The End of Semester- :(

Friday was the last official day of classes for this semester. It was also the last day of our Lab school experience with the Polaris students. I feel sad that I will not be seeing them next semester. It was a bit of a rocky road learning to just be the teacher, but I feel good about our experience and where it will take us. It was perhaps more valuable than some of my other educ classes in that the experience was authentic and the responsibility was on me and my peer/co teachers. Learning to work in a group/team was a lot of the challenge, we all have different ways of approaching teaching and interacting with children, as well as work ethics. I know it will be a challenge to be the only teacher and I will miss my team. It was really good to be able to bounce ideas back and forth and split the work load (most of the time). I hope to find a district to work in that really supports teacher collaboration and cross content learning. Not only the district I suppose but the teachers in the district.  That is all for now, I will have more reflections soon. Oh yeah, there is also the finished metals project! I will post some photos of the finished army of spiders soon.