Today was a pretty weird/crazy day!
I thought that the students were pretty restless the entire day, so I honestly, was pretty nervous about doing my lesson later in the afternoon. (Spoiler alert: It all works out well!)

I read the students a book in the morning called Counting Animals. It was an interesting book and something that I probably wouldn’t read again if given that opportunity. It was a book that was all about counting to 100. 100 bears, 100 rabbits, 100 bugs, 100 birds, 100 pigs…  The students were really engaged at first, but after the 100 bears and the 100 rabbits — I could tell that they’ve pretty much had it. So I started counting by 10’s instead to get through the book. The book also had “mini dialogues” happening around saying things like “Can you see the strawberry?” “Find the blue egg” — so it was pretty much like a look & find book as well. I love look and find books, but having a class of 15 students look for a small small item in a small book — not the most fun.

A bright spot in the morning was taking the students to gym class. For the past few classes, I’ve been struggling to get them to be quiet as they walked to gym — and today they FINALLY were! They were really quiet and polite and great. I was really proud of them, and myself. I told them to be quiet and sneaky like a ninja! And also, if I hear anyone making noise, we’re going back to the classroom. It worked! Wohoo!

Most of the students had Hot Lunch today which was exciting (for them). They had hotdogs and chocolate milk, and regular milk, and juice, and cookies, and donuts, and fruit cups, and chips. A very exciting lunch for my kindergarten/grade 1s!

After lunch, I did my lesson! I read the book Click Clack Moo! It’s a funny story about cows that type! At first I was a bit worried when some students told me that they’ve already read this book or they’ve already watched it (I didn’t even know it had a show). But I thought that it went well. The students were engaged and they thought it was funny so that was good! The activities afterwards went good too. The Grade 1s are writing so well lately. I feel like every time I’m there, their writing is getting better and better! So are the K’s, they are becoming much more independent with their tasks. It’s so great to see their growth 🙂 It makes me even more excited for the long practicum!

P.S. The students got tattoo mustaches !!! (M for Magic Mustaches!) — It’s always a great silly funny wonderful time in Kindergarten/Grade 1!