This week at University I feel like I had one of the most productive days that I've had yet. Usually when it is my time to be in the classroom, my students are in their specials, and based off of what I witnessed last week, I am no longer going to observe their specials time simply because it makes me really upset to watch. So, I helped the teacher along with Tabitha and Adrian to grade the post-assessment on context clues. It was actually really interesting to see how students would select different words in the context to define the words that they didn't know, although it was also kind of disheartening because most of the students seemed like they were really struggling. Most of them were getting only about half of their answers correct, or maybe just a little more than half, but the scores were still very, very low.
When the students finally did come back into the classroom we had the opportunity to work with our kidwatching kid on a sketch-to-stretch activity which really helped me to get my kid a lot better. As it turns out, my kid is quite the artist and is also very good at articulating her thoughts. That's really been my first good conversation with her because I haven't had a lot of time with her.
Finally, the thing that's upsetting to me is now that we've figured out the best way to remedy the schedule issue with the specials thing, my teacher is going on leave for three weeks because of surgery. I feel like I'm really not quite getting all of the experiences that I was hoping to with the students or with the curriculum. I just want to have a part in the classroom! I am not a good by-stander.
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