5:5

Can’t believe today was Friday. I feel like the week just flew by. Mr. Petersen came today to watch Social and Science. There really wasn’t much that happened or went on other than that. I think the lesson went really well even though I felt as though I were batting things out of left field. I knew I was going to teach, and I knew what I was going to teach on, but I just didn’t know if I was going to do a good enough job. I think I did pretty good, knowing what I knew, and doing the different things I did. I wasn’t prepared for the students to not understand the different between urban and suburban and definitely stumbled on that during the lesson, but I think I may have pulled it off. I realized that just because I grew up by the cities, and know more of a difference between the two, as well as a rural area, doesn’t mean that everyone can understand that… not to mention they know where places like Apple Valley, Lakeville, and other suburbs are.

Mr. Petersen suggested that I find something’s to do in science for hands-on work to help students learn. This has been a hard process for me, as I find it so boring, and Miss M hasn’t given me very many thoughts or ideas, not that its her job to provide me with that, but she has given me hints on other things, just not that. Hopefully I can find something ASAP so that the students are a little more hands-on. The idea of just bringing in the roots to show them when they were learning about roots was a great idea, maybe on Wednesday of next week when we are reviewing the roots and stems and leaves I will have those available.