Wk 3 - Day 13

today's lab was working with film canisters. mrs. s and i labeled empty film canisters "a,b, and c" and filled them up with various objects...salt and a marble, paper clips, and dried peas. the students had to figure out what was in the canisters by shaking, rolling, weighing, etc., the canisters. this led into how geologists don't really know what is in the earth by sight...instead they figure it out by other methods. the students liked the activity...i could tell by the productivity and discussion in the room.

ms. b, mrs. s and myself had a talk today...we all decided that ms. b will have to separate from co-teaching with mrs. s and do her own thing at her own pace. the majority of students she has in her classroom are special needs and they just can't keep up the pace of mrs. s's students. i mentioned this very thing to mrs. s the week prior...in how i couldn't see the two of them continuing to work together because of such the vast differences in learning abilities of the students. ms. b and i also talked about how things weren't working for the three of us...finding common prep time was next to impossible. so...ms. b and i agreed to have prep time after school, otherwise if we met at any other time it would take away teaching time for me. we'll see how that goes next week.