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Clinical Field Experience B: Classroom Routines and Activities Jasmine A. Kight College of Education, Grand Canyon University ECE-360 Professor Sherbon February 03, 2024

Clinical Field Experience B: Classroom Routines and Activities Within my field experience I had the pleasure of observing Mrs. Ivey and her paraprofessional Mrs. Robinson. The classroom teachers are very knowledgeable and a ray of sunshine to every student walking through the door to the room. Their classroom routine for the day consisted of student’s arrival, they knew where their bookbags went, lunchbox to their cubby, straight to the restroom, wash hands and do their opening activity. Their activity was a puzzle on the table which allowed all students to arrive and get ready to transition over to the cafeteria for breakfast. When the students arrived, however, I noticed Mrs. Ivey standing at the door allowing her students to pick how they wanted to be greeted. After breakfast, students would get another restroom break/wash hands before morning meeting on the rug. Their morning meeting consisted of talking about the calendar, the months, singing songs, and a go noodle to get ready to transition to centers. Students were able to pick a center such as building with blocks, painting, housekeeping, potato heads, playing with toys on the rug. Teachers would normally have students clean up at this time to get ready for outdoor playtime, but this morning the temperature was 35 degrees and our school rule “magic number” to go outside to play is 40 degrees, so in this case students got a longer center play time. Around 10:20, students clean up, use the restroom/wash hands, and have a seat on the rug to get ready for sharing time before lunch. After lunch, we transition back to the room to use the restroom again, have story time to get ready for rest and relaxation time for students in which is two hours. Rest time ends at 1:30, students use the restroom/wash hands and if the weather permits outside recess playtime. Some parents are picking up their children at this point. To end the day, we came back inside from outside recess, used the restroom/wash hands to have snack. After snack, the students are sitting on the rug watching the board to get ready to leave for the day as parents start to trickle in to get their loved ones for the day. While discussing routines with Mrs. Ivey, she is firm with a routine schedule. With weather conditions that we obviously cannot control today was

extra center time, in some cases, we may do indoor activities such as pulling out the gym mat play, dance to go noodles, skits, stretches, aerobics, or even games. As with all things pertaining to young children, they are flexible in their planning, and schedules may have to change to accommodate the children’s needs. Mrs. Ivey uses Group Me for her way of communicating with parents and the way that parents communicate with her or by calling the school. I absolutely loved the experience with the students and teachers. During sharing time students talk about their families, what they had for dinner or share their favorite toy from home. Within the classroom, they have displayed on the walls a family project from all their students, in which they have 12 students and each project being unique. It showed pictures of people who were in their family in their home, trees were decorated in their own way. This was a great way to show students the different families and who lived at home with them. In my observation, as mentioned above, Mrs. Ivey letting the students pick how they wanted to be greeted at the door. I want to incorporate something like this in my future classroom. You were not only welcoming the students with a smile, but students were able to choose their non-verbal positive interaction such as dabbing, dancing, thumbs up, hug, fist pump. This helps create a positive classroom climate (Cook, n.d.). Collaborating with families is going to be one of my top priorities. Communication is the key to a successful relationship. I would pick class dojo for my communication app to communicate with parents to send pictures, communicate changes, sending home papers in their parent/teacher communication folder, sending home a monthly newsletter. I want to encourage family involvement such as volunteering within the classroom, going to lunch to eat with their child, reading stories to the children, cooking food, and sharing it with the children that is their favorite traditional culture food, chaperoning during school events (Annie E Casey Foundation, 2023). I want my kids to learn by involving community members, so they have as many hands-on learning as possible. Some kids, even myself as a kid, learn better with hands on. Family matters and involving families is important to not only the child, but the teacher, too. We all know the saying about the an

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