I can't believe that September is almost over, that means that we are now 4 weeks into classes. That is scary! This is my last year at Lock Haven and it is going so quickly already.
I presented my science lesson this week in class and I feel that it went well overall. The class seemed to understand the concept that I was teaching and enjoy the activity that went along with it.
Wednesday night I went out on a night hike with the outing club. It was a lot of fun, even in the light rain. We saw a yellow spotted salamander, which was awesome because I have never seen one before. Last night we saw the hipnotist on campus. I am glad that there is always something going on, not that I can make it to everything all the time but atleast I know that it is there.
Last weekend was open house and I also had a friend up to visit. Open house went well, there were a lot of people there, I really enjoyed being on the pannel. Also, my tour group was awesome!
This Saturday is homecoming and I have to work my Saturday group tour. It should be a good weekend.

Posted by Carolyn Braun at 10:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

So this is week three and my first lesson plan of the semester was due. This was for my science methods class. I will be honest and say that I changed that plan up until the minute before I had to submit it online. I think that it is good to have it due so far in advance because I can now focus on presenting the lesson and not changing it again. This lesson is on electricity and we will be using a hands on lab for the students to be able to light up light bulbs with batteries and wires. I an excited and I hope that it goes well when I present it nest week.
Tomorrow is our first open house for the semester. I am looking foward to seeing how many people will be attending.

Posted by Carolyn Braun at 10:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

So my second week of classes is coming to an end. It is nice not to have class on fridays right now, especially since we did not have class on monday for Labor Day. I am settling into a routine with my classwork and still having some fun time. It usually takes we between one to two weeks to make my study and homewrok schedule. Oh and this week club meeting started again. Horray for outing club. We are going out on a hike this evening. I am excited because have not hung out witl all my outing club friends in forever.
I did not get to go kayaking over the weekend, but I did go to A-frame falls on Rock Ruc with some friendds and jump off a waterfall. It was super fun. When the water is up higher that is a totally runable drop in the kayak. That will be a trip for later on this winter.

Posted by Carolyn Braun at 10:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This was our first week of classes. I started my block classes which is my professional semester just prior to student teaching. I am in the same classes with the same people all day long 4 days a week. Fridays we do not have class scheduled, but we will be tutoring and participating in the classroom on that day once the semester really gets started.

Over the past weekend I was able to get out and go paddling with my friend DJ. We went and ran the Nescopeck Creek on Saturday and Pocono Creek on Sunday. Pocono creek was amazing! It is a class 4 run and I acutally completed it successfully.

Posted by Carolyn Braun at 11:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)