WEEK FIFTEEN- Daily Log: Wednesday, June 6, 2007

• Today was a very straight forward day for me because once again, the grade sixes were doing the EQAO testing. I started out by doing a lot of photocoping for Mme. Mercer. She wanted me to make thirty copies of one activity, and thirty of another. The tricky part was when she wanted me to make seventy-five back and front copies of six different activities. This was a problem because all the risographs in the building seem to be out of order. I had to use the photocopier, which proved to be very time consuming. While I was photocopying, a student named Stephanie came into the A.V. room. She is disabled, both mentally and physically, so I took the time to talk to her. We had a nice conversation, and I helped keep her focus on the job that the E.A.'s had given her to work on. She was shredding paper, and becoming very tiresome. I encouraged her and helped her with this.


• When I got back to the french room, Mme. Colonna wanted me to colour some sheets of paper with different articles of clothing. There were about ten different sheets, and it took me the rest of the afternoon to finish colouring. For one of the sheets, the picture hadn't come out clearly, so I retraced the picture and went over it with a fine tipped black marker. I then coloured it very carefully. Tomorrow I will be gluing them on construction paper and laminating all of them. Mme. Mercer also told me that she wanted me to staple some work that she will give her grade sixes next year on the first day of school. It was a very slow week at co-op because of the lack of classes and jobs to go with them.


• It has just hit me that in about one week I will have to say goodbye to my co-op placement and all the people I work with. It is going to be extremely hard for me becuase I have learned so much over the last few months and have had such a fun time doing all of the activities and doing a variety of jobs. I think that I am going to get all of the people I work with a little something as a token of my appreciation; I may also get the students a little thank you. I worked for three and a half hours today.