WEEK TWELVE- Daily Log: Monday, May 14, 2007

• Today was a very different kind of day because the grade sixes were on a field trip. All the classes that I usually go to in the afternoon were cancelled. Mme. Mercer had a bunch of jobs for me to do, so I got right to work. My first job was to stamp the work that the grade eights had done that morning. I did not actually mark the activity they did, but I did stamp according on how much they had completed. Mme. Mercer had given me stamps to account for work not completed and vice versa.


• When I completed this, I moved on to my next task, which was to mark and stamp some of the work the grade sixes had done for homework after my lesson. I had assigned page 56 for homework last week, and they were supposed to have completed it, however some did not, and I was forced to give them a stamp that said "Homework not Completed". If they did finish their homework, I gave them a stamp that said "Merveilleux". I marked the activity out of nine, and they got a bonus mark for writing their name (Mme.'s idea).


• Once I finished this, I proceeded to laminate a poster for Mme. Mercer. I then sat down with Mme. Mercer to make the lesson plans for the next couple of weeks. I am going to be assigning a skit project to the classes, with requirements that I made to go with it. We also decided what pages in their cahier will be assigned on different days.


• Something we did today caught my interest, and showed me how hard this job really is. Mme. Mercer and I sat down to average out the students' grades, however these grades were harder to avereage out becaue they are letters (A+, C, B-, etc) which makes it hard to average, and even more so if the marks are all over the map. We went through all of the grade six classes, and made a tentative mark for oral, written, and reading sections. This was very long and tedious, and I found that my eyes were going cross-eyed.


• I then alphabetized Mme. Mercer's filing cabinet, and we then threw out things she did not need anymore. Mme. Mercer also explained to me what an OSR is, and what has to be done to it each year. I found this very interesting, and did not even know what one was before this. I worked for three and a half hours today.