The Life of a First Grade Teacher

 Wow! What a week! I would give this week a 4 1/2. If I had all of my edTPA completed, I would have given it a 5. This week started with me being observed by my principal on Monday morning. She came in the last 15 minutes of Letterland and stayed for my writing lesson. I know YIKES! Writing is not my strong point to teach and this lesson was poetry. I will have to admit it was stressful. Teaching poetry to 1st graders. I had my post-ob Wednesday morning. She said the lesson was great and the kiddos were very engaged. That was a load off.  The sun finally decided to show her face and my kiddos got to go outside and run around. We all needed that. Then on Thursday afternoon, I got my first dose of the vaccine. I feel as if a weight has been lifted. I am at a good point with my edTPA. Just cleaning up some Tasks. My goal is to have everything reviewed one last time and backed up by Sunday night. Then, I just have to wait until Thursday afternoon to submit. I feel like I am in a g...

 As I look back on this week, I would rate it as a 4. The week started off with a work day on Monday for President's Day. Tuesday saw a return of students to the building as we went from virtual to in person learning. We are in Plan B. This means that I have 8 students in class on Monday and Tuesday and 7 in class on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday will remain an asynchronous. Our system will remain in this plan through the rest of the school year unless there is an increase in positive cases.  We were out of school on Thursday due to icy conditions. So, I have only had my kiddos in class for 2 days. Hopefully, next week we will get back into a good groove. It was great to see all of their smiling faces. They were so excited to be back in school.  I love my kiddos! Unfortunately, the only assessment that I gave my students this week was from the re-engagement lesson I taught for Task 4 and a quick check in to see how my students understand addition of numbers up to 12....

 This has been another busy week. I would rate this week as a 4. I was able to get a lot accomplished in my classroom. My team and I have our plans outlined for the next couple of weeks. This weekend I have plans to finish my Task 1 and 2. Our district literacy coach has said that she will read over my Tasks for me. I am grateful for another pair of eyes. I finished teaching my lesson for Task 4 and I am now prepared to do my re-engagement lesson next week. Our district math coach meet with my on Friday and she liked the plans that I have for the lesson.  I plan to teach this on Tuesday as we are out of school Monday for President's Day.  Originally, I was planning to do the re-engagement lesson last Thursday but due to a district wide loss of internet, I was put a day behind. That was the excitement of the week, when on Monday just as I began literacy the internet went out. I quickly sent a Dojo message to my parents from my phone to explain and have them stop the Zoom. ...

 February 5, 2021 What a week! I would rank this a 3 1/2. I recorded my lessons this week for edTPA. They went OK considering that I had to do them via Zoom. My kids are first graders so they have a hard time seating still while on Zoom. They stayed engaged just full of energy. We had a staff meeting to talk about how we are going to come back to face to face instruction. I am hoping that we move into a hybrid plan. That is the recommendation from our superintendent. Cohort A would go Monday and Tuesday and Cohort B would go Wednesday and Thursday with Fridays being remote learning day for all students. I would feel more comfortable if we were vaccinated first I guess that will have to wait until the next group. I completed DESSA on my student this week. Now, I have to begin progress reports that will be released next Thursday. Since we are all virtual, I have decided to record individual progress reports on each of my students. We were given the option of recording them or complet...