There's no way you're 31!

11/3/10

Amy was in parent/teacher conferences all day, so I pinch hit for her.  It's so funny that I have to have someone in the class with me at all times for legal purposes.  The aids get a kick out of it - today one of them said, "the fact that I have to be here for you is just ridiculous."  It was a nice compliment, but really, I'm not bothered by it.  I understand that it's a legal issue, not a confidence in me issue.

The students were still on a sugar high.  Need to remind Amy to have the "candy talk" - no sugar before 10:00 am - and only one piece per day.  They're just going crazy.  Even one of the aids who knows the class well commented on their behavior, saying that they were "out of control" in every class that she went into today.  Someone should do a research project on the effect the candy intake has on student performance during the week after Halloween.

For Talking Calendar, we reviewed how to take bulleted information gathered from primary sources, and make connections/combinations.  This was to help them to make their sentences have more depth.  It was a quick lesson, so I added in some read aloud time.

I taught science to all three classes today, and it was a lot of fun!  We went over the information from the review packet for most of the class, then finished playing Jeopardy!  The students had a lot of fun in the process.  It was a good day (despite the MANY distractions caused by sugar highs).

When my class rotated in, I made a big deal about checking off multi-step process questions to make sure that ALL parts of the question were answered.  I had a student who loves math go to the board to record the years that I had been in school - 24 in total (!!) - I needed to establish my credibility for studying for tests.  And I told a quick version of my educational background - as well as my age - 31.  The students couldn't believe that I was 31 - they kept saying that they thought that I was in my 20s - "like no more than 22" - awesome!  I'm so much older than I look!  Even Ms. Salas couldn't believe that I was 31!  

At the end of the day, I caught up with Ms. Wink.  She asked me how it went and thanked me for my help.  She said something really sweet, she said - "It was so nice to not have to worry about the person covering for me."  YES!