Monday mornings are always rough, especially in 4z. This morning the kids had little to no energy to work, and after about 20 minutes of failed work time we gathered the kids up on the meeting rug. We then had them play a game in hopes to get their energy up and focus. After the game the kids started asking me a lot of questions, because I too, went to Foote I had a lot of the teachers that they have or know of. So, after about 10 minutes of answering every possible question about my time at Foote, I learned of the lack of filter that 9 year olds often have. However, after that half the kids had language and the other half stayed in class to continue work on their biographies. Today was the final day of research, and so I spent a lot of time again going over notecards, and making sure the kids knew as much about their subject as possible. Tomorrow the kids start writing their actual biography essays! I am excited to help them with that.
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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