Monday when I visited my placement I had a few interesting experiences....
After the third grade class finished up a couple chapters of the pirate book they are reading, they began working on their compass roses for their treasure maps. I was pretty impressed with some of the designs they created. Then the students headed down to the gym for a Veteran's Day assembly.
The assembly was really nice, especially considering I don't remember my grammar school ever doing anything like that. The whole school gathered in the gym and the principal gave a brief introduction welcoming everyone. There were members of the community and parents also attending which I thought was great to see support. Up on the wall was a projector running pictures of veterans who were relatives of students and faculty at the school. Then grade by grade the students sang a song they had been practicing in their music class. It was really cute. The sixth grade then did all the songs for each branch of the military, which lined up perfectly with the slides being projected (which were organized by army, marines, navy, etc.) Overall I thought it was great to see how patriotic the school was and all the thought that went into their assembly.
After that, I went down to the art room. There was a little mix up because I thought the art teacher was at the school that morning, but instead she was over at the middle school she also teaches at. So after everything got figured out, I drove over to the middle school to do some observation there. I got to observe two classes, each with less than ten students in each. I found those students to be a little harder to interact with because they really didn't need any help and were pretty focused on what they were doing. But still it was interesting to see how she was teaching them as compared to the third graders I typically observe and help out with.
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