Confusion.

Have you ever seen the look of confusion on a second grader’s face? Have you ever seen 17 of those looks at once? I have (Mean girls reference anyone?)! Today, we started Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) and my rockstar teacher also began teaching math again. Which means that she taught for most of today. Testing this morning was okay for the kids because really, I’m not sure that I’m comfortable (or even allowed to be) proctoring a standardized test and it wasn’t a lesson. But this afternoon, we came back from art and the kids were all looking back and forth between my teacher and myself. They couldn’t decide what was happening because I wasn’t in the front of the room ready to teach like normal. It was so stinking cute. And sad. I’m giving subjects back already for goodness sakes!

The first subject to go is math. Math first because we are just getting into money and time. While I’m comfortable teaching money and time, the requirements between our math book and our standards do not align. I would rather give math back now than chance wasting important learning time on a subject and standards that I’m not totally comfortable teaching. So there’s that. Over the next 12 days (that’s all I have left!). I will begin giving back science, religion, spelling, reading, and journaling (probably in that order). And then, (November 25^th) I will have my final student teacher evaluation meeting, my electronic portfolio (complete with written examples of my work, a video clip, a final reflection on student teaching, and my own (5 PAGE) philosophy of education) will be complete, and November 27^th will be my LAST DAY.

Craziness. I can remember the day that I sat at my desk (in the back corner of the room, behind a shelf haha) and realized, oh crap. I’m doing this all semester. The whole time. Every. Single. Day. (That was a scary thought.) And now looking back… it all went so fast. Wahh.

I will keep you updated on how I feel about all this being done with teaching stuff… although really, this is only the beginning. :) Kinda cool actually!

Now speaking of math, I totally forgot that I had taken a picture of this gem from last week's math test. The question was to answer with position (using an ordinal number). Here's the result. 

I almost wanted to give it to him. 

Until tomorrow…

Peace, love, and crafty answers, 

Jayna