Journal Colombo

 On this day the kids and preteens had the exam, and I had to do a review session for both courses. I think both reviews came out pretty well. In the moment of actually doing the reviews in class, I felt very confident and both kids and preteens seemed to understand and do the exercises successfully. For this I felt proud and reassured that I was doing things right to help them practice and study for the exam. Once the time for the exam came, it felt nice as the students were comfortable enough to ask me various questions, so I went around answering their questions until the time was up.

 On this day I had my second and final observation. I had throughly planned the classes so I felt more confident than in the past few session, but still I felt a little nervous and anxious as always. The observation I had was, again, with the preteens course. I think overall it went okay, the kids seemed to really understand the topics and seemed like they were enjoying the activities, which made me feel at ease. 

I wasn't on day 14th because I had a mandatory appointment at university, so I returned on day 15th. The day before this one was Halloween, so they advised us to do lessons Halloween themed. I wanted to do something different and fun for the kids, specially because of this date. I took my time thinking about activities and games, and managed to do a decent lesson plan for both courses. The kids class was more Halloween themed, they even came all dressed up in their costumes which was cute, but with the preteens I mainly focused on reviewing the last unit of the book and had the project presentation. It was still hard but I did feel a bit better compared to day 13th. 

 On this 13th day of classes I was feeling particularly anxious and stressed. I had planned the classes for both courses but I felt they werent good nor enjoyable, the thing is that I didn't had the time to plan anything else. And so the class with the kids didn't go that well. They were very distracted and this slow doing the activities. Of course I blamed myself for this, so when the class ended I felt bad about it. This leaded to me feeling worse thinking I had the class with the preteens next, so I decided to not enter. I informed my team teacher and my supervisor that I wasn't feeling great and my team teacher ended up doing the class instead. I apologised and they fourtunately understood. Hopefully next classes I feel better and have the time to plan better lessons.