I am enjoying being in an actual classroom setting.  Getting hands on experience like this is helping me to keep pushing for my end goal.  Teaching is something I have wanted to do for a while and being in an actual classroom shows me that I am headed toward a career I will love.  The students are great and each have their own littler personality.  No one child is the same.  There can be some behavior issues at times but I am learning different ways to deal with this.  Behavior management is definitely something I need to work on.

Today we took a trip to the Pumpkin patch.  This was my first time seeing it from a teachers point of view.  It is a little scary being in such an open environment with so many children.  Having the parents there was very helpful.  All of the children had a wonderful time.

I started my first day of Practicum at Glencoe Elementary today.  I was very nervous and did not quite know what to expect.  Kindergarten is a lot of fun.  When I arrived my ct Mrs. Jones had a little area set up for me.  She had some sentence strips laid out for me.  When the children were done coloring and cutting out their pictures for their hats I would be taking the sentence strips and their pictures and making hats for each student.  This was a great way for me to get to speak with each child one and one and get to know their names.  I spent the rest of the day just observing.  I came to realize that I will need to freshen up on how we say some words such as a and the.  I am so excited to spend the next two months here getting to know the students and grow as a teacher.