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Personal Narrative: My First Day At Goddard School

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Today was my first day at Goddard School as a practicum teacher. The day started just like any ordinary school day, with student drop off. During the summer each classroom gets a new class of students, the students coming in for the summer are the same students that the teachers will have during the next school year give or take a few. During drop off parents are to walk their students to their classrooms. At this time Ms. Danielle, Ms. Stephanie and myself all introduced ourselves to the students and their family members. We told them how excited we were for the summer and couldn’t wait to get to know them. After the student is ready and set they are to say goodbye to their parents. At Goddard they call this pushing your parent out. Students …show more content…

Once the students arrived and pushed their parents out they were given center options. Each day the centers were different because Ms. Danielle wanted to introduce new center toys and options and give the students a variety of options. After centers Ms. Danielle assigned students a spot on the reading rug she called these picture spots because on the carpet were different pictures. To assign each students picture spot she turned it in a game it was an I spy game. Ms. Danielle would call out the student’s name and then show them a card. On the card was their picture spot and the students had to walk around the rug and find their spot. Once they found their spot miss Danielle gave them the card. Once every student found their spot Ms. Danielle collected the cards and I hung them up during nap time on the wall to remind students if they ever forgot where they were supposed to sit. While Ms. Danielle read to the students Ms. Stephanie and I prepared lunch. When story time was over students were dismissed to wash hand, and find a seat for lunch. After lunch some students were picked up while others were to

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