Day 6 in the classroom
Another near-sleepless night. This time, I only waited until 1 in the morning to decide to take Nyquil just to sleep. That can't be good for you, to take Nyquil just to get to sleep at night.. but I can't sleep lately. I don't know why. I don't drink caffeine (it gives me a headache.. so I don't drink most sodas, except for Sprite, and I very rarely ever drink coffee). I don't eat candy before bed (I hardly ever do, actually). I'm not doing anything differently from normal, but I just can't fall asleep. Even when I take something to sleep, I'm still waking up every about hour and a half, which really sucks. This entire week so far, I think I've gotten a total of about 12 hours of sleep. I'm to the point where I'm running on empty. I'm too tired to be tired anymore.
Today was a lot better than Tuesday was. (I don't think it could have possibly been worse than Tuesday).
In the morning, I took two students to work on math review individually with them. We did a couple worksheets and then practiced problems using counters (these little plastic dot things) so they could physically see what they were doing. That was a fun experience to do.
The students had a spelling test today, and I took two of the students to do a different spelling test than the rest of the class. They needed a lot of help, which was definitely a new experience for me. I couldn't give them the answers, obviously, but I gave them a lot of help. For example, one of the words they had to spell was "inside" and they'd both written "i-n-s-i-d." To get that far though, we sounded out the word together. ih nnn sss I duh. Then I reminded them "what's the "magic E" rule?" (In case you didn't know, the "magic E" rule is that the E at the end of words like "inside" where the vowel "says its name", it says its name because of the "magic E" at the end of the word.)
I corrected math tests, spelling tests, and reading comprehension tests today. My math assessment was too hard for the students (did you know that questions with two part answers are to hard for first graders? Yeah, that's something you shouldn't do until about third grade. I didn't know that.) So I had to go to the computer lab real quick to fix it and make it easier. It wasn't too big of a deal, but I felt bad and I felt kind of foolish for not knowing that. But I mean, how could I have known something I was never told or taught? My mentor teacher said it wasn't a big deal as well and not to worry about it. It was a learning experience, and that's what being in the school like this is all about.
Again, I took them down to lunch. And again, reminded them to say "please" and "thank you" when getting their food, and was happy to see them do that. They make me so proud!
Again, I was frustrated with them during journals. I just don't like when they don't listen to their classmates read. Their classmates are getting up there in front of them to read what they wrote, and no one is paying any attention. "Boys and girls! You need to be sitting down, facing front and listening to your classmate read!" I called out certain students by name this time instead of generalizing to the whole class. Four boys were talking while another was reading, and I called them out on it. "(names 1-4) the talking needs to stop." When a girl kept getting up and trying to talk to me while other people were reading, I repeatedly told her "you need to sit back down."
During free time, one of they boys was pretending his fingers were guns. "Bang! Bang!" Yeahhh no. I got his attention, and told him to stop. "(name) no playing guns in school." He looks at me and says "but I can." Now, I don't know if that sort of behavior is actually allowed or not, but with schools getting so uptight and with school shootings in the news more often than they should be, I wasn't allowing it. "It's not appropriate for school and you need to stop."
I teach my lesson on Tuesday, and after my assessment went so terribly, I'm a bit more nervous about it. But, I mean, the lesson is coming right out of a book and the assessment was something I had to create on my own. I am going to create a math bingo game to end my lesson with. I think (hope!) they'll enjoy that. I'm teaching a math lesson on adding multiples of 10 to two-digit numbers. What I'm going to do with Bingo is create 20 different bingo cards on Photoshop (there's 20 students in the class). I'm going to call out the problem and they'll look for the answer on their card (so if I call out "22 + 20" they're going to look for 42 on their cards).
Now time for funny/adorable/memorable things they said today!
Student: You're married?
Me: What?? No..?
Student: You're wearing a ring.
Me: Oooh. It's my class ring. From high school.
Student: People get married in high school?!?
Me: Not usually.
A student comes up to me while I'm correcting papers.
