I LOVE THURSDAYS because I get to spend it in my Kindergarten/Grade 1 classroom.
It actually IS a jungle in there! (LITERALLY) The classroom, when I walked in, was decorated to look like a jungle. It was awesome! They had vines hanging from the ceiling, paper cut outs of trees, leaves, etc. It was actually really really cool. Parent volunteers decorated the classroom like a jungle because the students are going on a field trip on Wednesday (aww boo I won’t be there!) to watch a play adapted from the book “Where the wild things are”.

The students were all so excited to see me 🙂 Which made me feel really welcome and appreciated. I got a lot of hugs in the morning <3

Today was a more interesting day. A lot of different behaviours popped out today so it was pretty difficult 🙁 But I’m pretty glad that I was able to see a (what I think is a) “BAD DAY”. I could also see how the teacher handled the situations, which was really educational to see.

They worked on a lot of different “Worksheets” today. So they did a LOT of work and were pretty productive. They mostly worked on language arts, filling out worksheets about the different gingerbread stories they’ve been reading over the past week apparently. I didn’t really see a lot of purpose of doing two separate worksheets on, for what I think, looks like the same thing. But I guess that’s something I’ll need to ask my S.A. next week!

One thing that I did observe that I really liked was how my S.A. was making a book for another student. That student’s grandmother passed away a few weeks ago, so he’s been gone from school for about two weeks. All the students were asked to write a note (with help from their teachers of course) for the student. Their words of encouragement were all really nice and I thought my S.A. turned this into such a great learning experience (socially and emotionally) as well for the students. My favourite one I read was “I hope you know, that I’m sad for you”… I thought that was such a great example of empathy.