When I walked into the second grade classroom this morning, all the kids were gathered around a blanket in the middle of the meeting rug. As I walked in closer, I realized there were four little chicks on the blanket. One of the girls in the class, her family had just hatched some chicks and she brought them in for show and tell. After morning meeting, the kids quickly got back to work on their research books. During this time, I took the kids in small groups down to the library to either get last minute research done, or get photos for their books. Later in the day, I went to the fourth grade classroom again and continued the writing/editing workshop on their persuasive essays.
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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