Week 8 Post

Well, this week was the first week back to Suncrest Primary. I must admit I wasn't all that excited at the beginning of the week-sad about leaving Clay Battelle and apprehensive about the big age difference. However, as the week has progressed I have slowly begun to warm up (again) to this teaching thing.
This was a week where I'd be doing nothing but observations for my Action Research-what are the students like? who are the trouble makers? what is the genereal classroom environment like? etc. etc. As a whole, I am thoroughly impressed with this set of third graders (both classes). On Monday or Tuesday I told Mrs. McLaughlin that I thought the classroom was TOO quiet which is kind of hard to believe. These students are well behaved, well trained, and very polite which is a bit of a difference compared to Clay Battelle.
As the week progressed, however, I begun to help lead and teach some of the daily work and classes. As I got into it I became more and more comfortable with myself, with the age group of students, and the students themselves. I was wondering how long the transition would be for the two different age groups. It is nowhere near complete but I'm happily suprised with how well week 1 went as a whole.
I'm very much looking forward to the next seven weeks for many reasons. I'm real excited to have students for the whole day-relationships with these students will be completely different than the relationships that I had with my students that I had for only one or two periods. Another benefit to these upcoming eight weeks is to see how comfortable I am with elementary school. Before teaching at Clay Battelle I had only worked with K-3 students in a school setting. My time at Clay Battelle was great because it gave me experience with the older students as well as the desire to work with them in an educational environment. These next seven weeks will hopefully be a reminder of how much I enjoy working with younger students as well as the older students.
I look forward to these next eight weeks!