The dreams have stopped coming regularly. I'm feeling as prepared as I can. There is nothing I feel that I can do to help me be prepared. The first day is pretty much a day to get to know the kids and build that relationship you will foster and help to grow over the year. If I really looked at everything, I would have done so much more, but I can only do so much. I already don't get paid for half of the time that I am working on school stuff after school or during the summer, to put any more time in would just be more frustrating and I would find so much more for myself to do. This year we are starting with 2 new reading programs, which brings us up to 5 programs that we are supposed to implement in 2 hours. Lunch and recesses add up to 55 minutes. Math is an hour and a half with PE and Music a half hour a day, which leaves an hour to fit in Science, Social Studies, Art, Computers, Library, the Counselor, and Writing. It doesn't seem to do justice to the outlying things that aren't currently being tested, but just wait until they are and we have to add new programs for them. Bring this up to any administrator and they will say, you must integrate the subjects together to get it all in. I look at them and ask what they might suggest and they look at me with a blank stare...it's the same stare I seem to get from my kids when I tell them that today during Reading we will be making a web map about insects (writing/activating background knowledge), reading a book about insects and while reading we will be making connections to ourselves and about how insects have families as well (reading strategies, science, social studies-families), when they are done we will create our own insects with materials I brought in (art), when all then insects are created, we will graph characteristics found on the insects that are the same (math). Then we will take the web map we made add any new information we learned to it (writing), look up more information on the computer (technology), and then type up all the information and present it in front of the class.
Friday, September 01, 2006
It's Almost Here!
The dreams have stopped coming regularly. I'm feeling as prepared as I can. There is nothing I feel that I can do to help me be prepared. The first day is pretty much a day to get to know the kids and build that relationship you will foster and help to grow over the year. If I really looked at everything, I would have done so much more, but I can only do so much. I already don't get paid for half of the time that I am working on school stuff after school or during the summer, to put any more time in would just be more frustrating and I would find so much more for myself to do. This year we are starting with 2 new reading programs, which brings us up to 5 programs that we are supposed to implement in 2 hours. Lunch and recesses add up to 55 minutes. Math is an hour and a half with PE and Music a half hour a day, which leaves an hour to fit in Science, Social Studies, Art, Computers, Library, the Counselor, and Writing. It doesn't seem to do justice to the outlying things that aren't currently being tested, but just wait until they are and we have to add new programs for them. Bring this up to any administrator and they will say, you must integrate the subjects together to get it all in. I look at them and ask what they might suggest and they look at me with a blank stare...it's the same stare I seem to get from my kids when I tell them that today during Reading we will be making a web map about insects (writing/activating background knowledge), reading a book about insects and while reading we will be making connections to ourselves and about how insects have families as well (reading strategies, science, social studies-families), when they are done we will create our own insects with materials I brought in (art), when all then insects are created, we will graph characteristics found on the insects that are the same (math). Then we will take the web map we made add any new information we learned to it (writing), look up more information on the computer (technology), and then type up all the information and present it in front of the class.
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