Final Weeks of Field Experience

These past two weeks, I have been all over the place....and what a joy it has been. I am so proud of ALL of my young ladies. I had the priviledge of seeing Cortney teach a wonderful lesson on South Carolina symbols. It was really neat to see her practice lesson put into the "real" classroom. Excellent work!

I visited Kareen at Bethel, and she was teaching prepositions of place with three dimensional shapes while playing "Simon Says" at the same time! The kids LOVED IT!I made my way over to Mauldin Elementary, and spied on Chloe working with a small group of advanced kindergarten students. They were "playing" BINGO with site words.

Somewhere in the midst of it all, we took a FANTASTICALLY FUN trip to the Childrens Museum of the Upstate with our pen pals. What an exhaustingly fun day!

In the last few days, I had the pleasure of taking a class photo with Alex and her fun little 2nd graders.

I also got to see Maddy teaching kindergarteners a math lesson about subtraction. She read a book about Froggy going to camp. Then, the kids drew a pond with grass on a big piece of paper. Maddy told "mini stories" about how many frogs were in the pond - and then jumped out. The kids reinacted the story with their drawings to learn subtraction!

Finally, I visited Kate in the library where she was working with a small group of students using whiteboards to review math concepts. Such a natural teacher!

Week 5 Field Experience

Sorry this post is soooooooooooooooooooooo late! - This week, I saw Leigh Anne teach the most amazing lesson about probability. She built a wonderful flipchart for the promethean board, and her students were so actively participating. Her cooperating teacher had teh most wonderful sings to say about her. Great Job Leigh Anne!

I also went to visit Chelsey at Hillcrest. What a fun experience. She has a small, but fantastic group of students who are sweet, energetic and filled with positive energy. What a great way to start her day!

But...the absolute BEST part of this week was Friday! - All of my girls were together again. It was so nice to catch up and to see everyone again. We set a date for the banquet, May 17th and are really looking forward to our field trip to the Children's Museum after Spring Break!

Happy Times!

Week 4 Field Experience

Well, this week did NOT start off well... for me anyway.... I spent Mon-Wed fighting the stomach flu. When I was back and kicking on Thursday, I found my way back to Mauldin Elementary School where I finally got to see Dru with her cutie-pie kindergarteners. She was busy helping small groups work on writing the letter "N." On my way over to see Kate, I saw Alex reading a story to her second graders. As I was snooping, I think it was about the salty oceans coming from soneone's tears??? - That's what you get when you just "eavesdrop." I got to see Kate work one-on-two with two of her young second graders who needed special help while the rest of the class was MAP testing. On my way out, I saw Meghan reading in the hall with a little friend, and I spied Allison working in the library with another little friend. - What a great visit from afar! Friday took me to Sara Collins Elementary where I saw Mrs and Miss Renwick teaching Kindergarten. It was hard to tell which one was the "real" teacher. Elizabeth - you are such a NATURAL in the classroom. It was GREAT!! and then.....oh boy oh boy oh boy.... I got to sing the "What are you wearing song!" Yippee!!