Last teacher inservice day. The morning started with our last normal tutoring session. The M/W kids this week became W/F kids so that we could have a full week of tutoring with the kids. T left tutoring early to set up and prepare for the inservice, so I had all the kids for the last 20 minutes. E was working on her animal book and she read it to O and V, and then O and V each took a turn reading others’ books from yesterday. They were so excited to read, since they don’t get to read very often.
Next was inservice. One man was there when I got there, and by the time we started (35 minutes after we said it started) we had three men, but one of them was a new one from previous times. Today’s inservice was a bit shorter since we had gone really over time the last two times. We spent time on Lemov’s positive framing, as well as reading comprehension and fluency. The two men who had been at previous sessions said this one was their favorite, too! They were sad that we are heading back to America “so soon” and they wanted us to stay and teach them more. They were also amazed to hear we haven’t taught in our own classrooms (for real) before; that was a nice compliment. J I wasn’t really in the mood to do the training today, but the session was extremely successful and after hearing compliments like these, it definitely made me glad I put the effort in. J
Well, nothing else was planned for the rest of the day, so we rested, right? No way! Well, that was partly due to the fact that the power went out (mid-teacher training) and was out until 5pm, and since neither of our computer’s was charged, we couldn’t do anything using electricity or technology. Instead, we made a big mess on our floor of all the papers we have left to give back to the students, making piles to take pictures of some, copies others, and give them back to the students. So we spent a few hours organizing the papers that will hopefully guide the next group that comes. We also came up with awards for the awards ceremony we’re holding on Thursday. There were some other last minute things to touch on for organization, but then some reading and chatting with Mrs. A happened before heading out for the evening.
D&D and I went to AISL for triathlon registration. My favorite part was instead of asking you what size shirt you wanted, they measured your shoulders and assigned a shirt to you. Apparently I don’t know my own t-shirt size! hahah D&D headed back to my place with me and chatted for a bit while T braided Mrs. D’s hair for the race in the morning. T and I watched a movie (surprise surprise) and caught up on some Internet since the power was back! Hurray! I tried to head to bed early because of the race tomorrow…
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