This week has been so fun and so, so crazy! On Monday I began my final semester of college. I'm student teaching at Walton Rural Life Center in the 2nd grade classroom. I love it so much!!! Walton is unique in the sense that it is an agricultural charter school. At the school is a greenhouse, a barn, and animals- calves, chickens, a donkey, sheep, and pigs. This week happened to be my class' week to do chores, so every morning we bundled up and went outside to make sure the animals got fed. This morning, the wind chill was 1 degree fahrenheit. Brrrrrrr.
This week my jobs have included: morning lunch count and planners, being in charge of a group of kids who feed the donkey, grading papers, escorting the students to and from various specials, supervising chicken egg processing (2nd grade's project), crowd control, decorating the door, daily read aloud, helping the teacher make decisions, and much more. My cooperating teacher is FABULOUS and I am so blessed to be able to work alongside and have her as my mentor. I'm so excited to see what the next 5 weeks have in store.
One special moment for me today was when I could tell that what I've been teaching the kids is sticking. The past three days during read aloud, we've been focusing on folktales and fables. I read the books "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples' Ears" (folktale) and "Tops and Bottoms" (fable) to the class. We talked about what folktales and fables are and how fables have a moral to their story. Today I read them the book, "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters." Once we were done, I asked them to think in their heads and determine if it was a folktale or a fable. When I asked the class for a group answer, they all shouted "FABLE!!" Aaaaaaaaaah, I was so so so proud of them and so so so excited! YES!
Here are some pictures from student teaching:
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| The door decoration that I created...the bow is 3-D! |
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| Eeyore the Donkey - He was my animal to chore for the week. |
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| The 2nd grade classroom - Where all the learning happens! |
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| My desk! |
