Mini Residency

Crazy way to start your mini residency..having no school for 3 days and then a nice long holiday weekend. Due to school closure, my mentor and I decided to meet at Shaw and prepare for my mini-residency. We were at school for about 3 hours prepping the classroom, drawing up lesson plans, and deciding what assessments we wanted to do focus on and plan for our field trip.

Overall my mini residency went very AWESOME! Cheri was in and out of the classroom and she said that I have finally got the flow of the school day down. The only thing that I feel I need to work on is clarifying my math lessons. Math Expression doesn't always connect from one lesson to the next as well as the worksheets that we do in class so I am trying to master that. I feel relaxed and not stressed wondering what I am doing right or wrong.

On Wednesday we had a VERY full day. We had the Alaska Children's Choir perform at our school at 9:25a.m., then boarding a bus and leaving school at 10:30a.m.. We arrived at the PAC at 12:00 and enjoyed Click Clack Moo! Such a cute performance and the students really got into the play. Then we were back on buses and at the school at 2:30.

We also had AIMS web testing throughout the week so we had a few interruptions throughout the school day but we managed.

We also started doing some fun holiday craft and the students worked on their fine motor skills.

Thanksgiving celebrations

I realized that having that week off from school I hadn't posted. The week of November 15-19 we had some great Thanksgiving projects. I had the opportunity to make a trash can turkey which was DELICIOUS! You get some tin foil find put it on the hard ground, put a metal post in the center. Open up four cans of chicken broth around the fork, put the turkey through the fork and then place a metal trash can over it. (I forgot you have to dig a little hold under the foil to put coals.) You let the turkey cook for about 2-3 hours and you have the best turkey!

The kids had such a blast observing and watching the process for one of the centers that day. We accidentally set off the fire alarm so we were able to get November's fire drill out of the way! hehe Having us go in and out of the custodial doors to observe and check on it with the cold air coming in set off the sensor even though we were over a 100 yards away.

We made a very sweet turkey and the kids were very HAPPY thankful!

We also made little Indians and pilgrims. They turned out so cute!

We had them take a feather home and decorate it with things that their families enjoy and what they are thankful and we made a big family turkey on a bulletin board!

I am so very THANKFUL for my students and great staff to work with!