lessons for science. I was observed this week by a professor from the local college and she thinks I have "mastered" guided reading (yah!) she also said I have a good "authoritative" teacher voice. This was all a relief to hear!

Teaching math (or maths as they say) has been the most challenging for me. (Probably because math is and has always been my worst subject!) Their curriculum is very different but I think after a couple of weeks I have finally become accustomed to it. We just wrapped up fractions, decimals and percentages in my group and I could not be happier, I think teaching fractions is the worst! But I have done no permanent damage to the kids and I think they might have actually walked away understanding fractions a little better ;)

Last weekend I went with Dave, daisy and Eden to a local aquarium to check out all the cute (and creepy) underwater creatures! We saw penguins, squid and huge manta rays!