teacher stuff

This week in practicum I got to do some teacher stuff...not so much what we look forward to doing. Wednesday was our last day before the kids spring break and it was packed full. Before everything started the kids went outside for recess and we got to stay in and work on report cards. I was able to fill in the area about attendance and all that fun stuff. While we were there in the morning our teacher got observed by the principal, a fire drill, a ribbon cutting ceremon, and a celebration of the custodians. Even though our teacher has been teaching over 30 years she still was nervous about getting observed by the principal. Both our teacher and principal are great and get along really well. Our fire drill was the typical fire drill, but instead of coming back inside we stayed outside for the ribbon cutting ceremony. There was a new pavilion built and the school celebrated their new pavilion and the main person of the job who created it. This consisted of the older grades (4th and 5th) reading poems and creating poems similar to the poem Where the Sidewalk Ends and a couple other poems about the area. After the ribbon cutting ceremony we had a celebration of the custodians. The custodians are really involved with this school...they create their own bulletin boards and they create decorations in the hall for everyone. One of the custodians actually is the coach of the robotics team at the school. Anyways, the older grades created poems and letters to the custodians and the entire school signed thank you cards made out of butcher paper and framed them for the custodians. It was a secret of the school and of course all the kids loved the idea of a secret. Needless to say the custodians were surprised! That is just in the little bit of time we are there, but it was fun.