Day Twenty Eight: I Teach...By Myself!!

I got to teach a whole social studies lesson today on my own!! It was awesome.  Of course, the partner teacher ran the Smartboard, because I haven't had time to figure it out yet.  Maybe I will ask if I can play around with it one day after school.  So as for the lesson, I got to talk to the kids about the flag of Nunavut and asked them what the red object was in the middle.  They told me it was an inukshuk and they even knew what it was for!  I gave them the whole spiel about making your map as big as your page and making the colouring wonderful and beautiful and such and then asked of there were any questions....one little boy raised his hand and said, don't forget tot put your name on the back!! Of course! Duh.  How could I forget!?  So they all went off and worked and I even got to help solve some disagreements.  It was a good afternoon, except when I read them Superfudge by Judy Blume.  They laughed like crazy and then they got out of control..they were testingme and I failed.  The partner teacher had to come in and tell them to smarten up.  I could feel myself loosing control, but I did not know what to say to get them back.  Anyway, it was a good learning thing for me.  Now I know what to do next time, which will be next Tuesday!