Day 16:

Oh what another great Monday!! We ended the notes on macromolecules in Chem today with lipids. Lipids is just a fancy word for fats. These notes were a little shorter than the other notes but this gave them more time to work on the worksheet I handed out. At the beginning of one of my classes today, the students were being super chatty. I made one louder statement about their talking and their wasn't anymore chatting for the rest of lecture. Not quite sure if I just scared them or if they truly respect me but I'm going to go with the fact that I'm very intimidating :) To help make them get a visual of saturated and unsaturated I made a square out of tape on the floor. I had as many students stand in this square as would fit. Not many students were wanting to participate, so I volun-told people to participate. After they fit into the square standing straight, I instructed them to get "kinky". They basically just made funky shapes with their arms and legs, and tried to fit in the square again. This activity was good to get them moving on a Monday. After school today I had to go to a meeting with the other student teachers in the district. We mainly just talked about what we were doing in our classrooms, and we also talked about our personal teaching philosophies.

I wore one of my golf sweaters for class today. This was not the best choice today because Laramie decided to be extremely hot and I was dying of heat. Thankfully, I didn't create any pit stains!

To accompany my black skinny pants, I wore my brown riding boots. With the high temperatures that we had today, I'm debating on wear sandals and a sundress tomorrow :)

 

 

Day 15:
Sorry this wasn't posted on Friday.  In Chem, I lectured on carbohydrates in the same format as I did the proteins. I made a flow chart for them to follow and we went through some great real world like cellulose, starch, and chitin. In case you don't know what chitin (pronounced kitten) is, it is the exoskeleton of lobsters and crabs. In the middle of them taking notes, they made glucose molecules with molecular sets. Some students really liked building the structure with their own hands, while others weren't too keen on this activity. An activity that I forgot to do during this lecture was where the students convert starch to glucose. The kids chew up a saltine cracker and have to keep it in their mouth with saliva. After about a minute of the cracker reacting with the saliva in their mouth, the flavor in their mouth turns sweet.
After this whole week was over, I was so happy with the lessons that I did with the students. Jen thought they went really good as well and I hope she will use my ideas next year as well.
Since it was Friday, I decided to wear some nice jeans and a long sweater. I really love this sweater! It is so soft and just flows very nice. My jeans are some new MissMe jeans and my shoes are just some leather heels. I wore my 45 auto necklace again and a couple boys noticed it today. They thought I was super cool because I wore ammo jewelry.