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Riggs 4th grade classroom. She was super nice and made me feel welcome in her classroom. The students are great! Since it was my first day I simply observed and tried to learn the children’s names. **
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 * 9/21/09- Today was my first day of my clinical. I was placed at Kellogg Elementary, in Mrs.

** 9/22/09-9/24/09- The past few days I have just been helping out and observing their reading routine. Mrs. Riggs wants me to do an activity with the students tomorrow and just ease into taking over the reading portion. I am glad that she is just letting me gradually move into teaching the reading; instead of doing it all at once. **


 * 9/25/09- Today went great, even though I didn’t get to do my Earth composition activity. I got to teach Friday enrichment lesson. It was on the Solar System. The students were very attentive which was awesome. After, we read the story about the Solar System, we took the students outside to distinguish and scale the Solar System. The students loved this and it gave them a visual of how far the planets are from each other. **

10/5/09-10/9/09- This was a short week due to ISE day. However, I still went in on Monday to collaborate plans with my teacher. We got to talk and I got a better idea of what she wanted me to cover with the students. **
 * 9/28/09-10/02/09- Mrs. Riggs let me teach whole group this week. I was a little nervous at first, but now I am comfortable. The students enjoyed the story, “Mighty Jackie”. It was a baseball story, so most of the boys were all about it. Vocabulary baseball was a big hit. I will use this game in my own classroom! I need to get materials for baseball bulletin board. I need to work on my pacing for next week. I had trouble with transitioning to another topic. **
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