Another great day at my field experience! Today we got to help out in the Kindergarten classroom as well as in the grade 5 classroom. We got to experience many new things we were not expecting!
The teacher and support staff at the school are very welcoming and friendly! The teachers are wanting us to get the best experience in a school setting as possible. Many people who come into the school throughout the week to help students succeed. Support staff to help students with speech, attitudes, behaviour and any other things that hold back students from doing their best. Our placement teacher uses most of these support staff for students in her classroom, but it just depends on the students how much you utilize this support. It is awesome they have so many people to help support the students who need extra support in the school! I think the school has a very strong connection to their community. The school has its parish right across the street, so they are very closely connected to the church. Our placement teacher told us they have worships every Wednesday. They have been collecting funds for father because he doesn’t take a wage from the school. Father attends all assemblies and any other important events happening at the school. The school and church are closely connected. Also, in grade 5, they had one of the parents of a student come in to do a presentation to the kids about Elections Canada because they are learning about the elections in Social Studies. This was a super great way to connect the learning done in class to reality. Another community connection would be the grade 5 class preforming their Thriller dance somewhere in the community. I mentioned this last week but this is a fantastic way to connect the students to their community. We got to meet the Kindergarten class and their grandparents today! The students brought ingredients to make vegetable soup and fruit salad for their grandparents. The students sang some songs and enjoyed the delicious food they made in class with their grandparents at the end of the day. The Kindergarten teacher told us she does this every year because she thinks it is important for the grandparents to be recognized for the upbringing of the child too. This was a great experience for the children because it gives them a chance to show their grandparents their classroom and the things they have learned so far in Kindergarten. This school is a happy, fun, exciting place for students to learn. The school environment and the community around them is a positive place. It is import to have positive, and enthusiastic people in a school to make the school experience the best it can be. I think the students at this school have a great school environment and a pretty fantastic group of people education them! ~Karlee
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWeekly posts about my field experiences in the classroom. ArchivesPictures of the Classroom
|