Day 2

Today I finally had a meeting to talk about expectations and how this couple of weeks are to be arranged. I sat down with Thomas, my practicum coordinator, and he seemed very
knowledgeable about the whole practicum process and put me at ease considerably.

In the afternoon I spent until 5 o' clock with Rebecca sorting out exactly what and when I'm going to teach; tomorrow I'm starting off with just one small group in spelling. I've got to check they know their ey/ies rules properly and have a couple of games worked out.

We had chapel this morning and it was really interesting watching the year 4 boys singing songs and performing the actions to them in the midst of a whole school setting. They seem to be caught in a pre-pubescent stage whereby they still have fun doing the actions, but have a sense that it is not particularly cool. The year 5s have stopped participating, but the year 4s are making fun of themselves and the songs as they sing and do the actions. That way,it seems, they get to be cool and have fun at the same time. It's an interesting stage of development they are going through.