Today one of the classroom teachers said to me: "teaching here is like being a grandmother, you get to do great things with them but then you send them away."
On Monday I observed the "Discover the Waterfront" program with a group of grade 2s and then we went back inside to make accordion books. I'm a pro now at making accordion books. The program ended early and I finished up the day thinking about the school program Mike and I will be designing.
On Tuesday I observed two sessions of "Altered Art" with grade 6 classes. This program looks at identity and I've seen how important having relevant and intriguing sources is for this age group. When they make collage they need sports and fashion magazines that they relate to in order to draw inspiration. The school visits program has lots of donated magazines but most of them are old and crafts focused. I'll be sending out a call to my friends not to throw their magazines away!
On Wednesday I worked on research for our school program related to an upcoming exhibit at The Power Plant.
On Thursday I did "Rod Puppets" all day. I watched Anne in the morning and taught part of the session in the afternoon. It was great to start teaching again.
On Friday I helped with prep for other programs, getting materials ready and organized.
For every program that I assist with I do the set up and the clean up. The community at Harbourfront is great and we all pitch in the get every ready to go and then clean up. Set up is about an hour and 15 minutes in the morning, depending on how complicated the class is. Many of the projects have a lot of components that need to be organized for both the morning and afternoon classes as there is not enough of a break to do a second set up and eat lunch between the classes.
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