Teacherrriffic!

This semester, I'm in my elementary "block," which is basically Texas State slang for pre-student teaching. Twice a week, I spend half a day at lecture, and the other half of the day I work as an intern in a Kindergarten class. Needless to say, I am absolutely in LOVE with kindergarten.

My favorite thing in Kindergarten is watching the reading process unfold... in just the two months I've spent in Ms. Black's class the kids have grown SO much. It's amazing!
















Last week I had an opportunity to read a book to the class as part of a Read-Aloud Lesson... I was observed the whole time, and I was REALLY nervous... but the second I got the kids attention I lost all the butterflies. The kids were awesome... I read the book- Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gilman, if you have kids & you don't have that book--- you are missing out! The lesson was all about making predictions and the repetitions that forshadowed them... the book is just plain fun to read! Before I could turn each page the kids were raising their hands like there was a grand prize involved saying, "Oooo Oooo Miss Edwards I know I knowwww!!!!!!!" BUT I only called on quiet friends with "bubbles" in their mouths! They figured this out and it was contagious... there were kids all over the colored carpet up on the tops of their knees(they couldn't bare sitting on their bottoms, and of course the extra boost their knees gave them made them much more visible) with BIG bubbles in their mouths shaking their hands WILDLY at me. I looked at them and I remembered being in their shoes, wishing SO badly that the teacher would call on me because I absolutely positively KNEW the answer. These days, the biggest reward is sitting in the special chair on the other side of the carpet. :)

I'll end with this....

The Top Three Things most interesting Kindergarten stories of the week.

1. I was giving a reading evaluation... the little girl was on FIRE with the capital letters.... then we get to lower case.. and she says to me "haha silly goose... whoever wrote this "p" made it upside backwards.... it was a "q"

2. A little boy slashed his finger with some scissors... pretty badly. As his finger was gushing blood I couldn't get the paper towel off and get the band aide on fast enough. As he was blubbering in pain... he looks up at me... and through the tears screams into my face... "WhyYYyy?" A memorable "first" for me.

3. Ms. Black is doing a lesson about germs... ... she let one kid stick his hand in a pan of flour, shake hands with someone and so on -&- so forth. The kids are giving pretty good responses about getting rid of germs... "You should wash your hands more..." "Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze..." then comes the shocker.... "If you build up lots of white blood cells you can fight the infection and you won't be sick anymore!" .....

Did I mention I love Kindergarten?