While it's fresh in my mind!

I'm sure like most of you do, I wait a week till I write about what I did in my observation class the week before.  Yesterday I had good conversation with the other "student observers" in my classroom about being prepared for having our own class.

Am I prepared to take on a class of 25 students?  It's scary to think in just under two years we will hopefully be getting ready to have our own classroom and getting our official lesson plans ready to go.  How could I possibly come up with enough ideas to teach a whole years worth of topics? All these questions keep popping into my head and I think that within the few classes we do lesson plans in are the ones I get most use out of.  I feel as if I can apply those lesson plans to my students some day and use it in the future.  Ok, thats my tangent about classes and my feeling of if I am prepared or not for having my own class.

Writers Notebooks:  I was really excited to get to look at 6th graders writers notebooks.  I felt as if I was still a little bit confused on what to actually do with my writers notebook but it was nice to read some of what they wrote and it gave me a lot of ideas that I hope to incorporate into my notebook as well.  I thought that it was also a great idea to put their spelling word activities in the back of their notebook.  It's a great way to reference words if you don't know them; or if they just learned them and want to use them.