Week 2, Day 1. It's a funny story... ;-)

I had my first hilarious classroom experience in this particular classroom... While I was reading aloud to the class for the first time, one of my students let one fly... and I couldn't help but laugh!!! I felt so terrible, but it was just so unexpected! I couldn't talk, and had tears running down my face... when I finally almost got it under control, I saw my CT (cooperating teacher) laughing, too!! It was a neverending cycle. Luckily, the poor student is more outgoing and was totally OK with it, and my CT and I tried to cover it by saying that it was a funny story from lunch that we were laughing at... I'm so glad I wasn't in front of the class during writing, cause he let two more go during that lesson. Oh boy!

So that made the day pretty interesting! Besides that, I got to do the morning routine (lunch count, calendar, weather, etc.) lead one guided reading group, and walk the students to their specials. I was more nervous than I thought to do the morning routine, and I have to work out some kinks since it took me forever to get through it all. My CT gave me some positive comments about it, though, and one thing to think about: some of the students didn't come to the carpet right away for calendar, so she said to think about other techniques to use to get everyone on the carpet, in case the students ignore me saying "Clean up your desk and come over here!" That's definitely something I should have in mind!

For tonight, my homework is to watch The Bachelor so that I can participate in the teacher's lounge lunch discussion about it tomorrow ;-)