Today is our last day of teaching and of fieldwork with the fourth graders at Saint Joseph's. On this day, we had a lot to setup so we wanted to get there at least 45 minutes early... but it didn't work out in our favor. The students all week were state testing and because this was the last day of their state testing, there were a few still testing when we got there. The front desk had told us that we weren't allowed to stay in the building, so we had to leave until most of the students were finished. We finally were able to come into the building (10 minutes before the lesson was supposed to start) and ad to quickly set up everything in the gym!! The gym is a tough place to teach because of how much it echoes, but worked with what we had at the moment. Someone ad brought us a computer screen to use and then the lesson began... with four students total. We carried on and eventually more and more students came into the gym, just in time for us to complete our activities that involved groups. The lesson was completed on time and everything really worked out. I was proud of not only myself, buy my whole group too. I couldn't have done it without them. One thing I learned from this day is that as a teacher, you've got to learn to roll with the punches because not everything is going to go as planned.
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