Monday: My teaching observation

I was super rested today for school which was enjoyable. When I got to school, I looked over my lesson plan I had written the night before. At 9am my directors came in to watch me teach my lesson to the second graders. I taught about fact and opinion. I started out with a little game and then went into what exactly a fact was and what an opinion was. The kids were all participating and seemed to understand it. I really enjoyed doing the lesson. After the reading part of class it was time for math. I was continuing teaching the math lesson from friday. The students did a worksheet activity and then my teacher approached me asking if I wanted to teach the next lesson also. I really like how she is giving me so much opportunity to practice and teach the class. She explained that the next lesson was harder for the children to understand and she would love to see how I teach it because she might be able to learn from me. That made me feel really good. Unfortunately, we ran out of time. I will be teaching it on wednesday, because they don't have school again tomorrow (They get A LOT of vacations). After lunch, my teacher had me pick up the class and continue their journal writing with them because she had a meeting. I had them all read their writings to the class if they wanted to. So basically, I taught for the first half of the day and I loved it!!! It was fun and I really enjoyed it. I can't wait to see my video of me teaching because I can learn so much from watching myself. During religion time when they were practicing for communion, they were instructed to go and say "peace be with you" to their "parents" (as practice) and they all came up to me in the back. haha it was cute!! Obviously, I had a pretty awesome day!

****SIDE NOTE: I forgot to mention. Last week I caught one of the girls in my class, sneaking in her desk glue. She was literally taking chunks of her glue stick and chewing on it!!!!! OMG, so gross! I had to tell her to go spit it out and took her glue from her. I couldn't believe that, literally chewing! not even licking. lol exciting part of my day