what we've been up to

Well today, my 4th grade friends took their writing TAKS test. I am so glad that it is now over with. Since I am not a certified teacher yet, I could not even be in the room so I spent the day in first grade. I love first grade, but after being with the older kids for the past month, it was totally different. I had to remember that they need to hear the directions 10,000 times and that you have to hold their hand a lot. The teacher that I was paired with for today, even let me teach the grammar lesson. We were learning about adjectives, so I decided to have students partner up and make an adjective flower for the adjective garden. We put our nouns in the middle, and then put adjectives describing our noun on the petals. I wish I had gotten a picture of the entire garden, but I did get one of my flower that I made as an example. 

With my 4th graders yesterday, we did a day of language fun. Mrs. I and I created a packet of fun review pages and we also talked some about idioms. I had them choose a few to illustrate for their Idiom book. Here are a few examples including mine. 

Tomorrow starts my 6 weeks of full teaching. I am a little nervous, but so excited all at the same time. I hope that the students like the changes that I have made. I am most excited about my plans for Social Studies. I promise to share as it comes up.