Tuesday April 24 2007

Today I was in the first Jk class, my first job was to take out the book orders. first i removed them from the book then I seperated, stamped the date, wrote their names and stapled the different book order booklets together. This was very time consuming since there was so many different things I had to do. Monday the class made symmetrical butterflies with paint, two students were away and it was my job to help them make theirs. So i let them choose which paint they wanted and on one side they painted and then folded it together. They were excited to make them since they all love using paint.

After another student who was away last week missed when the class made a colored symmetrical butterflie, so for this one he had to color and glue on buttons. Then i had to cut up magnets and glue them on the back of a Spring art the class made last week so that we can put them up on the black board.

While I was doing this the rest of the class had to seperate their piece of paper into four squares and in each draw what a plant needs; example water, sun, soil and wind. Most of the students needed help with spelling so i got to help them before i started my next task. Then after the students were done with seat work they got to have play time and one at a time i got to pull the students aside to start their Mother's day art. It is a Mother's day poem and at the top is blank so that they can place their hand print. It was my job to paint their hand and make sure they were placing their hands in the right spot. They really enjoyed this, again because it involved paint. I only had about 15 minutes to do this so i only got through 9 students but it was not a problem since i have next week to finish.

After the break i was back in Mrs. MacDonlads class. The teacher had to explain what they had to do in their money workbooks, they have to write what coin was in the picture and how much it is worth. Most of the students had problems with this so i went around and helped them out. When the class was done they had to go read a book then do show and share, One of the students was behind on his work so i sat with him and helped him finsih. Then it was home time and i stacked the chairs and got the class ready for home time.