I had a good first week at the school. I really am grateful that I had the time to work with my CT and get to know her before the children came back. However, I was amazed by how many other things we had to attend and do and what little bit of time we actually had in the classroom. Centerville Elementary does their 7 hours of professional development during their pre-planning week so Tuesday was seminars all day and left no time for working in the classroom. I can't imagine trying to get all of that done by yourself. Hopefully I was a help to getting the classroom done in time. I had a lot of fun doing the wall outside of the classroom. My teacher loves frogs and I love frogs too so we did a frog theme. It said "Hop into First Grade". I made frog cut outs and put their children's names on them. It was nice to do something creative again! I will try to take a picture and post it.
Everyone at the school is very friendly and helpful. Everyone is constantly asking how I am doing and if there is anything they can do to help. There was even one teacher in a completely different grade that found a book called "First-Year Teachers Survival Kit" and she gave it to me thinking it might help me when I start teaching. I was also amazed by how close all of the first grade teachers are. They plan all their lessons together and use all the same type of discipline plans as each other in the classroom.
My CT went over what lessons we will be covering this week, but most of the first week will just be establishing rules and procedures. This is why I think it does make it a little bit more tricky trying to do student teaching in the Fall. Our third week in, when we are suppose to start teaching, is when the first lessons really begin. I am excited though and am sure it will work out just fine. My CT has been teaching for 15 years and had a Regent student intern two years ago so she already knows well how it all works and what is expected.
I know that many schools had open house this past week, but my school stopped doing it that way. They did have a "Meet and Greet" on Friday for kindergarten and all new students so they can see the layout of the school and all. However, we did have a couple of students come into the classroom and it was nice getting to meet them and introduce myself to the parents. Next week the school has open house for 3-5 grades, and the following week they have open house for k-2. I am also excited about seeing exactly how open house is run and what exactly the teacher does at it.
I am just trying to take each day one step at a time and I know that God will help me prevail!
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I've been finding the same thing at my school with everyone being helpful and the teachers working so well together. It really amazes me. I hope and pray that when I start teaching I will be at a school like that.
Interesting that you didn't have an open house for parents, most schools do. It sounds like God has surrounded you with caring professionals. That was really nice of that teacher to give you a book!
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