WEEK FIFTEEN- Daily Log: Tuesday, June 5, 2007

• Today was another day where the grade sixes were working on their EQAO testing, meaning that the regular classes were not being held. So Mme. Mercer had prepared some jobs that would take up the majority of the afternoon. She had gone to the french storage room before my arrival and retrieved an assortment of colours of construction paper. I then went to one of the grade eight classrooms to get more paper. I was to photocopy 150 copies of a french verb wheel. There were two parts to this wheel, so we had to make 150 copies of each. Each part of the wheel was supposed to be a different colour, so we made sure that there was a variety. It was difficult to fit the construction paper into the photocopier at first, but after a few tries we (Brian and I) managed to be successful. We got through the photocopies very quickly. Mme. Mercer then wanted me to cut out all of the wheels, and it took a very long time to complete this job, and my hand started to cramp.


• I then sat down with Mme. Mercer because she wanted to show me how report cards are formatted and made. She showed me the different comments that went with each grade level, and how she would alter them to fit the student more. I found this all very interesting because I have never really seen all of these details before. I learned about how much space is avaliable for each comment, and how the computer processes each student's mark.


• Mme. Colonna then wanted me to hole-punch more activity sheets for her classes. This took some time. My next job was to out back all of the construction paper that was not used in the french verb wheels.


• Last period, Mme. Mercer and I went to class where the students worked on the good copies of their recipes. I walked around the class, helping the students with any issues they had about the assignment. I also ran little errands for Mme. Mercer such as bringing letters to various teachers. I worked for three and a half hours today.