WEEK FIFTEEN- Daily Log: Monday, June 4, 2007

• Today was a different sort of day because the grade sixes had EQAO testing. Therefore I would not be going to the classes to help out. During the lunch recess I hole-punched a few piles of worksheets for Mme. Colonna. There were a lot of acitivities to hole-punch, so it kept me occupied for a long while. I made sure that Mme. Colonna didn't need help with anything else before I asked another teacher. Mme. Mercer had said that she was going to work on report cards, so I should float around and help others.


• Mrs. Malizia, the librarian, had been away for about a week, so she was very behind in some work. I offered to shelf the books that had gathered during the week she had been away. There was a whole trolley full, and it took the majority of the afternoon to shelf them all properly. There were fiction, non-fiction, children, and chapter book sections, so this kept me on the move. I used the dewey decimal system to help guide me, as well as the author's last name. This work became very strenuous because I had to bend down a lot in order to put the books on the bottom shelves. My back started to hurt because of this, and I really saw what Mrs. Malizia has to do all the time. Once I finished, I told her that if she needed any help this week, to just ask me.


• Last period, Mme. Mercer and I went to one of the grade six classes where they were working on the good copies of the recipes they had started to make on Friday. I walked around the class to answer any questions or concerns they had regarding the activity. Some were acting very goofy, and I had to calm them down and remind them to focus on the work that was in front of them. I think the fact that they had been working on the EQAO all day had affected them. Overall, today was very fun and quite different for me. I felt a great sense of accomplishment when I finished shelving the books. I am also becoming more and more comfortable with being assertive and firm with the students. I feel that they are respecting me more and more. I worked for three and a half hours today.