Today was another day that I spent in the fourth grade and second grade classrooms. For the most part I have been working with one fourth grade teacher, but today I was in a different class. In that class I ran the same kind of writing workshop and met with the kids separately to go over their research on their biographies. While in the second grade classroom today the kids were working on their "spirit cards" which depicted a scene from field day, and said what team they were on etc. However, when they were coloring, this one boy Henrik told me that he was color blind and that he had to read the colors on the crayons instead of just looking at them. I shared with him that my grandfather and brother are actually color blind too. Once I walked away he said that he was starting to feel confident with picking out the colors just based on what they looked like to him. However, green and brown look the same to many color blind people. So, when Henrik colored the background brown, I asked him why and he told me it was the field. I helped him change the color, but he was very upset and would not leave my side for almost an hour. After a while I told him a story about my brother being color blind and it made him feel a lot better, and I even got to introduce the two of them.
Today I really felt like a teacher... from time to time the teachers have asked me to do organization things, and even grade a few things, but today I spent the whole day grading and organizing. It was pretty wild to think that I am grown enough to grade things! I always thought of that as something that held a lot of responsibility. It was really cool to do, and I was able to work with kids who I found we having a harder time understanding certain concepts. Putting numbers into grade books made my eyes sore! I really do have a greater appreciation for teachers and understand how sometimes they take a little while to grade a test or a paper. Aside from grading and organizing and the occasional sit down with kids to go over their work, I played a really good game of checkers... I am not a checkers player, but a second grade girl asked me to play today and I couldn't say no. She plays with her family so she was surprisingly good, and I was a little embarrassed to be getting beat by a...
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