Adventures in Third Grade

After visiting the school and meeting the students and teacher that my partner Debi and I will be working with on our science tutoring project, I am so excited to start this journey!!  The third graders were very outgoing and excited that we will be working with them.  They showed enthusiasm for science and seemed interested in getting the opportunity to work with us.  I am feeling confident in our lesson plan and can't wait to get those supplies in hand and start talking about matter!  Matter matters don't you know!!

I also now realize how valuable this science education will be for these students.  They have not had time for science instruction up until this point so the teacher in the classroom is very excited her students will be having this experience.  I think the students are going to find getting this hands work with science and developing their process skills is going to be a lot of fun.  I also realize how lucky I am to be getting this in-the-classroom experience while I am still studying to become a teacher.  Teaching these science lessons will definitely help ease my nerves when I have to step in front of my own classroom someday.

I am very excited to be able to post about our first lesson next week.  Stay tuned for all the fun details to follow!    

And for now, here is the giant pumpkin at the Big E!!