Busy Day

Today I spent a lot of time in Mrs. Lemeris' classroom. It was good to get out of the library yet still be working on my project.

The first two hours of my day were spent in the library, however. I spent this time revising the library essay, mostly, as well as tidying up the playground and classroom essays, with which I feel comfortable. I believe these two are finished. Actually, no piece is really finished, but I mean as finished as it will be before the end of the project. I’m so glad to have two pieces behind me. I’ll be finishing the rest, which need only small tomorrow and this weekend.

I went over to the school at 10:30 to help Mrs. Lemeris during her Reading classes. I feel like I was of good assistance with her first block. Her class is creating books of their own poetry. I remember when I did that. It was an interesting step into the past. One eighth-grader, named Mike, needed to write a poem based on another poem by Robert Frost about a colt who was afraid of the snow. He had to write a poem from the colt’s perspective. I read through the Frost poem with him, and we discussed why the colt might be afraid of the snow. Mike was a good listener, and I thought he had some cool ideas. I think I helped him develop those ideas. I hope so, anyway. During that first Reading class, I also hung poetry on the walls as examples for the kids.

During the next block, my tasks were more general because none of those kids needed assistance with their poetry. They were actually already finished with all writing and revision, and they were typing it up. So I cut paper for the kids who were binding their books and got things from the supplies closet.

Then it was 12:30, so I went back to school and ate lunch. Next I went to the library and got a little bit of revision done, tidying the revisions I had made in the library essay. Then it was back to the classroom, where Mrs. Lemeris and I did some amazing revision on my essays. I look forward to doing those revisions tomorrow, my last day spent entirely on revision.