My Thursdays and Fridays are usually pretty good. These are the days that I teach my grade 3-5 class and everything with them is VERY routine. The teacher who teaches them Mon-Wed has been around for a few years now and she has very strict day plan that I can't really deviate from (she hasn't said that I can't, in fact she says I can do whatever I like). The students are so used to her schedule that whenever I try to do something out of the ordinary they are up in arms (except when I extend their gym time....weird)! I am trying to gradually do more and more hands-on things with them. I am struggling with this class, not because they are difficult to manage, but because I am not used to teaching this age group. I don't have any resources for this age, the class doesn't have any textbooks, and I live in a village with no book stores! I am definitely learning on my feet. Everyone is very willing to help, but I know that they are busy too and I hate to make more work for people.
The teacher that I share the class with did give me a great project to do that touched on the solar system for our science unit and worked well for art (however, I am still working on the assessment piece). The pictures are below, it turned out fabulous! *Please note that one is all gold....by the end of the class every student had gold painted hands and there was gold paint EVERYWHERE ("I love goooolllllddddd" - Austin Powers Goldmember).
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