Thursday, February 3rd

Today Mrs. Gibson went home halfway through the day. So for the afternoon I taught the children with a little help from the substitute checking their work at work time. Everything went pretty smoothly. I got through calendar and math and I feel the children have a good handle on their teens which was what I started teaching yesterday. We then made valentine bees. Mrs. Gibson recommended that I teach one step and then let the children work on that part of the bee, and then model the next step. I think this took a long time because many children were faster than others and would just sit for a while while the other children were finishing up. I tried to direct children who were all done with a step at a table to go on, but this was hard for them to hear and hard for me to tell everything that was important. I would have to get the children’s attention every few minutes so they could listen to the next set of instructions. There were two more pieces to glue on the bee and it was free time. I talked with the sub and the children had already had an extra play time so we decided to work through free time. The only other thing that was tough was that I thought Mrs. Gibson had already done the folders for the day (pack them with important sheets and fill out the communication chart for each child.) but she hadn’t. I gave all the children the papers but wasn’t able to get the communication charts done.