Internship #11

Week Summary
Randy

My week was filled with new experiences, highlights, challenges, and memories, being that I had switched teachers, and started new projects. Although it started off with a sad day of leaving Mrs. Songer, Mrs. Thein, and their adorable students behind, I experience something extremely memorable. The first grade kids made me a book saying all kinds of nice things about me, with pictures and everything, kind of like a good-bye gift. It was adorable and this was definitely one of the highlights of my week because I felt like I actually touched the lives of these kids. One girl, Sabrina, wrote "You are the best helper you are also the best teacher's assistant. Thank you for visiting out classroom." This book made me feel extremely accomplished. The next day I switched over to Ms. Frans' second grade class, and Mrs. Huff's fourth grade class. I also began to work for Mrs. Fisk, the community relations employee, and Mrs. Wambaugh, the advertising employee. I divided up time to be with each evenly, which was a big challenge. I had to fit the schedules of four different people, so it ended up being that I had more time in the classrooms which I like a little more. Another challenge I had with helping out four different people is that now I have three different projects going on at the same time and I'm struggling to do them all, but now have a lot planned out. I am just scared for how crazy next week will be, but I'll get a lot of work done this weekend. Anyways, the rest of my week was me observing the students and coming up with a project for the fourth graders, while also planning out and working on my other two projects. Some highlights from this are that I think I can up with a really cool project for the 4th graders and am excited to see how it goes. I then ended the week with my mentor interview which was memorable and a highlight because I learned so much that I didn't know about her. The interview made me realize that if you know what you want, you can achieve it. Overall, my week had some challenges but I'm happy with the outcome of events.