...rainin' on Friday...

What a Friday! The day started off alright. It was particularly warm and I remember thinking to myself that the kids were going to ROAST in our classroom. If you look at the pictures of my class, they were taken right outside of our classroom. Each building like ours houses 2 classes of 26 or so students. Each building is connected by outdoor hallways.

The kids were okay to start, a bit more down than usual. Because we had an issue with spelling last week (when the students were asked to exchange papers to correct, several of the students cheated and changed their friends' answers to the right answers while others changed their paper's answers so they would get them wrong!) I was a bit more strict during the test this week. The students were not allowed to have anything but a pencil on their desks during it. Once the test was over they were to put that pencil and any rubbers they had away. I warned them that if I saw one I planned to take their paper and give them a score of 0 for cheating. The students then had to correct their own papers in colored pencil, that way I could be assured that they were not squeezing in needed letters. It worked :)

I did feel a bit bad though because I overheard a student say, "You better stop doing that or Miss Cowan will write you a pink ticket!" today. I've become THAT teacher! Miss Wright said I should be pleased with this comment, but I can't help but feel bad.

While the kids were eating before swimming I introduced the kids to the game of tic-tac-toe. They said that they called it knots and crosses in Australia. Needless to say we had several competitions throughout the day, which the kids thoroughly enjoyed.

The combination of crabby tired kids, Friday, swimming lessons, and an indoors rainy lunch time simply DOES NOT mix, which made for a long afternoon. Unfortunately we did not get much accomplished due to the students' attitudes. Hopefully this weekend does them some good!

I've gotten off to a good start on my final presentation. My teaching grade is dependent on 4 weekly journal entries and 1 major final presentation. Next week we are required to present on Thursday to our cooperating teachers and other M.E.S.S. staff, as well as on Friday to some MSU staff, QUT staff, and the principal of M.E.S.S.! Needless to say, I think it is very important to make it a FANTASTIC presentation! I'll be sure to let you know how it goes!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful fiance today! :) He's a whoppin' 22!! I'd best be off, Tina, Trevor and I are going to Nan & Pops for supper tonight... and also to play some cards. Hopefully I'm better this time around!

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cowane1 on September 10, 2010 from Morayfield, Australia

from the travel blog: Australian Adventures!

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