Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.~Dr. Seuss

Our class had a really easy and fun day. We went on our first field trip! It was awesome seeing how excited all the students where. It was also a good feeling knowing that we are giving these students this awesome opportunity they wouldn't have had otherwise. It also seems weird that almost half of the class hadn't heard of 'Brucemore' before our Cedar Rapids unit and they have been here for most if not all of their lives. With how our class has been the last few weeks I was anticipating the worst. This was more so that I would be happy if it turned out good. And it did! The third graders where broken down into four groups of ten student and two adults. My group was very rambunctious but in a good way. They were excited to be there and really did want to learn about it. The hardest part was not touching anything for the students. Since a lot of the items in the house where from 1900's they didn't want people to touch things because the oil on  your hands can ruin stuff. I can see  why they had a hard time. There is such cool stuff right in front of them with all this awesome information about it why not hold/feel/touch! I think it would be cool if there where replicas of items that kids could hold and look at. They had books that were hand sewn by the first family. Even I thought it would be really cool to just flip through the pages. This would be something easily replicated

I was able to teach a lesson that I created pretty much from scratch. This was also an observed lesson by my supervisor. I was going to teach a parrt lesson but really didn't like how it was set up and the activities for it. So I took the format the original plan had and plugged in what I wanted. The ending activity was a 'funeral for put downs.' We wrote down our mean comments and then buried it (under a plant in the room). The students seemed to be really  interested in the activity. It was interesting that they could think of a lot more 'put downs' than they good 'put ups.'  I think this  reflect more on how much more we remember when someone says something mean to us then when something nice is said.

Tomorrow we have to get back to work and we have our unit test to finish. Hopefully they will be calmer by then and we can get right back to work!