First couple of days!

First couple of days: preparing preparing preparing!!

1. staff meeting
First day first thing in the morning was brunch and a staff meeting. We met the staff at the school and they were all very warm and kind, made us all student teachers feel more at ease. The meeting consisted of the Principal going over the rules and regulations, registering for committees etc etc. It went on for 3 hours!

2. classroom
Then came the main task: cleaning and preparing the classroom!
As my teacher got a very late notice about staying at the school, we were given a classroom that was not fully cleaned. I had to throw away hundreds (and this I mean literally) of ancient old books, posters, teaching material. It was tempting to save some, but my teacher went right ahead to get rid of them. I realized that's cleaver: things are going to pile up during the year anyway, and you might as well start off with the things you know are yours and know where they are located.

After a long process of cleaning, I was given the assignment of putting up bulletin boards. with borders of course!

I did the same thing for the outside bulletin board: it took so long but I finally finished!

It's time to Learn in Mrs. Kornitzer and Miss Monica's Class!! :)

The children start Tuesday, will write more then!

Field Experience 3

I set up this blog to record my experience at the third field experience of my degree. From the past Wednesday, August 25th, to December 3rd (just officially, who knows how long I'll actually stay :P) I will be student teaching at a public school in Montreal.

I will be teaching a grade 1/2 split class in English Language Arts, as well as teaching all grade 1 and 2s ERC. This will make up 50% of the full time, the other 50% I will be doing resource teaching.

I don't know how much time I will have to sit and reflect on my experience, but thought I'd at least give a try, so here it is!