Field Experience: Day One

Today was my first day of my field experience. I am doing my field experience in the school that I used attend , in Wabasso. I am in a 2nd grade classroom with my old 4th grade teacher who now teaches 2nd grade, Mrs. Eichten. In the morning they start off their day with the new spelling words of the week and calendar. After that they did reading and I got to listen to two students read me a book during this time, I also got to help them do a worksheet on pronouns that was given out when they were getting a little extra help in title one with their reading. So I explained to them what the worksheet was about and had them read the directions to me and I helped them do the problems that they missed. I'm really glad I chose Mrs. Eichten's class because you can tell she has a passion for her job and she really enjoys what she does. She did a great job making me feel welcome already and it's only the first day. Some of the students asked me if I was a mom because they said I looked familar, I thought that was kind of funny. I told them I was in college and I was going to become a teacher someday like Mrs.Eichten. One of the girls asked me if I was in Jr. High yet :) They are all very curious but I think that's what would make teaching the younger grades so much fun.

I went back after lunch in the afternoon and they first did math. They were working on counting money so I handed out and explained the worksheet to the student's after they finished up their tests while the teacher went over there tests. I realized that learning how to count money can be very challenging for some students and now that the coins are changing is extra hard to tell some of them apart, I know when I was in elementary we never worked with the half dollar coin and now they use that and they also try to work with different state coins so they are familar with all the types they might see. After math they did some social studies, they were learning about our United States capitol and some monuments in Washington D.C. They really enjoyed looking at the images of the monuments that Mrs. Eichten pulled up from the internet.
Overall I think my first day went pretty good. I'm glad I get to go for the entire day because I get to see what a full school day is like for the students and I get a taste of all the subjects. The kids asked me if I was coming back tomorrow and they were excited to hear that I would be there all week.