4th week!

I think that my 4th week went very well. There is always up and downs and discipline problems, but really I have been extremely blessed by God to be in a wonderful school and with a wonderful CT. This week I really felt like the teacher when I was teaching. I have tried to make my presence known as a teacher to the students from day one so that they would look at me in that way when I started taking over the classroom. Overall, it is working very well.

I taught Math and parts of Language Arts this past week. I noticed my CT stopped intervening in my lessons pretty much now, so I guess I am starting to get the hang of things. My CT did my mid-term evlaution and it went really well! That really did give me a boost of confidence because I really wasn't sure how she felt about my performance so far. The main thing that I need to work on is transitions. It can really be hard sometimes to make quick and nice transitions between projects and subjects with first graders. Honestly, sometimes I feel like they need to talk a little bit when it is about time to change gears because otherwise they get so burned out and can't focus on the next lesson. I feel like they are only six and they need that time to talk and clear their mind if you really expect them to focus again on the next project or lesson. So transitions is my big goal that I am working on this week.

I will be teaching Math and Language Arts this week. Those two subjects pretty much cover the whole day. We only usually have time to cover social studies and science two days a week for about 45 minutes. I am looking forward to teaching more language arts this week and taking over most of the roles in the classroom. I have found myself starting to get attached to my kids already and know that it is going to be hard to say goodbye in only 4 weeks!