This was the week of Thanksgiving so the students had the whole week off. Monday was parent-teacher conferences. I was really looking forward to seeing a conference and how it looked and felt but unfortunately, because it is a music classroom, none of the parents signed up for a conference. From 10-8 my cooperating teacher and I had not one parent show up. I understand that it is an elementary school and that it is music but these students are learning things and some of them are not learning what they are supposed to be.
The good news is that I got to spend a lot of time with my cooperating teacher planning of the next few weeks and help her plan for her next show. It was a good learning experience seeing how much plan time and work that goes into the shows that the kids do. The show that we were planning for was the k-2nd grade show and it is titled "Bugs" I helped pick out and order the music as well as help with some of the general programming.
Even though I did not get to see a conference I think that I got a valuable insight into planning a show that I would not have gotten if we had parent-teacher conferences.
