Week 15: January 12th-13th

     

    Thursday, January 12th

➽"It's like pulling teeth"

    I was working with a student in subtraction today. She uses counter chips for tough equations (which, for her, is the majority of the problems). While I understand these problems can be tedious, it took everything in me to keep my cool with her shenanigans. She would purposefully drop chips onto the ground as an excuse to get away from the problem, or lay down in her chair. It makes me have to be the bad guy, sternly telling her that she has to work. The worst part is that she says after almost every problem that she's bored. 

    When I work with students, we go out into the hall. As I came back in, Mrs. Carlson said, "It's just like pulling teeth, isn't it?" Quite the accurate statement.


    Friday, January 13th

➽Room organization

    There wasn't anything for the students to do today, so they changed the seating chart. Typically when teachers do a seating chart, they'll make it on their computer and direct students where to go. However, this class has desks- with all their personal belongings inside. The teacher would call them up one at a time, and they would scoot their desks to a new table. Afterwards, they cleaned everything out. It was such a Friday moment that I know they'll look back on in middle school, remembering the "good old days". Everybody was smiling and the room was a bustle of activity.



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