Hectic Week!
All praise be to Allah SWT I survived the first week of work!
Yesterday morning I got to school early to make photocopies of math assignments for students. Sr. N. uses the TEKsas Daily Moose practice sheets for students. I've took a glance at the worksheets and the questions are actually quite fun to solve.
After all teachers attended a training session about how to use the school's grading system, one of the school board members held a training session about communication. Some of the fun activities conducted during the training helped to break the ice between existing and new teachers.
1. Provide two statements about you that are true, one statement that is false, and let someone guess which is the false one.
2. Introduce the person sitting on your right.
3. Follow the leader - one team member will be blindfolded while the others try to guide him/her to walk from one end of the room to the other end without knocking down cones. The rest of the group is allowed to distract the blindfolded person with sounds.
4. Jigsaw puzzle - group game
During the communications training session, the school board member welcomed me back to school. I was quite surprised by this kind gesture.
In the afternoon teachers were able to work on the classroom preparation. The 4th grade classroom is almost ready except we are still waiting for new students' desks to arrive. Sr. N. brought her three daughters to help her put up classroom wall decorations while I helped the Assistant Principal place order for IOWA Test papers. When that was done, I helped a new 3rd grade teacher carry tables and chairs from the cafeteria to her classroom.
Allah SWT willing I hope that all teachers will be able to get their classrooms ready in time for the Back-to-School night on Monday, Aug 10th.
Yesterday morning I got to school early to make photocopies of math assignments for students. Sr. N. uses the TEKsas Daily Moose practice sheets for students. I've took a glance at the worksheets and the questions are actually quite fun to solve.
After all teachers attended a training session about how to use the school's grading system, one of the school board members held a training session about communication. Some of the fun activities conducted during the training helped to break the ice between existing and new teachers.
1. Provide two statements about you that are true, one statement that is false, and let someone guess which is the false one.
2. Introduce the person sitting on your right.
3. Follow the leader - one team member will be blindfolded while the others try to guide him/her to walk from one end of the room to the other end without knocking down cones. The rest of the group is allowed to distract the blindfolded person with sounds.
4. Jigsaw puzzle - group game
During the communications training session, the school board member welcomed me back to school. I was quite surprised by this kind gesture.
In the afternoon teachers were able to work on the classroom preparation. The 4th grade classroom is almost ready except we are still waiting for new students' desks to arrive. Sr. N. brought her three daughters to help her put up classroom wall decorations while I helped the Assistant Principal place order for IOWA Test papers. When that was done, I helped a new 3rd grade teacher carry tables and chairs from the cafeteria to her classroom.
Allah SWT willing I hope that all teachers will be able to get their classrooms ready in time for the Back-to-School night on Monday, Aug 10th.
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