feeling better today

what an awesome day at school today. other then a few "Shhh, lets stay on task and work..or that's inappropriate...or seriously, is that really necessary" comments throughout the day...the kids were pretty good, and i had a great teaching day.

MC was away so there was a supply for her. Surprisingly it wasn't someone they normally call in, maybe because there were like 7 teachers away. Anyhow, the supply came in pretty early so we got to know each other before the kids got in. She was super nice...she didn't care that MC had essentially told her that I would be taking the lead since i had the math and science lessons already planned. The supply just let me do my thing and she helped circulate the class to help some of the kids out during their work, but i essentially was in control the entire morning. It was like i had a student teacher...hahaha. But it felt good, the kids listened, they did their work. It was a moment...you know the "yes, i'm meant to teach...or the so that's what it feels like to be a teacher" moments. The supply even said that she couldn't believe i was only in my 2nd week of my block...she said your management skills are fantastic and if only some of the teachers she knew was half as confident as I was today. Boy..was that a complete confident *cough* ego *cough* boost!

It's always nice to here something like that...especially when i'm about to be assessed by my faculty advisor.

Anyhow I had my double drama period with my 4/5's in the afternoon. This was such an awesome lesson. I really had a good time doing it. The kids loved the warm-up game we played - "Honey I love you, won't you give me a smile" - ever played it?? I've done it with kids at camp and my methods prof also used it in his class as part of the tribes stuff he does. So the point was to get the kids to try and not laugh. Many of them had a hard time staying in role from last week's drama class, some even told me in their reflection that was what they wanted to work on so that their performance would be better. So i tried this game with them, I had the class split up in two and we played it for about 7-8 minutes. I knew many of them would laugh but it was a great exercise and they loved it, i couldn't get them to stop saying the line for the rest of the class. Many told me that was their favourite part of the lesson...so nice to hear that! Then we did role-playing with a script..emphasis this time on oral fluency, projection and being able to add expression using what they got (gestures, voice..no props). Kids whined about it b/c it was "boring" but oh well, i'm the teacher...what i say goes...lol! Oh and they whined about their groups again. I made the groups up and assigned their roles only because the scripts i used were leveled reading so i tried to accomodate some of my IEP kids.

anyhow...it was a good day and maybe i am cut out to be a teacher afterall....yes i know a complete 360 from last night...

i need to go to bed