Week 2 Post

This week has been an interesting one. In my eight weeks at Suncrest I've become comfortable with my class but haven't had many times where I've gone home fully excited about my day. Now I've had many days where I leave thinking it was a good day and saw improvement, but I hardly ever leave feeling excited about a part/the whole day. On Tuesday my social studies class read a book and discussed Pearl Harbor (this was Mr. Steel's class, so they have SS on TR so we were unable to discuss Pearl Harbor on it's actual day-Monday). Nevertheless we went through the book. Now the day before I read the book with my class during social studies. I completed all areas of the book-the reading of, discussion, etc in about twenty minutes. So going into Tuesday's class I had a couple other activities planned that we ultimately never got near! It was great reading the book because any time I turned a page, paused, or coughed I was bombarded with a ton of questions all relating to Pearl Harbor. I was lucky if I could read and turn a page in five minutes. Students were asking questions left and right; when I was reading, when I wasn't reading, when another student finished their question, and so on. And to be totally honest I loved every second of it! It was awesome seeing these kids take a legitimate interest in this topic and want to know more about it. Now kids can ask some pretty silly questions and say some pretty interesting things that don't relate to the topic whatsoever. However, these "peeps" were on fire! The questions they asked were engaging and showed they wanted to know everything there was for it. Like I said before, I loved every second of it. This is one of the reasons I wanted to teach-to have these kind of days where my students want to learn at all costs. Just being able to furthur their knowledge and more likely their curiosity made my week...and then some! I know that I'll have these experiences in the future but it was great to have one this week. I've been frustrated with the lack of drive and interest my class as a whole shows and I was definitely getting down about it. What a great thing to bring my hope back up.