Assembly Time!

After well over a week, I was finally able to get back in the classroom. The previous week was congested with a PD day on the Wednesday and our MiniMicro teaching on the Friday which prevented me from being in the classroom with students. At my placement each month of the school year is given a theme. The theme for September is Respect. Today, the teachers and students celebrated select students from each classroom who for the past month had demonstrated this characteristic. After the presentation of their certificates of achievement the students were welcomed into the library for cake and coffee with their parents. The students seemed to have a good time and hopefully this will help to encourage more students to act in a similar manner. The theme for October will be Responsibility, and it will be very interesting to see how students try to demonstrate that they are responsible.

Thats all for now.
Mr. F.

My First Day!

I just finished my first day of Observations, and figured it would be a good time to make my first post. I have an incredible Grade 7 class, my associate teacher is full of wonderful ideas and talked with me for quite some time at the end of the school day. The school has several sports teams at the intermediate level, and I am thrilled that I will get a chance to help out with the one of the soccer teams. I also discovered that my associate teacher gets to teach 2 blocks of History (grade 7 and 8) which I am also very excited about. The school is small compared to what I am used to with only 300 or so students. Myself and the other 3 teacher candidates all arrived very early, and discovered that we came on picture day, which was a fun addition to the day. On a final note, until today I had never played soccer baseball in a suit, it was an interesting experience. I was quite anxious heading into the school this morning, but the staff and the students made it a pleasure and I hope to have many more days like this one.

Till next time,
Mr. F.