Student: Did you know that if a mom has a baby in her stomach, I mean if she's having twins, and if she doesn't put a line between them, one can eat the other one?
Me: I'm not sure that's true.
Student: It is! The mom has to put a line or one twin will eat the other.
Me: Where did you learn this from?
Student: My aunt ate her twin.
I think that's about it for this post. Today was a good learning day. Like, I learned a lot from what I did today. It was a good day.
Today was a lot better than Tuesday was. (I don't think it could have possibly been worse than Tuesday).
In the morning, I took two students to work on math review individually with them. We did a couple worksheets and then practiced problems using counters (these little plastic dot things) so they could physically see what they were doing. That was a fun experience to do.
The students had a spelling test today, and I took two of the students to do a different spelling test than the rest of the class. They needed a lot of help, which was definitely a new experience for me. I couldn't give them the answers, obviously, but I gave them a lot of help. For example, one of the words they had to spell was "inside" and they'd both written "i-n-s-i-d." To get that far though, we sounded out the word together. ih nnn sss I duh. Then I reminded them "what's the "magic E" rule?" (In case you didn't know, the "magic E" rule is that the E at the end of words like "inside" where the vowel "says its name", it says its name because of the "magic E" at the end of the word.)
I corrected math tests, spelling tests, and reading comprehension tests today. My math assessment was too hard for the students (did you know that questions with two part answers are to hard for first graders? Yeah, that's something you shouldn't do until about third grade. I didn't know that.) So I had to go to the computer lab real quick to fix it and make it easier. It wasn't too big of a deal, but I felt bad and I felt kind of foolish for not knowing that. But I mean, how could I have known something I was never told or taught? My mentor teacher said it wasn't a big deal as well and not to worry about it. It was a learning experience, and that's what being in the school like this is all about.
Again, I took them down to lunch. And again, reminded them to say "please" and "thank you" when getting their food, and was happy to see them do that. They make me so proud!
Again, I was frustrated with them during journals. I just don't like when they don't listen to their classmates read. Their classmates are getting up there in front of them to read what they wrote, and no one is paying any attention. "Boys and girls! You need to be sitting down, facing front and listening to your classmate read!" I called out certain students by name this time instead of generalizing to the whole class. Four boys were talking while another was reading, and I called them out on it. "(names 1-4) the talking needs to stop." When a girl kept getting up and trying to talk to me while other people were reading, I repeatedly told her "you need to sit back down."
During free time, one of they boys was pretending his fingers were guns. "Bang! Bang!" Yeahhh no. I got his attention, and told him to stop. "(name) no playing guns in school." He looks at me and says "but I can." Now, I don't know if that sort of behavior is actually allowed or not, but with schools getting so uptight and with school shootings in the news more often than they should be, I wasn't allowing it. "It's not appropriate for school and you need to stop."
I teach my lesson on Tuesday, and after my assessment went so terribly, I'm a bit more nervous about it. But, I mean, the lesson is coming right out of a book and the assessment was something I had to create on my own. I am going to create a math bingo game to end my lesson with. I think (hope!) they'll enjoy that. I'm teaching a math lesson on adding multiples of 10 to two-digit numbers. What I'm going to do with Bingo is create 20 different bingo cards on Photoshop (there's 20 students in the class). I'm going to call out the problem and they'll look for the answer on their card (so if I call out "22 + 20" they're going to look for 42 on their cards).
Now time for funny/adorable/memorable things they said today!
Student: You're married?
Me: What?? No..?
Student: You're wearing a ring.
Me: Oooh. It's my class ring. From high school.
Student: People get married in high school?!?
Me: Not usually.
A student comes up to me while I'm correcting papers.
Student: Did you know that if a mom has a baby in her stomach, I mean if she's having twins, and if she doesn't put a line between them, one can eat the other one?
Me: I'm not sure that's true.
Student: It is! The mom has to put a line or one twin will eat the other.
Me: Where did you learn this from?
Student: My aunt ate her twin.
I think that's about it for this post. Today was a good learning day. Like, I learned a lot from what I did today. It was a good day.
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