First Snow Day

   So it is official! We have had our first snow day, though to be fair it should have been a normal day. We already had Monday and Tuesday off before the storm, but Tuesday was a teacher work day. That day is now Thursday, so no students and that uses two of our days, which I find really unnecessary.

   I feel like we are wasting snow days for nothing. I mean, I am sure that lots of teachers have been working and doing things from home, so we don't really need that work day. Or couldn't they picked a different day for it or even turn one of the PD days into a work day instead because we have plenty of those.

   Though, I think this is happening is because teachers need a day to complete report cards and they can only do that at school. Lucky for me, we don't have to give out report cards this semester.

   Hopefully, we do go in tomorrow for our teacher work day and the comes come in on Friday or else we have then missed a whole week of school. 

Anyways.... I thought I would share some pictures from the blizzard. 

My car got completely covered and can barely tell that it is blue not white. 

Just to give you an idea how much I got. 

Can you spot the road? The snow is so tall that you can't tell it was been plowed. 

   One really great thing about all these snow days is that I am very ahead with making products for my TPT store. I have products made all the way into April, though I am only uploading one product a week. For right now that is all I can manage, but I feel very proud of myself and one less thing to worry about. 

Student Teaching: Pre-Primary: Week 6

On Monday we were closed and I spent this time preparing for my COL because I was beginning on Wednesday and my supervisor was going to come on that day. I wanted to start typing up my lessons plans since this COL has to go in my portfolio. 

Tuesday we celebrated Dr. Seuss Day and we had a blast. I made green eggs for the kids to try and most of them enjoyed eating the eggs. While making the eggs the burner stopped working for a few minutes, but my mentor got it working again and all was well. We read lots of Dr. Seuss books and activities that went along with each book. 

Wednesday was a normal somewhat normal school day. We had missed our counselor day last week, so we had this day. It was during out reading group time, so we did not have reading groups on this day. Also my Supervisor came in and observed me during my math lesson. 

Thursday and Friday were both snow days. I spent Thursday mostly relaxing and wondering if schools were going to be open or closed tomorrow. On Friday I did some shopping later in the day when it was safe to drive on the roads. I also did a lot of planning for the upcoming week since this upcoming week is going to be my teach week. 

Lastly, this weekend I decided on what I wanted to give the students and my mentor because believe or not this next week is going to be my second to last week with the students before I go back to my primary class. 

Student Teaching: Pre-Primary: Week 5

This semester is going by so fast and this week was just as crazy as last week. We had a two hour delay on Monday and on Friday. We also had no school on Thursday. 

Monday was crazy and my first day doing whole group. On Tuesday whole group was better since school was on time and I was able to fit everything in on time. I continued that on Wednesday. 

On Friday, I did nothing but give the math test because we had a drama performance that took up the rest of the time at school.

Nothing really interesting happened besides that. I have to be honest that I can't wait for these last 3 weeks to be over because I am late everyday there. The thing is that the other team teachers come in and always have to talk to her or she has the special ED teachers that need to talk to her about one of her students, so what we need to discuss is after all of that. 

I know in my primary weeks that won't happen and so we will have more time to plan during the day and not so much after school. Also my mentor has kids and has to leave at a certain to get things done. 

Reading with Singing

Who can find the road? 

There is not too much snow out right now, but it is still snowing and I believe it's not going to stop until the afternoon or possibly later. 

Another snow day and I don't have to go to work either. I'm glad that I don't have class today because this gives me time to send my mentor my lesson plan for March 13 and ask her about another lesson plan that I want to do on the 17. Her school is also closed, so hopefully she will get back to me today and I will work on that lesson too.

This project took such a long time to complete and I wanted to make sure that I took my time when drawing the pictures, so needless to say this almost took me all day to complete. I'm not even hundred percent that I'm even that happy with it, though I did get to use my laminator. That was exciting and scary because I didn't want to ruin the pictures I spent some much time. I'm happy with my purchase.

Anyways for one of my class we had to create a book using the lyrics from a song. The song didn't have to be a children's song. I picked the Nina's Song by the Imagination Movers from on the Disney Channel. At my daycare center, one of the teachers had their CD and I found the songs on their to be very catching and got the children to move around.

The thing that bothers me is that you can't really turn the pages now that they are laminated. Overall, I'm pleased with it and I'm glad that it's finished. Hopefully I get a good grade. When the professor talked about it last class, she made it seem like it's not that big of a deal.

Here are a few pictures. Sorry they are not the best because I was trying to hold it open while taking a picture.