I was a 'teacher' for about an hour today!!!!
I have now officially planned and taught my own lesson today.
I successfully made dictionaries fun for grade 2s. They were more pumped than I thought they would be but I guess it's all in the approach and execution of the stuff. YEAH!!!!!
The teacher said I did an excellent job. I've got another follow up assignment next week. The Chillin's need to do sheets I've chosen on the work I taught them during the week and will do more sheets with me on Tues. Then they will be graded. EEP! I am so pleased! A grade 4 teacher was in the room helping with LA and he asked when I could come and teach his class about dictionary useage because I was good and his class needed it. lol, I'll be passed around by the end of the month, I'm sure.
SO PLEASED! This just reinforces my desire to teach and makes me want to teach even more. I can do it. Now, I know that teaching an entire class all day every day for months is a whole different story but now I know that I can research and prep materials and put together a lesson plan and do it and the kids aren't confused at all at the end. they actually learned stuff from me. And, they had fun doing it.
Thanks to Bang who gave me a fun dictionary game to play with the kids; they ate it up. They were so wiggly with excitement at the thought of the game (even though they didn't know what they would be doing) they squirmed until they were almost touching my feet as I stood infront of them. Silly chillin's.
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