Reflection 4

The dreaded/joyous half day.  On a Friday, wow talk about nuts.  This was after a half day on Wednesday as well for parent teach conferences.  The classes werent shortened, they just cut the day in half.  this meant that the students would only be getting reading writing and language arts, and....GYM.  Wow, the anticipation for that was insane.  The students were crazy all day, and probably the worse behavior wise that I have seen from them.  This came in a span of three weeks were they had a field trip, a Wednesday off, two half days and two assemblies.  Wow thats a lot that just throws off their schedules.  Dont get me wrong, they love every minute of non instruction, but it is so hard to task them when they know all this is coming, or just happened.  It honestly was a great thing to be a part of to see how a teacher actually handles it.  What does he do to keep control, to a murmur?  He allows them to talk, as crazy as it seems it worked.  Because they could talk, if they talked quietly, they werent as rowdy as I thought they might be.  They got Gym because they behaved, and then, the day was over.  Mr. Toth and all teachers had a "meeting" right after school.  That was the reason for the half day.  But it was actually a make up for staying until 7 or later during conferences.  Everyone got to leave as soon as the students were gone.