Today was my first day at a REAL school. I am placed at a K-4 school in the city with 220 students. I am in a grade 2 room. It is a very interesting set up. There are no doors. The classrooms are open spaces with gaps that represent doors, but no actual closing thing. In my room there are 40 kids and two teachers and they co-teach all those kids. It is interesting how they are completely seamless in their delivery. It amazes me that the kids can switch between two teachers without blinking. We start at 8:20 and are done at 2:50. It's nice to beat the rush home. I was pretty much observing today, although I got to help keep some boys on task (they are way harder than girls....and way more immature.) I can't believe how much technology is integrated into the classroom. There is a Smartboard, laptops to sign out for the class in the library and two computers in the classroom. They even have a LUNCH LADY!!! who does supervision in the lunch room and on the playground (a teacher is out there as well). I felt kind of lost today, but I go back tomorrow and hopefully I will feel more at home. I was told that I could just jump in at any time with something that I felt comfortable doing...I think that might wait till next week. I am not familiar with the routine yet. I wrote pages of notes and now I have to go through them all and dissect what I have written to form a journal entry for this week....should be interesting. I might share a little of what I wrote on here.
You may be wondering why I only blog Monday to Thursday..well those are school days!! It wouldn't be relevant to blog about my days off or weekends! Unless it was school related of course. Who cares that this weekend I got four kittens and we had sustained winds of 60km/h which prevented me from repairing the roof, but blew shingles off the neighbours house...no one is interested in that!!
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