Exhaustion hit in today. It's my own fault, I'm still jet lagged as we flew home from the States on Sunday, and I was basically straight in without any sleep on Monday. But it caught up with me today.
So, baring in mind I was (and am now, so apologies for spelling mistakes/crazy ramblings) shattered, I had a really good day. I was in with Year 3 today - it was an odd mixture of kids. There were two which melted me immediately, 4 or 5 which were either naughty or didn't want to be there and most of the rest were pretty much invisible. Not that they were quiet, but that they made pretty much no impression on me - you could put them in a line up and I wouldn't have a clue who I was looking for.
It was the first class I've been in where the teacher habitually wears jeans to teach in, and my suspicions were confirmed that behaviour would e worse (although I admit its not really a fair test as I was there for one day and that could have just been an off day. It also could be to do with the specific set of children and their own idiosyncrasies and it could have been because a lot of them were not English as a first language. But I think I will always maintain that casual dress in a school should be reserved only for 'mufti' days.
Today consisted of literacy, numeracy and IPC (I actually have no idea what that stands for....) In literacy, we were studying instructions, and I go to help teaching the lesson about note taking in order to get the instructions down quickly. Numeracy was about 'moving on by x' - so moving on by 2 or 10 from a given number and trying to spot patterns. And IPC was about 'the brain' and what it helps us to do.
Last day on this placement tomorrow, so I need to get everything signed and sorted and then I can head home for my one days break before I begin my actual PGCE!
Night, S x
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