My second first day as an intern

My first week as an intern was awesome. When I first met Mrs. Kimbrell who is my 1st grade mentor, she was very sweet and was excited about me being in her classroom for the rest of the school year. Walking into a classroom again for the second year felt really good because I had absolutely loved working with my students last year and I'm lucky to be at Holiday Heights again. The difference from last year to this year is with second graders, they were able to understand more complex concepts and they began to read chapter books and higher level books with the understanding of what they read. The teacher refused to let them check out little kid books because they would not learn anything from them. This year in my first grade classroom, the reading that they are doing are thing books and they have more pictures in them. They do not have as much knowledge on how to read bigger books because they are still learning words and how to pronounce them and understand what they mean. First graders are still learning the difference between capital and lowercase letters and how to write them and how to put the sounds together to create a word. Working with a lower grade is much more fun because they have more learning to do compared to a higher grade level where they are just learning what the TEKS say they have to learn. When I walk into Holiday Heights, I walk out to the playground to sit with Mrs. Kimbrell while the kids are playing and after 5 minutes, we walk back into the classroom to do reading and writing and when it's time for me to leave, they are headed o specials.

Megan's end of year video

Habits of mind presentation

Final exam for semester 1

Here is a link to my semester exam smore

My teacher created material

My teacher created material was creating clocks with a set of times that all different. The rules of the activity is to give each student at a table the same color clock and give them a time also. The teacher will tell the student if they were correct or if they are wrong. After 5 minutes the table will switch the times with another table and that will happen 5 times. This activity will help the student understand how to tell time on a non digital clock and have a better understanding on how time works.

First day as an intern

My first day as an intern was a really exciting experience for me. The students were all so sweet and excited to hear that I was going to coming into their class every week to help out. My mentor teacher was also really sweet and was very supportive of my dream to wanting to be a future teacher. When I was presenting my poster, both my teacher and class were really surprised that I was a former student of Holiday Heights Elementary. I really love being an intern and hope that all the days I go their will be as successful as my first day their.

What would you do?

In scenario 3, if my mentor teacher had a substitute, I would introduce myself and tell them why I am in that classroom. If they told me that they had everything under control, I would go to another another teachers classroom and ask them if they would like me to help in their class and if they did not then I would go to the library and search for books to check out that I could use in my class.