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I felt much better this morning, there really wasn’t much going on other than I needed to get things corrected this morning when I came in. I got it all done before even 8 am. I enjoy coming in and getting work done right away in the morning. Today I taught the usual things- handwriting, daily math, daily language, social, and science. It all went really well. I think I lost the students during science. It is a very boring subject- and I tried to make Venn diagrams interesting, but in science it really isn’t. They are reading a paragraph about two different things, and then they compare and contrast them using the Venn diagrams. I’ve never been a fan of graphic organizers, so having to teach one that I do in my head makes things a little weird. I did my best, but I need to make it more interesting. I’ll see what I can do to finish it up tomorrow, so that we can keep on moving into the week. As for social, I LOVE using the SMART board. They have an interactive map, the students can move the continents into their own place, and each continent is a different color. It is a lot of fun to do things with it! I can’t even explain how much I enjoy having it!

Other than that, it was a pretty normal day. I did have a conversation with the 4th grade male teacher today. We talked after walking the students to the buses, and he said stuff about how hard it can be mentally on teachers. We are exhausted at the end of days, but it isn’t a physical exhaustion, it is a mental exhaustion. I totally agree and I have only been doing this for 3 weeks (4 weeks if you count workshop days), and then I head to another job because I have no choice. I had also talked to the PE teacher today about how in almost every other internship gets paid, while student teaching isn’t only non-paid, but it is also an experience that we have to pay to do (he brought the subject up). We had also talked about a few of the benefits about commuting to work how it can be times to collect thoughts, or sometimes even collect yourself. I find it nice when a teacher is willing to share information, or insight