Date for Entry: (Wednesday 11 October 2023)
Actual Date of Online Entry: (October 2023)
[T1, W:06 – D:27, (Td:2)*].
** picture of desk files
Dear Diary,
This morning I
got to Valsayn with a new maxi driver. It was too hard to wake up. I was
hurried to fix up and go to class. Praise God Miss Mohammed was there in the
office to help me make prints or conduct with 2M. I went to the music room
first but since time was going, I went over to them in Block K. Thery met me at
Block’s doors and we went back into their Home Room.
There was one
more staff of barlines to do in their orange book. Then I had Seth hand out the
Minim and Quaver Note Trees worksheet. The answer for the quaver rest note-tree
was given. I explained that the Minim note tree would be for twenty per cent of
their coursework marks. I handed out the Form 1 Crotchet note tree that they
would not have been given and then the conducting handout. I have each of them
three pieces of masking tape to stick. Exercise A was demonstrated and given
for homework.
Directly after
the quick end of time, I had 1L. They were the first class to have the recorder
lessons. The note was given followed by an explanation and demonstration of
sitting posture, and pitches G, A, B. Some of them still did not remember to
play their recorder when not asked to. They were given a short listening
exercise using the pitches G, A and B to determine what order they were played.
Each bar was in groups of four and they too had to identify how long the pitches
were played. I did not pass around to check books because we had at least two
minutes and thirty seconds. The children seemed to understand how to play.
After recess, the
third lower school had English exams for the second half of the day. Each exam
was a double period long. I got to Block K a bit late after having my recess
but exams did not start as yet. I met Mrs Santana in the corridor. She gave me
the papers and walked me to 1M where I was the supervisor. I greeted the
students and conducted the exam. I also had them turn off their cell phone and
put them in their bags. The bags were already placed in front of the room.
During the exam,
Mrs Santana came to check in and then prefects were coming to let us teachers
off to the staff meeting. I was told by a prefect that there was a staff
meeting going on. I told him that I would prefer to start and supervise the
rest of the exam. For me, I felt like it would have been an irresponsible thing
to do. The class was very cold. We worked down to lunchtime when I collected
the papers. One student was ill and I gave another permission to leave to get
their Form Teacher.
I met back Mrs
Santana in the staffroom. I sat with her and Miss Pierre and the rest of the
room was empty. I learned that the staff meeting was about the Achievements
Awards for picking a theme which was voted on and also come committee to be
formed. I had the worksheets with me for this evening’s exam but Mrs Santana
told me that I was free and I should take it. She gave me a sheet of paper to
write down the instructions for the worksheet I wanted 2F to do. Mrs Sharma-Persad
would be the supervisor for that exam.
On my walk back
to the office, I saw Jessie and Sadia offered to review the time signatures. That
was a good test to see what would happen. The girl as I suspected pulled him
away from the work. I will see if they come tomorrow.
I met “Yash” walking
back to his classroom area. Probably he gave up waiting for me to show. I
apologised and got right into the work. Today’s session was Time signatures for
Grade 1. I decided to skip a good few lessons to help him prep for the exam
that I would like him to do with the rest of the Form 2s.
By the time he
had done four of the exercises in the red book, I had to wrap up and send him
immediately off to class. It was 1:40 pm and he was late for his English B exam
with the rest of the lower school. A 2F student of mine had to be rushed to the
hospital by ambulance. It was very scary to see this happen in an actual
school. I hope that the girl will be alright and back to school soon.
I took the rest
of the afternoon getting my desk in order. I cleaned it up and after looking
for one thing, the whole table got messed up. I cleared it back up a second
time. I also had mew new folder added. The Form 2 content in the Form 1 folders
was now moved over to the Form 2 files. The entire desk was very colourful. Today
was also the first of Miss Gittens’ Wednesday and Friday evening classes for
the Form 5s with SBAs.
Daryl
Zion M. Ali
(7:57
am – 3:39 pm)
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