In the Classroom...

So as some may know, I have been working in a first grade classroom for the past month. It has gone by so fast, but I am learning so much and loving it! I have a lot of fun just being in front of the kids and acting like a complete goof...I hope they enjoy it too! :)

For the past month, my partner and I have been teaching a unit on Maps. We started big picture with the world and are now all the way down to their classroom. We used Google Earth and Google Maps and the kids were absolutely fascinated with it! It was so much fun showing them all around the world. It was too funny because I showed the student's the outside of their school with google maps and they all got so excited. It was a perfect tie-in too because one of the students asked if we could see the classroom, but that was the next activity planned was making a map of the classroom! It worked perfectly.

There have also been some pretty funny moments in the classroom too. One of the first days I was there, one girl was getting into all kinds of trouble, so I asked her to sit down when she was wondering the classroom. She was shocked that I knew her name, after having heard it 20 times from the teacher. She asked me if I knew her last name too and she was pretty disappointed when I fell short!

We also gave a reading test to the students yesterday and the kids had to use vocabulary words in a sentence. One of the words was 'huge' and a little girl made the sentence: My mom's feet are huge. I definitely laughed a little when she turned in test...too funny. The second sentence she actually made was with the word needed: My grandpa needed to stop smoking. Too funny!

It has really been a lot of fun, lots of work...tons of work actually, but truely a great learning experience. One more semester and then I get a classroom of my own! YAY!! :)