student teaching week fifteen

This was another shortened week for me. Monday I took half the day and went to Whitesburg to talk to a principal there, and today (friday) I've been at the pre-conference for the Celebration of Latino Children's Literature in Columbia, SC. A first-year student and I are presenting at the full conference tomorrow. My favorite session here so far has been a *fabulous* storyteller who told bilingual stories; one idea I plan to steal from her, in case any of y'all want to steal it too, is that instead of using a basket or bag or apron to hide her props till she wanted to pull them out, she used a ginormous steel bucket, which meant that she could also use that bucket to make sound effects.

I got to do my flute and stories program this week with three classes of fourth graders, which was pretty fun. They were very good listeners and asked some good questions. The first piece I did was a story from Greek mythology, and it was kinda cute that when I asked what characters they already knew, you could immediately tell who'd been reading Rick Riordan's books. :) Next week I'm going to teach all the kindergarten and first grade classes. Mary Ann's been doing Caldecotts with the kindergartens, so I'm going to pair Millions of Cats and Kitten's First Full Moon for them, and then I'm doing Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day for first, just because I love it for that age.

And we enjoyed seeing Marion on thursday!