Week 12 - Day 54

well...this is the beginning of the last week of student teaching. i'm looking forward to my teaching coming to an end...but it's very sad at the same time too. i love the middle schoolers...i just want to have a paycheck coming in. all of my cohorts that are student teaching are in the same spot as me...no income, but they are all married and at least they still have money coming in even if it's less than before. i'm on my own and i'm out of money...i need to work.

today we are starting to study the kingdom fungi. i was finally able to check out the video "fatal fungus." a high school teacher was being over protective of it...she was very hesitant to let it out of her classroom and have 7th graders watching it. i guess she plays it for her sophomore class and was worried about students watching it again 3 years later. the students watched the video and we later took notes. i usually have one day a week in which students take notes...so, the video day was the day. the students seemed to be very interested. i wanted them to watch something "scary" about fungus...when asked about kingdom fungi, the students seemed to think only about mushrooms. they caught on pretty quick in figuring out why the boy baby in the crib (his twin sister was on the other end of it) was sicker than her. the vent was closer to him than her...and he breathed in more spores. it was a lively discussion.