Day 4

Yet again, I had a wonderful day.  I hope this continues to be the trend!!  I led the morning discussion again today, which is always fun because I love hearing the things the students have to say.  Then, I read them a story called "Leo the Lightning Bug".  It was a cute story, and we were able to learn valuable life lessons from the story.  Leo couldn't get his lightning bug light to light up, and the other lightning bugs made fun of him.  He tried and tried, and finally just before he was going to give up, his light lit up.  So, we discussed with our partners a time when we had to try really hard to accomplish something and how it felt once we did it.  Then we shared with the large group =)  (Do I sound like a teacher yet??)

So far, I've been able to share cute/funny things that students have said to me each day.  Today, a student said something quite entertaining, but not so cute.  He came up to me, and said "Is it just me, or do you look fatter today?" he wasn't trying to joke around, he was dead serious.  So, I just said "I'm not sure" and he proceeded to say, while demonstrating size with his hands, "well normally you look about this fat, but today you look thiiis fat." So then I just told him he needed to pay attention. haha  I wasn't offended, knowing that children don't really understand how things sound sometimes, so I just laughed it off.  Silly kids!

This afternoon, I led our science lesson for the first time.  Science is what I would consider my weakness, I was never a big fan.  Granted, they aren't doing anything too difficult (today we planted seeds in little cups), but I was still nervous.  I asked my cooperating teacher throughout the week how she normally would do an activity like this, but she didn't give me a whole lot of detail.  She just kept telling me to do it however I wanted, so I knew she didn't want me to do exactly what she does.  It was a little scary, but I survived.  Seeds are planted, journals are decorated, and it wasn't a complete disaster!  I know there are things I can do differently next time, but for my first full lesson, it was okay. =)