A month already!!!

This week "started off" (2 holidays before the week even started) with me being thrown in the deep end. On wednesday i arrived at school with lessons ready only to be told that my mentor tea her was absent. Up until this point i had been making use of my mentors laptop to display my lessons as it was conected to the projector and internet. Had i known he would be absent i would have brought my own laptop, but unfortunately this was not what happened. I was however able to make a plan and ended up taking my class to the computer lab where one of the other teachers allowed me to do my lesson with his computer ( i made sure to stress my thankfulness to him for doing so).  Despite this hicup my lesson went well, aside from the occasional distraction of this different environment. This lesson was my first lesson with this particular class which has been begging me to teach them since the second week of school. The very same day i was asked to invigilate two grade 11 tests. The invigilation went well with no issues from the learners side, a couple of errors in the test paper were however pointed out and delt with. I am very fond of the grade 11s, both of the classes which i teach, i will unfortunately be teaching them much less in future as i need to build up a relationship with my grade 9 and 10 classes which i will be evaluated on. This makes me somewhat sad as  enjoy teaching the grade 11s most of all. I have to admit that i did not expect to become attatched to a class of learners quite this quickly. Nevertheless i do have to pass my year so my marks need to come first.

Thursday and friday passed by in somewhat of a blur. I was able to get some lessons done in both life and natural science which is good considering time is running out. In one of my life science lessons i recapped the work which i had done withthe learners in the weeks prior to today. My recap lesson consisted of a game of life science 30 seconds. I divided the class into teams and had a few members of each team come up and explain a word to their team. All of the words which were given to them had been covered in the lessons and the expectation was for the learners to use discriptions which they had learnt in class to explain the words to their teams. This did not go 100% as planned as learners resorted to other means of explaining  but the teams were able to guess correctly in any case. This lesson was the highlight of my week as it was so satisfying to watch the learners enjoy a lesson which i put effort into so much. Some of the learners even requested that i do recaps of all the work they had done in the 1st and 2nd term as well. This is however very unlikely but i do intend on making many more fun lessons for them to take part in.
Friday was the matrics 40 days at the school, it was wonderful to see all of the different outfits and careers which the matrics showcased. From firemen to doctors all had their plans. I would also point out that many of the naughtier faces do clean up well and put on good manners when they need to.

This week, as short as it was, was still jam packed and every moment was a new discovery and oppertunity for me to learn.