Ready... Set... TEACH!!

Ready, Set, Teach! (From now on... RST), is definitely the most amazing class I have EVER been in! Everyday for 2nd and 3rd period I get to sit in a classroom that is decorated like an elementary classroom and learn how to be a teacher! We actually got to start doing teacher-type-stuff last week. We made a lesson plan, and taught a lesson to the class! My lesson was on symmetry, so I started off by reading "It Looked Like Spilt Milk", then teaching the children (aka... 12 juniors and seniors) how to tell if a shape has symmetry by folding it in half. So... I had di-cutted out a square, rectangle, and triangle for everybody to fold and see how many lines of symmetry they had. After that each kid got 2 dicuts of capital letters of the alphabet, and had to determine if those to shapes were symmetrical. Then the letters were called up to the board, and were sorted between having symmetry, and not having symmetry! In the end, I made two "Spilt Milk" shapes and had 2 people show me where they would be symmetrical. It was SO much fun!!!

On Monday we learned about bulletin boards, and so we had to design our own "mini-bulletin-board". Mine was SO cute! It said "Sailing off into Second Grade" with sailboats and tissue paper. Then on the sailboats it said what subjects the students would be learning this year! It was adorable :)



There is only one problem. I would MUCH rather look at cute ideas for bulletin boards, or be creative experimenting with tissue paper to make boards, think of cute lessons, gape at all of my mom's children books that I used to make fun of, or just think of fun ideas for teaching than do my other homework.. for example CALCULUS, or reading for English! GAH!

I can't wait to go to Millsap on October 5th and start teaching in my Kindergarten class! It's SO exciting!!!!

**There Mary Kathryn... I blogged :P**