Throughout this placement, I found my self getting so excited as I planned my lessons because I knew that my kids would enjoy whatever I had planned. There are always good days and bad days in school, but in my case, with these kids, the good days profoundly outweigh the bad. So much good in fact, I feel the need to share some of my favorite moments with you.
I have one student who loves to use the carpet sweeper and he is always the first one to ask if he can sweep the room. One day, after he had swept the classroom once in the morning and again in the afternoon, he asked if he could offer to sweep the other 6th grade intern's classroom. She later told me that he was silent the entire time he cleaned except for when he said, "Oooops..." She asked what was wrong and he replied, "Uhhh, I think I just sucked up a bracelet." It was absolutely one of those you-had-to-be-there moments, but we thought it was hilarious.
When teaching adjectives, I had my kids cut out adjectives they felt described them from magazines and glue them to construction paper. They were to write in other words to make a poem. My favorite line from one of the poems was from a girl who wrote, "Also, I'm the bomb. Ask anyone. I rock more than those icky Jonas Brothers!"
On the day of my first observation by my supervisor, a few of my kids were acting out a short skit during English because we were talking about how to write scripts. Before the class, one of the girls came up to me and said, "Mrs. Wilson, we are going to read with lots of expression because we want her to know that you are a good teacher!" I wanted to cry because it was so sweet.
Of all of the wonderful moments, my favorites were always those moments when I'm teaching and my kids have that "AH HA!" moment. The moment they finally understand what I am teaching them.
