1st Blog for Vera’s Class~
It is Friday and I am home from a long week! This week has been good. It has been the first week that I have not felt sick at all. Usually at least one day out of the week I just know I am sick, but this week I have felt really good. It is a very hectic schedule. I feel like I have no life outside of this program and I now have newly developed bags under my freshly 30 year old eyes ; ). I love my second grade class they are great and I cannot believe I will have to leave them in December. I think it will be very challenging to enter a new classroom in a new school when half the year has gone by. I see the importance of being in the class from day one. This week I was put with the lowest reading group, not with my mentor teacher, with another teacher in the school. There is no organization and the kids are treated really bad. On one hand I feel sorry for them because most of them don’t even know there letters, but also most of them have server behavior issues. I think most of that could be solved with some structure and routine to our reading hour but I am not the lead teacher so I have to sit by and watch as he exhaustingly yells for almost the entire hour that they should sit down, be quiet, listen up. I have to admit I am a little nervous about role reversal in the reading group because they have no system of behavior.
Well that is it for now, I must go and do some homework so I can attempt to have a life this weekend!
Melissa
