Crazy Tuesday

I was really looking forward to morning meeting this morning because it was my first time leading it. Unfortunately, 6th graders from the Environmental group came to our class to do a morning meeting activity. So, my morning meeting duties got pushed to tomorrow. I did, at least, get to run the daily chart reading and shares. Tomorrow I will do the greeting and activity that I had planned and I will also run the meeting on Thursday and possibly Friday as well.
My CT told me that this Friday she will also be taking half a personal day because she needs to go with her daughter to an appointment. I will be teaching all afternoon, so it won’t matter much. It should be interesting to see how that goes though. I think I will feel more comfortable being more on my own, but we’ll see.

The afternoon went by pretty quickly. I did handwriting, poetry, science in pit, and math. Handwriting went very well. Poetry was a little harder because I thought I was running short on time, though I wasn’t. We squeezed poetry in, but the class started getting a little rowdy. Our TA was a sub today so he had also given the conflicting instructions to what I had given them. I told the class to freeze and repeated my directions, then I told them if they had already done it the other way, that is ok too. Pit wasn’t bad today either – I ran it myself. It was difficult getting volunteers to get the zoomers working well – I had to practice them for days just to figure them out, so they weren’t the best tools to be using, but a few kids got the hang of it after a few tries. They seemed excited to try them back in their classrooms. I set up a little science center in my classroom with all of the materials from our pit experiments so that we can work on them when there is spare time. They are especially useful during indoor recess.

The first grade teachers met today during specials to plan for the next few weeks. We planned our Valentines Day party for Monday as well. It looks like after our Balance and Motion unit, the other student teacher and I will trade off with the other teachers like they usually do for pit lessons, and we will go back to having pit every other day instead of every day.