It's finally here - student teaching! It's still hard to believe that I am one short semester away from graduation. I miss my home I've made at UNI, but I am so happy that I've finally made it!
For these first 8 weeks I'm working in a 2nd-5th grade ESL classroom at Leeds Elementary school in Sioux City, Iowa. Leeds is a fairly new school, and so much bigger than I'm used to! We see about 70 ESL students on a typical day. I'm getting to know them fairly well - translation: I know all of their names 95% of the time! (Which is quite an accomplishment for me.) I did a lot of observation this week, but I will start working with groups of students and doing lessons my cooperating teacher prepared next week.
One thing I did not realize before this week was how tired I am all the time. I wake up at 6 every morning, and the last couple of nights I've fallen asleep (on the couch) around 9 . . . oops!
All for now - can't wait to see what next week brings!
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