Sunday, October 31, 2010
Kindergartener's With iPods?
I had a very interesting start to my field experience. My first day I had a substitute, so I had to hold off the many questions that I had for my CT for another day. I also found out that my classroom was somewhat of a pull-out program that was all ELL students. This was another curveball for me, but I know that it will be a good experience. The first few days were a bit overwhelming just trying to get the feel of the classroom, but I'm starting to get more comfortable. The children do many different activities, one of them using iPods as a medium. Every Tuesday and Thursday they get to use applications on iPods that can help them with letters, sounds, and words. I was amazed by this. I would have loved to use an iPod Touch when I was in Kindergarten. I already had to be the bad guy once. We did an M&M activity and my CT told me that if they ate more than one at a time or didn't follow other directions of the activity, I would have to throw their M&M's away. Sure enough one little girl went overboard and ate 3, one right after the other. Do you know hard hard it is to throw away a Kindergartener's candy? Other than that the children have been pretty cooperative. I already know that I'm really going to miss seeing them every day when this is over.
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