Whacky Wednesdays! * :) [FT3]

This Wednesday, February 23, 2011, I went on my third trip to the middle school. When I first got there, Jeff was called down by Ms. Ryan and ran some errands for her. After that, Mrs. Lee, who was Ms. Mosinsky when I was in her gym class, allowed me to sit in the gym and watch her class for the beginning of her last gym class of the day. I wanted to see the children interact with each other on a more “laid back” environment. I didn’t get the chance to actually see them participating in the activity because they were so talkative. I did see though that the students were very easily distracted by each other and once one started talking, the rest of them joined in. It became a bit annoying, but I remembered going through the same exact thing with my classmates. I almost wanted to apologize to the teachers for the many times that I joined in on these unnecessary conversations during times when the class could’ve been doing something more productive. The teachers were, and still are, very patient. My patience is definitely one thing that I will need to work on when working with children. Around 2:15, I made my way to the Middle School cafeteria with the second group of “Leading Ladies”. This group of girls, like the first group, was working on a skit for the fifth graders. Their theme was “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” It took Group Two, as I like to call them, a little longer than the first group to get their ideas flowing. They got sidetracked more than once and their topics often led to other topics and started new conversations. They took the entire half an hour to reach a unanimous decision to just one idea. Ms. Ryan is going to try to have a teacher agree to letting me sit in one of their classes next Wednesday and observe. I’m looking forward to this visit and I’m very excited to see what happens next.