First Meeting

Driving to the school I was extremely excited, I absolutely love working with children and I was extremely eager to meet new children I would be working with. When I pulled up to the school it took me a little while to find the front door. While looking for that door I was able to get a feel of the neighborhood. It was very quiet and I saw barely any children or parents. The school was surrounded by houses and it was a very small building. There didn’t seem to be a very big area for the children to have recess and I don’t remember seeing a playground which I thought was strange. When I finally was able to find the door and walk inside I became very excited knowing one day I will be working in a school like this as the teacher. I looked all around and the walls were covered with amazing art. Painted on the walls were cartoons from famous children stories and another wall was painted as the sea. Just being able to see that made me even more comfortable which I assume does the same thing for the children. All of a sudden these little children start walking by me. Some children would just stare, some would smile at me and some would even say hi. Right there I realized I knew I would be very happy being a teacher and be able to work with children like this for the rest of my life. But as I stood there I observed what the children were doing and what the teacher was doing. The children would stay in two lines waiting for their teacher to allow them into the room. I can’t wait to have my 20-30 students waiting in line to come into my classroom to learn.
Unfortunately there was an incident over the weekend and everyone was a little behind schedule. We learned about what we would be doing and how we will be doing it. It was a lot all at once but I know overtime it will become much easier. After hearing what we will be doing and finding out what rooms and what children we would be working with we were able to meet our children and the teachers. I was able to meet my Kindergarten children but only for about a minute so I wasn’t really able to interact with them. I was able though to meet my first grade children and teacher. The teacher seemed very nice and excited about the help I would be giving to her. I was also able to meet the two boys I will be working with and they are great. They had so much to share with me and I loved listening to them. I am extremely excited about going back and being able to work with them.

Bio

My name is Elizabeth and I am a sophmore at Rhode Island College. I just transfered in and I'm working to get into the Elementary Ed major. I absolutely love working with kids. This semester has started off as a hard semester but I am starting to get into a routine. Outside of school I am usually working (with kids and in retail). When I'm not working or doing school stuff I am usually out with my friends just enjoying life.