Day Twenty: Literacy Day!

Today is Literacy Day!  I got to stay at school until 8pm.  I also got to plan a Social Studies lesson with the help of my partner teacher (PT).  We are doing a lesson on Meteghan in NS.  The kids get to build fishing boats out of tinfoil and skewers and toothpicks.  It also ties in with Boats and Buoyancy in grade 2 Science.  Oh yeah!! Dual purpose lesson! I rock!  I get to teach them on Tuesday next week.  After this I went for supper with my PT and her co-teacher.  I gave them a lesson in Hutterites and about how there are three different kinds in Canada.  They thought it was neat.  We headed back to the school and I got to meet some of the parents and listen to a story tht was read to the kids in the gym.  They all got to wear their PJ's.  After the book there was a presentation for parents about how to make literacy easy.  The ideas included reading a recipe, a grocery list, signs outside, reading to each other.  I even got milk and cookies.  It was good to see my teacher and the kids outside the formal learning environment.  It helps you feel like you are more a part of the community instead of an entity inside a building.  I told my PT that I would be an annoying student teacher by exclaiming this is great!! I LOVE this kind of thing.  Of course we had to have the negative people who were like it was too late  and the story was too long and why did I have to come on my off hours?  Uh...because you are a teacher?  Anyway, I had a blast.