First Week in the field!

This past Tuesday was our first day out in the classrooms. I am in a second grade class with my old second grade teacher which is extremely fun. When I go to my class, they are working on math which is good because I love math! My teacher is a fun loving, caring, and involved teacher. She likes to get her students involved with the lessons, whether it is coming up to the board or writing the answer on their slate. Her classroom is decorated with student work everywhere, pictures of past classes, pictures of the students and their families, and what they are working on it class. Something that I really like about her class is their math routine when they get back from lunch. The students sit on the carpet and they add a straw for each day of school, they add today's date to the calendar and then do the days in school out of money. I really like this for two reasons. 1.) When I was in kindergarten and second grade we did this everyday so it brings back those memories. 2.) It involves life skills, like counting money, and math skills.
On my first day visiting I was just watching as they prepared for their math test by reviewing with their slates. If a student did not get the problem right she had them explain how they arrived at that answer and then had a classmate who got the answer right explain what their thought process was. I thought this was really cool because sometimes you learn better from your friends cause they may say it differently then the teacher.
On my second day visiting I actually got to interact with the students. They were doing a math lesson where they had to go find objects in the room and measure them in inches, feet, centimeters and millimeters. I was walking from group to group to make sure they were doing the right things. It was very easy for them to get the measurements mixed up because they were just learning them.
I never knew how hard it was to look professional until field experience because I thought I had professional looking clothes but only a few. It's always a hard decision on what to wear to field experience because as much as I would like to wear jeans every day, I can't.
I don't have any stories from the field yet but I am sure I will soon!