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.