My weekly reflection is so late because my weekend was very full and slightly overwhelming. Most of my weekend was consumed by walking and our new puppy! Nine years ago my mum and three of her friends started a Breast Cancer walk called Just ‘Cause (http://www.healinggarden.net/?topic=justcause), the money raised gets split between the Virginia Thurston Healing Garden in Harvard, MA(http://www.healinggarden.net/) and the Gillet Center for Breast Cancer at Mass General. This is the first year that I have had the opportunity to take part in the walk. I only walked one of the days but 20 miles in one day is still a lot. My weekend of walk activities started off right after school on Friday, my mum came and got me and we went and meet up with the walkers for lunch, after lunch I spent some time with my mum before she drooped me off and then I got ready for my day of walking. Saturday was long but totally worth it. When I got home on saturday my dad was waiting with our new puppy, Tukkaa! His is 8 weeks old and lots of fun!
Last week at Carroll I continued to learn lots about Teaching, I was given my first opportunity to work one on one with a student for a hole block while he pained a picture of dawn because he had missed the class when the rest of the class did the painting. This was such a wonderful opportunity, it was fun to see how differently a student behaves when they are on their own and separated from class mates. I also learned that taking students on a field trip is a lot of work and can be very tiering. I loved all of the activities I did the week, I got to experience all sorts of things witch was really fun. This week I got to help with more of the out side of the classroom things, I have been wrighting up the schedule each morning and helping with things like cutting out fraction pieces. Through this I have learned just how much extra work goes into being a teacher past being in the classroom. The thing that I have enjoyed the most this week is know the boys, last week I was just figuring them out but this past week I have been able to see each of their personalities. Everything this week happened as expected but that is one of the nice things about helping in a classroom, everything is scheduled and you can look to a peice of paper to see what you are going to do next. The field trip was the same way but it came with a few surprises, the big one was that the lunches did not get delivered on time so kids that order lunches that day did not eat until 45 min after the rest of the kids. I am benefiting from everything I have been doing, all of this is such a wonderful learning experience for me.
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