Adding More Classes Each Week

Today I added social studies to my list of subjects. Next week I will add science, so I will be teaching everything. I will have the students all on my own next week because Ms. E. will be gone. There will be a substitute, but he will mainly be working with a couple of the students that have a learning disability or ADHD. I am excited for this experience because I find myself more relaxed with the students when Ms. E is not in the room. She is a great teacher, but I think I am just trying too hard to be perfect too when she is in the room. I am hoping to do some cooperative group work in social studies and fit in an experiment for science. They have done very little of this thus far. They do not have much time for science at all, so I am considering combing the time I have for social studies and science one day and use it only for social studies. That would give me more time for science the next day. I have also found that the students do not know much about content area reading, so I am hoping to use some strategies I learned at BSU to help them. She also told me I could write my own lesson plans on poetry for language arts. I am very excited about teaching poetry. Students usually role their eyes when you mention poetry, so I am excited to get them excited about it. I have a great group of students who seem to react well to my classroom management style. I hope it will be a fun week. After this I hope to have a opportunity to create a bulletin board.