I came out of this week feeling sad from saying goodbye to the students and happy that we all made it to the end of the school year and feeling confident after all the things the students had said to me over the last few weeks. My kids spoiled me with confidence. They were such a great class and I feel so blessed to have had them as my class to work with and grow with and become a better stronger teacher from all that they taught me, yes even the ones who misbehaved because they made me search for other ways to work with them and expand in classroom management strategies.
This week was really relaxed and not much happened it being the last week and only having 1 ½ days of school.
· Tuesday I got to experience two new things. The first was an assembly. Watching the students was more of a priority then watching the assembly. Making sure students were behaving and not messing around and doing things they should not be doing. The assembly went on kind of long and I could tell the students were getting restless. They were for the most part good but some students had to come over and sit by us since they would not sit still and be respectful to all the others there and around them.
· The 2nd thing we did on Tuesday was watcher Where the Red Fern Grows with the 2nd grade. So this was just about like the assembly experience. Making sure students were all sitting up and watching the movie. Making sure they were talking and doing what they were supposed to be doing. It was a day full of monitoring students. It was a good day though. They kids enjoyed the movie and they had lots to say in contrast to what was in the book (they read that earlier in the school year).
· Thursday I spent the day working on a project for my teacher. First I dicut the alphabet for her. Then I cut out all of Fry’s first 300 sight words. She wanted me to alphabetize them next so I did. After that I had to alphabetize the words in each letter. So all of that took most of the morning. After the kids left I continued my work and didn’t even stop to each my lunch and worked 12-3 nonstop to finish my project and finished right at 3. I laid yellow paper out all over the room and walk around and laid the words out in alphabetical order and put each dicut letter right before that group of sight words started. After they were all laid out and I got the approval I glued them all down to the paper. Now this really does take longer than you would think. I glued and glued and glued and glued. I was so proud of my work when I was finished and I did something that I hope to also do for my classroom, I really liked the idea.
· I got to spend some time with the kids. They were all having me sign things of their and really made me feel special. Even student I did not know just because I was there wanted me to sign their papers and year books. It really made my day. Reminds me that students at such a young age don’t care who you are but love you no matter what and think that you are cool because you are older and a teacher. Kids at that age are what I want to work with. They don’t judge each other and they all love everyone.
Stop and think moment this week was the random kids I have never seen asking me to sign their things. I didn’t say no to them but I was wondering why they were asking me to sign, I wasn’t their teacher, technically I am not even really a real teacher yet. It however felt really good to be asked to sign things for them. No one is left out of these kids’ lives. They want everyone to sign and the more people sign the better they feel or just because of the fact that they love everyone. None of them judge each other and none of them don’t like someone for one stupid reason or another. The sweet innocence of being so young and still at that age before good friends out cast others because out of nowhere that person isn’t “cool”. Why can’t we all be like the little children? We are told to be in the scriptures. The unconditional love for everyone around them including strangers and no judgmental feelings, we need to be more like them.
I don’t really have anything to prepare for next week since I have no school next week. But over the next week prepare myself for a new experience. This will not be like what we just went through. Read back over my journals from summer school for early field last year to remind me what it was like and just really remember what I have learned and retain it all to get ready to go into summer school.
<3 Erin Christina
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