Morning Class (SUPERHEROS!): Time flies for me in this class! I really think it is because of all of the awesome students in this class. I have a blast with them! Today, after I did a statue scene with a group of boys, I went around and high fived them all. A big mistake. This lead to millions of rounds of "high five, low five, too slow!" Which I was totally fine pretending that they all tricked me each time. The boy from yesterday (we will call him K) still liked me! Yay! Today we had a poking war. He would poke me and then I would secretly poke him back. So much fun.
In this class we played some walking games where we acted like either superheros or villains. We also acted out a scene where some of us were superheros, some were villains and some were prisoners. We also are trying to make a list of all super powers we can think of. Right now we are up to 82 different powers. By the end of the week we want to be up to 200. I thought the class was fun and entertaining until Ritchy (who is the assistant for this class) told me that one of the students told his mom that he was bored during the class. Which I can understand. The teacher is trying to do some activities that are a little advanced for k-3rd. It is a hard age group to keep together because the 3rd graders are grasping the activities much quicker than the kindergartners. I really hope this kid comes back tomorrow and that the teacher tries some new strategies to keep him involved. I would really like to learn from what he does from here.
Afternoon class (MUSIC JAMS): I have a couple girls in this class that follow me around. :) So I make sure to do everything that the teacher is saying so that these girls will be doing what she says. Today we worked on a dance we learned yesterday to an Elvis song (title slips my mind right now). We also learned a dance and the singing to the Annie song "Hard Knock Life". The students will be pretending they are sailors/pirates on a ship and that they have a hard life. It is as cute as it sounds.
I think Anna (the teacher) is doing a really great job with this class. I think her style would be the closest to a style I would use. She has control of her classroom but isn't always yelling at the students. She goes to the flow and takes the students' inputs. She also plays music all the time. I do enjoy learning from her.
This morning Sean announced that I would be in charge of the "lunch break" next week and that I can pick a partner to work with. (We do activities for the students after they eat their lunches). I picked Briana, who hadn't done it yet. I think we are going to do a Mystery week! Each day we will do a mystery type game. Some ideas I have: scavenger hunt, the game assassins (winking game-will probably change name), a game like Mafia, and set up our own "murder" mystery story where everyone is a suspect. It should be a lot of fun, but lots of planning.
After classes today, I went in to talk to Sean about Honk! Which is the 3-week intensive for 4th-8th graders that starts next week. The director, Ed, said to me a couple of weeks ago that my main job would be to do props. After thinking about it, I went to Sean and Debra and asked if there would be more to the job than props because that is not what I am here for. I'm here on a education internship. Sean said he would talk to Ed about it and get back to me. So today I asked what Ed said.
Apparently, the job will not just be props. I will most likely be pulling props with the Prop Master and Sean, but for not very long. Then I am just in charge of tracking the props (making sure they are in the right spots, knowing where they are going onstage). Sean said my job will hopefully be more like Assistant directing. Which is much more of what I want to do. But he told me that I need to talk to Ed myself and tell him what my objectives are, so I can get all I can from this experience. Sean said this is going to be a great experience. He said that the students that are in this show are intense, serious, and talented. And that I will learn a lot from Ed. Which I think I will. I want to know how he is so organized, straightforward, and what his secrets are for teaching. But Sean told me that I need to be selfish about my internship. That if this isn't something I want to do, I can tell him anytime. He said to try it a week, and if by the second week I don't want to do it I can do something else, or I can go to half days. I have a feeling that I am going to like it. Sean also told me that I have been getting great reviews from my past teachers. That the best part of me is that I am confident in what I am doing. He said a lot of interns go into the classes a little scared...but that I don't do that (I just don't show it :] ). He also shared with me that Debra was really impressed by me, that I came to them about the whole props job and shared my concerns with them, instead of just doing what they ask without enjoying it. That's a big thing to hear from them. I then asked Sean, if the teachers had any things they thought I should work on (because that is what I am here for, to improve), but Sean said not yet! He said that at the end of the internship he will give all the interns information about what they worked best at/with and suggestions on what to work on. That seems really helpful.
So all in all, a really great day. It's good to hear these sorts of things from Sean, so that I know that they care and that this internship is really worth everything that I have sacrificed. It is also great to hear that I am being successful at this sort of work. Good feelings.
Have a great night/day! Talk to you tomorrow!
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