Journal 4

Journal #4

Megan Ball

This week I did my mini lessons. They actually turned out really good. Last semester I did a lesson and it was a train wreck. It was too long and too hard and it just did not go over well. This time it was so good. I timed it almost perfectly and it was so fun. The kids were involved and they had fun and it turned out really successful. I loved teaching because it was fun to show them how to make clouds and filters. I had to push myself because I was not given a topic. She just told me to pick something from the water cycle. I had to push myself to come up with something that the kids did not know or hadn’t done before.

Dishonest people don’t ever know who their friends are because when you lie to your friends, most likely they wont be your friend anymore. I know that if a friend lied to me I wouldn’t trust them as much. I would probably drift away from that friend because I couldn’t trust them. Dishonest people never really know who their friends are because if you lie to your friends, they wont trust you anymore.

Last semester in my math class there was this girl, we were doing our end of semester final and she cheated. My teacher dose this thing where the person with the highest grade on the final gets extra credit. The girl who cheated ended up getting a perfect score. I got the second highest and I would have gotten that extra credit but she got it. I still hate that she got that score.

The statement “no honest person wants to be around a dishonest person” is so true for me. I hate being around people who lie. If a friend lies to me I more than likely will not be their friend. I really hate being lied to so I probably would not hang around them anymore.

Journal 3

Megan Ball

The last two weeks I have just been preparing for my lesson. My lesson is going to be on the water cycle and how water is filtered. Its been fun planning this lesson and getting all the things I need for it. I am really excited for this lesson. I am teaching it on Wednesday. Something else I did this week was I had to untangle all the computer cords. It took 3 hours( 2 days) to do. It was the worst. I hope to teach more lessons throughout the next couple weeks.

Someone would sabotage their own efforts when they don’t care about what they are doing. When people don’t care they don’t put the effort needed into the assignment and they sabotage their efforts. One time I wrote this paper for a class and I did not want to write it and I didn’t care so I just wrote it in like 10 minutes and didn’t even proof read it and turned it in. the teacher ended up submitting some of the papers and they won a contest and their paper was in the newspaper. I wish I would have worked harder on that because that was way cool to have their paper and their picture in the news. I sabotaged myself because I didn’t care and didn’t put the amount of effort I needed into the paper.

It would be in my best interest to know how everyone else does their jobs incase someone needs help. If someone has to step out and there is no one who knows their job that is a problem. Also if someone doesn’t know how to do something then I can help.

To be the very best at my job I would have to go every day with a good attitude and work as hard as I can. To be the very best I would have to be open to learning new ways to do something and get other peoples input. It would take a lot of work to be the best at my job.

Journal 2

Journal #2

The past two weeks have been fun. I mainly this week went out to the trailers and helped one of the teachers with a cereal experiment. It was actually fun. I love when teachers make learning fun, and don’t just teach off of a power point. I get so bored, and if I get bored, 7 year olds will get bored. I love when teachers do hands on experiments and make the lesson fun. I love watching and learning what to do for when I’m a teacher. The teacher I was working with always has really fun lessons and I love being in her class because it gives me examples of what to do when I teach. I love getting to know the teachers. I love getting to know the kids and working with them. This week there was not really any frustration. I hope to teach a lesson sometime soon, and so I am preparing for that.

A time when someone else’s tardiness or absence caused problems for me and my team was on Friday. On Friday me and my dance team all have conditioning practice. The conditioning is hard but it isn’t usually too bad. On Friday we had 20 people who were tardy, and because of that my coach had us run 40 ladders and 10 miles. It was killer. It caused problems because the 20 of us who were on time had to deal with the consequences of those who were late.

I arrive 10 minutes early to work every day. My boss notices that and one day a couple weeks ago i was running late. I called to tell my boss that I would be 10 minutes late and she told me that she notices me show up early every day and that it was fine that I was late because I am so responsible and am usually on time. Being early everyday helped me that day because at my job if you are late, you are usually fired. I was able to keep my job because my boss had noticed that I was always on time and early.

I hope when people think of me they think that I am hard working, I am always on time, and that I an friendly. I really can’t stand when someone doesn’t work hard. It bugs me when people just get by with doing nothing. I hope when people think of me they think that I work hard at everything I do and I’m not lazy. I hate being late. It is my biggest pet peeve. My dad is late. Constantly. He is always late and I hate it. I am always on time and early. I hope no one ever thinks of me as constantly late. I am a really friendly person. I love to have fun and meet new people. I really really hope no one ever thinks of me as boring and unkind.

Journal 1

Journal #1

Megan Ball

I am interning at Freedom Elementary in the 6^th grade. The first couple days that I was there I mostly just went around and met the teachers and introduced myself. Last semester I was interning in the 3^rd grade, and they used me a lot. I was never just sitting there, I always had something to do or prepare for. The 6^th grade does not use me. Which is frustrating. I will go in at 12:45 and go to all six of the 6^th grade teachers, and they wont have anything for me to do, so by 1:15 I am done. My mom works in the Special Education kindergarten at Freedom Elementary so I have just been going in there and helping out until 2:15. Last week when I was walking to the kindergarten, my old 4^th grade teacher stopped me and we talked and she told me that she would use me everyday and would love if I wanted to switch from 6^th grade to 4^th grade. Starting Wednesday I think that I am going to switch to the 4^th grade.

I would say that I am a “the glass is half full” kind of girl. Whenever I am in a tough situation I try to look for the silver lining. Sometimes it is so hard to stay positive, but I try to see the glass half full. I would say most of my friends are “the glass is half full” people. People who are “half full” in my opinion are more fun and like to see the world in a better light, so I tend to gravitate toward them.

If I was a manager, I would prefer if my employees has a good attitude. Especially if they are out in front of the customers. When you go to a restaurant and your server is grouchy and grumpy, you do not have as good of an experience. I feel that it is fair to expect a good attitude from employees.

I used to work at the deli at Thanksgiving as a bus boy, and constantly customers yelled me at if I didn’t clean a table fast enough, it was really hard to stay positive. What I would do was I would just try and think of all the things that went good that day instead of focusing on the bad things that had happened. That helped me a lot to just try and stay positive by focusing on the good instead of focusing on the bad.

Field Trip

                                                          Field Trip to the Aquarium!!!

Internship

I am an intern at Freedom elementary. I interned from september 2014-january 2015.

Photos

Every year Freedom Elementary had a huge Christmas sing. Every grade sings 3 or 4 songs. This is the third grade, the grade I interned for. 

Freedom Elementary has this really cool grant from apple that each kid has their own laptop and ipad to learn on. In this picture they are taking a history test. 

For a couple of the classes Christmas party's we all went into the gym and set up chairs and had hot chocolate and treats while we watched the Polar Express.