student teaching week fourteen

Arbuthnot tomorrow!

This week we had inservice on monday, mostly normal day on tuesday, and started TCAPs wednesday, with testing through next monday. Mornings have been pretty quiet with no open access during testing, so we've been working on the A/V inventory. We did have the normal k-1 classes wednesday and thursday morning, since they weren't testing, but today Mary Ann had to test and Kellie (the assistant) had to proctor, so we shut down. Somehow or other I didn't make it onto the list to proctor (I did not complain), so I just hung out in the library workroom and did a bunch of processing on some new books.

In the afternoons we've had a pretty busy schedule of classes signing up to come in for lessons, which seemed kinda odd. I had planned out a little program to do some storytelling along with playing flute and we were going to offer it to people to sign up to give their kids a nice break after testing, and they are still welcome to sign up for it sometime if they want, but there was a sudden swarm of people wanting actual skill review lessons (story structure, genres, sequencing, that kind of thing) that filled up the week for the most part, even though those kids were in tests all morning. It seems like too little too late to me, to be suddenly wanting to review test topics the week of the test, but we're glad to have them in any time of course. I've been watching those and stealing all Mary Ann's ideas in between taking over the desk stuff. That's worked out really well to get some practice at, because I already knew how to run circulation and I already knew how to shelve, but doing it all at the same time as well as helping kids and teachers find things in a library that busy is an entirely different task. Other than that, not too much new to report this week.