Last Day of Student Teaching

Sadly it is the last day of student teaching. It is such a bittersweet feeling. I feel excited that I had this opportunity to work in such a fantastic district where I felt I learned and grew SO much! I learned how to personalize learning, meet the needs of all of my students, how to be firm, strict, being consistent, I learned how to be creative with my lessons, learned community circles and how to build a community in my classroom. I truly could go on and on!!! I had such an incredible experience and built strong relationships with my students. I really loved each and every student so saying goodbye was the hardest thing :( I was definitely very sad, hugging each of them made me tear up. But like I said I had a GREAT experience and learned SO much! :) I feel this experience has prepared me and made me into a stronger and more confident educator :) I cannot wait for my own classroom someday :) 

Warm Up Questions and Tribes

Each and every morning I create a questions for my students to write down in their notebook. At this same time I check assignment notebooks for signatures and notes from parents. 

I found this activity while reading my cooperating teachers book about tribes and building a community. Each morning I find a question that all students should be able to share (my students LOVE this). It is a GREAT way for students to connect with one another and learn that we all have things in common yet were all unique. Or it is another great way to learn something new about someone in class. I do questions like "What do you like to do when it rains?" "I am bigger than?" "I am smaller than?" "My favorite place is....." and so on. You can be very creative and again students love these activities :)