In the last week of field I did a lot of copy work to prepare my cooperating teacher for next year. As it was not the funnest job I did learn that to be organized really does pay off. I was sad to leave my classroom. My teacher and my students were really great. I was welcome the day I walked in. There are definite aspects from her classroom that I will use in my own. I have always liked the card flipping for discipline. I also liked all of her organization. As I was involved with that I do know that it does pay off to be organized in the classroom. As it was sad to leave the classroom I am excited to be finishing up the school year and graduate and begin my student teaching in the fall. It will be a real chance to put all the things I have learned to action!

This past Monday I taught a full class lesson. The topic was sound. I had planned notes and activities. Well it didn’t go as well as I hoped it to. The notes were a little to advanced for 2nd graders and I realized this during the lesson. I was trying to explain the notes in simpler terms. My class did enjoy the activity that I planned so I was happy that payed off. It went ok but I feel that I can learn more from lessons gone bad then lessons gone well.

The rest of the week I did preparatory work for my teacher. I was making materials that she will use for next years class.

After a long spring break I finally returned to Kean! The students were really happy to see me. On Monday I made copies of papers for the teacher. I also worked with an individual student on his number scroll. The students are required to keep a number scroll going starting at 100 and this student had gone up to 2,000. On Tuesday I would one-on-one with a student on ball park estimates. The student was having difficulty rounding up or down. She understood the concept but became frustrated. It took patience from me to keep the lesson going. I also created a math worksheet for my teacher on the computer. Wednesday’s activities included taking a reading record. I called each student out in the hallway and had them read from a book for 1 min. I gave side notes for the teacher if the student had difficulties on any words or if they read exceptionally well. On Thursday I was responsible for copying journal topics from this calendar year onto next years calendar.