Gina Harris

10/02/07

Another good day in forth grade. I noticed that the teachers changes the desks around on a regular basis. I also have noticed that some arrangements are better than others. We discussed that in class, but seeing it put in action makes me appreciate the importance of something as mundane as that. The kids were pretty good today during her literature read. They still walk around while she is teaching, but it doesn't seem to bother her much. I find it very distracting. Things got a little crazy as usual when dismissed to reading centers as usual. There must be some way to minimize the craziness. The teacher's aid was testing the kids out in the hallway so I was in charge of the vocab. center. "J" wore a different one of my rings today and did excellent work in the center. They had to pick five vocab. words from the story and define them and draw a picture of the word. He wrote perfect definitions and drew wonderful pictures. All the kids looked up the definitions in the back of the book, but not J. He is amazingly smart. We went to the library at the very end of the day and that went pretty well (noisey trip there, but I know it could have been worse :-)