My first day back in 2016!
How exciting! 🙂

I really missed being in the classroom — but that’s something I pretty much always say when  I’m away from my class for a significant period of time.

Today was a pretty standard day. The students got a LOT of work done, which always surprises me. I feel like as adults, we tend to underestimate how much kids can do and get done.

My day was spent helping the students complete tasks and also helping prep for the activities for the next day and for the next week (because in a K/Gr 1 class — there’s always something to prep for!)

But apart from the prepping, my S.A. asked me if I wanted to read a story to the class in the morning and of course I had to say yes! I read this book called “The Hat” by Jan Brett. Apparently, it was in relation to the book “The Mittens”, that they read a few days ago. It was great being in that “teacher” position again and I think that it’s a great way for the students to continuously see me as a teacher and not as a helper. I wasn’t fully prepared with a “lesson plan” for the book reading, and I only read it probably, a few minutes before I had to read it to the class — so I wasn’t the most prepared with questions. But I still think it went well considering that it was impromptu!

I was able to begin planning (sort of) my lesson plans for my long practicum today too — YAY! 🙂
I was able to sit down and plan with my S.A. after school today to discuss possible “themes” and ideas that I would be covering during the 10 weeks and I think it’s going to be so great. I’m really excited to start planning for the lessons and activities and I really hope that my students will have fun and learn a lot from them. The “themes” are all really fun and pretty broad, so it’ll be exciting to come up with ideas for them.

OH! Today, I also received my first ever “Christmas gift” from a student. It wasn’t anything much, but it was still really sweet that she thought of me to give me the gift 🙂