Thursday October 25th was my first day to work in Mrs. Almond's and Mrs. Greenfield's classroom at Iron Springs Elementary.
I arrived at 1:30 in Mrs. Almond's fourth grade class, just in time for the whole school to go to the gym for the Red Ribbon Week assembly. The gym was completely full of children sitting on the floor. The teachers were very organized in how to best make the whole assembly work. The studentss were so good sitting quietly while listening to the police officers and watching their police dogs.
After the assembly we went back to the classroom and I graded math tests while the students had a short recess until 2:30.
At 2:30 I headed to Mrs. Greenfield's second grade classroom. As Mrs. Greenfield taught the math lesson, I walked around the classroom and helped students who needed individual help with the math assignment.
At 3:00 Mrs. Asay's second grade class came into Mrs. Greenfield's classroom to have a math competition. Both classrooms lined up on each side of the room. One student from each class would come to the front and were asked a math question... "What is 9+6?" the first one to answer got back in line and the child who lost sat down. The classes keep going around until one class was all sitting down. The class with students still standing was the winning class. Mrs. Greenfields class won two rounds. The students loved it and I could tell that they work hard to learn their addition facts.
At 3:30 Mrs. Greenfield had the students clean up their desks and called the tables that were ready to go get their backpacks and sit on the rug. She talked to them for a minute and then excused them to go home.
My first day of volunteering in the classroom was a blast, and the students were so fun and the teachers were amazing. I am excited for the things I will learn over the next few months working in their classrooms that I can take with me that will help me be the best teacher I can be.
