Well, things are getting slowly under way. I only have to write three rationales and put four more artifacts in my portfolio for the College of Education. I can't believe how far I am. I actually have much less to do than most of the other girls in my block of classes, which really surprises me!
With only a month left of school, you'd think things wouldn't be too bad. Well, I've got a service learning project, a themed unit (which should try to tie in with the service learning project), a field trip assignment, and some other random small things due in the last four weeks of school. Plus one of those weeks is spent out in the field at the elementary school in Belle Fourche where I've been doing my junior field experience, so that won't be so bad; I just have to teach two more lesson plans that week, one using technology somehow (which is hard, because they're not a very technologically advanced school), and the other just a regular lesson. I also have to journal and reflect on every day I spend in the field which takes up about two hours of every evening after I get home (except Mondays because I have to leave the school early to make it to work on time, and by the time I get home at midnight, I'm too tired to journal).
Slowly slowly slowly getting things finished up. I've brainstormed a ton of ideas for my themed unit and service learning project, I just need to put them on paper and in the right sequence now, and the field trip is going to be kind of a pain in the butt, but I'll survive.
The field trip assignment has to do with Monday the 10th when our class took a trip to the Wildlife Sanctuary here in Spearfish. BEAUTIFUL animals live there. White tigers, Siberian tigers, "common tigers," a liger, lions, a lion that lives with a beagle, peacocks, cats, chinchillas, ocelots, lynx, bobcats, coyotes, panthers, cougars, camels, pigs, ponies, goats, fowl, dogs, a half dog/half wolf, bears - you name it, it probably lives there.
The facility has over 18 tigers alone! They have more tigers than they do dogs. It was amazing to hear each of their stories and learn why they were living at the facility. I must say, there are some crazies in Minnesota who think it's a good idea to keep tigers as pets.
So anyway, we have to write up a field trip plan - note to parents, permission slips, classroom management, a lesson plan to do involving the sanctuary somehow, everything. So we went to the sanctuary first, so we could see what the facility was like, so we could plan a field day around the sanctuary. It was really an incredible experience to see all of those animals, living less than 10 miles from my apartment...I had no idea there were that many animals living there.
But yeah, that's my update for the week. I've been staying after school in the computer lab for anywhere between 3 and 5 hours a night when possible, getting assignments done. I'm ready for a break! Thank goodness it's Easter!
Oh, and a happy 21st birthday goes out to my roomie, Jill! *smile*
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