"HI MISS B!"

When I walked in the building of the school I saw three girls from the second grade class I was getting ready to teach. They all got really excited and ran over and gave me a hug. I told them that I was going to be teaching their class today, and they all got really happy. That was defiantly a great way to start off my day, and give me a little extra confidence booster. I hope the girls had a fun time in my class and think that I am a good teacher.
There is defiantly a big difference between a 25 minute class period, and a 45 minute class period. The first class of the day went really well. I had fun, and I think the students were having a good time. I had them working together on teamwork skills, and they all really cooperated and worked together. Some of the tasks seemed so simplistic, but the students had a blast and they were moving the whole time. Throughout the class period they worked by themselves, in pairs, in small groups, in half the class, and in boys verse girls. I liked the variety that was provided with my different activities.
My classes were back to back today. Thanks to my allergies, I was about to die by the end of the first class. My voice was just about shot, but I got a quick drink of water right as the second class was entering the gym. Oh boy was I in for a treat. The activities I planned had very minimal and simple instruction, however I needed about 20 seconds of quite in order to explain. I am pretty sure I got about .000037648 seconds of quite the whole class period. The students were in no mood to be quite and listen. I stood there, waiting. Finally, a boy in the class got frustrated with his peers and put up two fingers. YAY, something I can work with. After the knowledge that two fingers meant shut up, it was much easier to get things accomplished. I survived through the first few activities just fine. When we got to the HoopDrop, which was supposed to last about maybe five minutes, I think it took about 10. They were supposed to be quite after they picked their hoops back up, but they just could not do it. Students find this game fun, anticipating me to yell “Drop It”. However it ended up being a punishment because they could not get quite. Finally, they were kind of quite and I instructed them to put their hoops down on the floor and stand like statures. With in the next 2 minutes, I took away 5 hula hoops of students that could not grasp the concept of statues. I took three pieces of equipment away from one boy throughout the class period. I was ready to sit him out, but the look in his eye, I knew he was not going to get up quickly and move. I felt like I did not have time to fight with one student, when the rest of the class was trying to pay attention. Taking his equipment away worked, but I had to take everything away once, for him to realize that he needed to behave. He was slightly exhausting, and I know by the end of the period he hated my guts. Oh well, that is the way it will be sometimes I suppose. His class did not even get to do the last activity that the first class did, because there was so much management time. Great, now my time analysis paper looks horrible because I constantly had to stop and wait for them to shut it. It is so hard when I do not know their names. Scolding a student using their name has so much more impact than me scolding, and then the student finally realizing I am talking to them
All day long, the grades had one good and one bad class. My nerves level this week was much lower. My confidence is growing, slowly… but growing. I liked teaching the first two classes and then being done. I think that helped with my nerves, not sitting there thinking about it all day long. Next week I teach the last two classes of the day. We will see how that goes.