May.1: Teaching Block Day 16

Before we began our blocks, Peni has said that we are responsible for teaching 50% of the day, but we can take up more during the last week if we feel comfortable. At first, I thought that Periods 3, 4, 6 and 7 are the only periods that I would be doing for my teaching block. However, I started writing the morning message, and Ms. Carson let me read it with the students. Then I began to do the verbs and nouns with them as well, and then led them through the calendar and word wall. I just took up more responsibility smoothly, and even the students noticed that. One girl came up to me and said, "You're teaching us everything now!"

During my first week, I was exhausted everyday after school. I was tired when I woke up in the morning. But by the middle of the second week, I already felt much more comfortable. By now, I'm always waking up before 6:00am, before my alarm clock even goes off. Teaching takes time to get used to, and I learned a lot throughout the process.

I discussed about seasonal clothing with the class today, and I let them draw in the different clothes and colour them. Since a lot of students have work that are not finished, I asked them to draw the clothes, then finish up their previous work before doing the seasonal clothing writing. The students who were efficient and finished everything weren't bored 'cause they had the seasonal clothing work to do, and the rest of the students had the time to catch up. They got a lot done, and I'm going to give them more time tomorrow because I'm not introducing new topics by this time of the unit.

In Math, I taught them how to make change if we're paying dimes. Most of them got it, since it is similar to yesterday's lesson. I let them finish their Art work from last week when they were done the Math. It was a catching up day, but also a productive day!