The first day of my directed field work my mentor showed me around the school and we sat down and talked about how she plots her schedule with the two school administrators. She walked me through some of the projects that she is working on with the different classes. I met her incredible parent volunteers.

Mid-afternoon, I gave a mini lesson about the Caldecott Medal awards and read I Want my Hat Back by Jon Klassen with her small ICT class. During one of the lunch periods Book Club kids came in to discuss why they like using the Playaways in addition to having the traditional book. I kept notes and took pictures as a potential advocacy project. The rest of the afternoon I helped shelve books and took down the old bulletin board. *I got to meet her parent volunteers.

After the afternoon check-out rush we brainstormed lesson plan ideas that I could help with and ultimate present to one of her classes. Right now she’s working on a dinosaur research project in Pebblego, so we were thinking maybe a note-taking or citing lesson.