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Talked with Miss M about yesterday, and how I thought it went. She surprised me with switching desks, so I am now at her desk and she is at my little table desk. We talked about how yesterday went, and if I got through everything. I talked to her about how I missed English, and at first I thought it was because of spelling taking so long, but it wasn’t spelling, spelling went quickly. It was the Daily Language books that took us a while because of the relearning of the quotation rules. We talked about other things, and discussed how I felt about yesterday. Then I was surprised again with the fact that I was going to teach almost everything again today (besides math), I had to determine what we were going to do with reading because one of our Para’s was gone today and she takes one of the reading groups, and we also had NWEA reading testing today. Not to mention I had to be flexible, give the geography test today in the morning rather than in the afternoon, and then also give a spelling test in the morning.

We went immediately down to do testing right away in the morning. Some of the questions on this test, I would have been able to answer, but I don’t think that the students knew the answers. They also had LONG reading passages and then had to answer two part questions. It was interesting to see, and even more interesting to see the scores. After that, I took all but two of the students up to the classroom to start English. The other two were still working on their tests. We learned about interrogative sentences, and then I decided that I would get the other two tests that needed to be done that morning in, and do it before they had music. We got them both done. With the geography test, only 14 of the students had to take it. Those other 6 students had AR time while the rest took the test. I had to limit them on the time, so that we could get both tests done. The thing I could have done differently with this test, is to give students a little more of a clearer set of directions. They didn’t understand at first, and a few students started the test to get it done right away rather than listen to directions. Next time I will be a little more clear, take a little more time, and then wait to hand out the test until they have heard all the directions. We then took the spelling test, and got done just in time for music.

Miss M and I then rearranged the students seating to go from pods of 4, to rows and groups of anything from 2 to 4. I helped move some of the students to places I felt they would be good in, and then was asked to make a new seating chart so that on Monday morning we could move students again to better places. I spent some time while students were having their AR time to set that up. I got it finished and made a few changes after Miss M discussed some ideas on where other students could move to make it a better way.

The day went good other than that. I watched Miss M teach about renaming to get students ready to do regrouping in subtraction. It was interesting to see how she taught it, and it is something that I have stored in my mind for when it becomes time for me to teach.

I’m excited for next week to come. I have basically every subject in the morning besides English (and some spelling), and everything in the afternoon besides Math. I am gaining it all very quickly and I am liking it!