First Week of Presentations

I thought the first week of presentations went well. Everyone appeared to be slightly nervous while presenting, but that's normal considering it was probably the first time most of us had to present our lesson plans. I thought the content in everyone's lesson plan was through and well planned. I didn't see many lesson plans that were incomplete or unclear.

For my lesson plan, I decided to present on the use of money in a first grade classroom setting. I know I picked kind of an easy one. This was one of the first times I had to create and present a lesson plan in class, so I wanted to make sure it was good. Everyone laughed and seemed to enjoy my presentation, so I guess it was aight. :P

Personally, I would prefer to have more of these oral presentations than written assignments. When I'm a teacher, I'll have to speak in front of students all day. Speaking is not one of my strengths right now, so I want to get all the practice I can get.

I had a really busy weekend, which is why I am posting this blog right now instead of earlier. One of my friends who is my workout partner and gets me in shape and ready for my bodybuilding and fitness modeling shows just got married on Saturday. He got married in that beautiful Mormon temple near the 5 freeway. I'm not Mormon, so I couldn't go inside. But I was able to go to the ring ceremony in Orange County, and it was great. On Sunday, another friend of mine called me and told me that he had an extra ticket to the Patriots vs Chargers game. So heck yea I took that offer! The game was great, the Chargers dominated the Patriots the entire game, 10-30. The fans were even more entertaining, there were two fights between drunks in my section. The first one wasn't near me and was more like a pillow fight. But the second one was about two or three rows behind me, and the drunks really got after it and got beat up with blood all over them. It was really funny to watch.

That's about it for this week (last week). More to come later this week and in the coming weeks when I do my first student teacher presentation with Junior Achievement.