Getting Ready for the Big Test!

Wow. Week 7 flew by! I can't believe that it's Saturday already! Let's see, what happened this week...

I gotta say that this was a pretty normal week. Nothing crazy happened. Nothing out of the ordinary. We are finishing up Story Town Theme 4 this week, with the final lesson next week which is just a review and Readers Theatre, which I am very excited about! When I started taking over the Reading block in my second week, I had started Theme 4. To be finished the whole theme, and know that I taught it is a great feeling. Hopefully the theme test will go over well!

I have also taken on Math full time. It's funny because I'm actually really good at math, even though I don't like it too much, but I think it shows. Teaching it has come more naturally to me than the Reading block, which took me up until this point to get used to and create my own kind of rhythm. With Math, I already have a rhythm and I can see a change in students' understanding already, and so can Ms. M, cause she told me :]

I decided to take a picture of a sample of my writing on the board. These are pictographs that we were working on for PSSA prep during RtI. The kids couldn't stop making fun of my ice cream cones. Hey, I never said I was an artist.

Science is getting better each day. I only taught 2 science lessons this week, because Social Studies and Science blocks are split throughout the week. Science is also something that I say I hate, yet I feel comfortable teaching it and my point gets across to the students. Isn't that ironic, that my favorite subject, Reading, was my biggest struggle teaching, and my least favorite subjects were a piece of cake?

Next week is PSSA, which is the state testing for Pennsylvania. Ms. M doesn't seem too worried about it, so I haven't really worried either. Next week will be a fun easy week. We still have to teach full days, besides the times that they take the test, which is everyday from 9:15-10:30. But the after recess and lunch blocks will be light, fun activities, though still educational. I wrote out the wholes weeks lessons myself, for the first time....

It's hard to see, but the fact that Ms. M is trusting me with the whole week is pretty awesome.

For my last note, I was grading tests last night, and I came upon this....

This is from our "problem student". He is the student who says he can never do anything, and everything is too hard. This is our Story Town Lesson 19 test, in which he got a 100 percent! When I saw this, I got really excited and texted Ms. M immediately telling her. I feel like he is finally getting it, and finally trying. He is a very smart student, yet he doesn't have the confidence in himself that he needs. And the fact that he got a 100 percent on a test from a lesson that I taught does make me feel good :)

Almost forgot... we were playing 7 up before lunch on Tuesday because we had a a few minutes to spare. One of the kids said " You can tell if a boy or girl picks you, cause girls have soft hands." Oh my gosh, I melted! How cute!