Fall 2011
Bridges Preschool
Grade: Pre-K
Hourse: 22
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement at Bridges Preschool. I learned that preschoolers attention span are pretty short. They love to dance, sing and run around, they have an endless stream of imagination and are always concerned about what others are doing and what they are not; they are very interested in people and love to observe their surroundings.
Bridges taught me that kids should have the ability to use their imagination in a classroom and on the playground. Children should be able to be children it is important A teacher should not constantley correct children for every wrong thing they are doing. Let your children make mistakes, it is our responsibility to help them think of how they can not repeat that same mistake by showing them through example
how to treat others.
Bridges Preschool
Grade: Pre-K
Hourse: 22
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement at Bridges Preschool. I learned that preschoolers attention span are pretty short. They love to dance, sing and run around, they have an endless stream of imagination and are always concerned about what others are doing and what they are not; they are very interested in people and love to observe their surroundings.
Bridges taught me that kids should have the ability to use their imagination in a classroom and on the playground. Children should be able to be children it is important A teacher should not constantley correct children for every wrong thing they are doing. Let your children make mistakes, it is our responsibility to help them think of how they can not repeat that same mistake by showing them through example
how to treat others.
Spring 2011
Greenfield Elementary School
Grade: 2
Hours: 30
This semester I had the privledge to volunteer at Greenfiled Elesmentary and observe a 2nd grade class. Each day I would help them with Math, Reading and Scienece or Social Studies. This year the class was learning about butterflies and how they developed. Once the butterflies hatched my mentor teacher and I took the children outside and released the butterflies. The children were so exicted to see the butterflies live in their habitat.
Kids are full of joy. Never is there a moment that I walked away not enjoying my field experiance. Everyday I had a new story that involved a child's innocenet comments and opnions on a topic such as reading a story to them and listening to their feedback. I also helped the class with division, subtraction and multiplication problems. While I was helping a child with Math there would be times that they would not understand how to do the problem. Being able to sit down with them one-on-one and explain throughly how to solve the problem and then watching them go from not understanding to understanding, is a great gift. After volunteering at Greenfiled Elementary it confirmed within my heart that I am an elementary teacher and cant wait to finish my degree and start my carreer.
Greenfield Elementary School
Grade: 2
Hours: 30
This semester I had the privledge to volunteer at Greenfiled Elesmentary and observe a 2nd grade class. Each day I would help them with Math, Reading and Scienece or Social Studies. This year the class was learning about butterflies and how they developed. Once the butterflies hatched my mentor teacher and I took the children outside and released the butterflies. The children were so exicted to see the butterflies live in their habitat.
Kids are full of joy. Never is there a moment that I walked away not enjoying my field experiance. Everyday I had a new story that involved a child's innocenet comments and opnions on a topic such as reading a story to them and listening to their feedback. I also helped the class with division, subtraction and multiplication problems. While I was helping a child with Math there would be times that they would not understand how to do the problem. Being able to sit down with them one-on-one and explain throughly how to solve the problem and then watching them go from not understanding to understanding, is a great gift. After volunteering at Greenfiled Elementary it confirmed within my heart that I am an elementary teacher and cant wait to finish my degree and start my carreer.