Last week, I traveled with a friend to an elementary school in Ithaca, and was able to observe in a Kindergarten classroom. Although it does not fall under my certifications, it was still a great experience. I was able to sit in and interact with the children of a Kindergarten classroom and even help out by sitting at a station! I was able to play Letter Bingo with a group of 7 little ones to enhance letter identification. It was great helping students with their sounds, letter pronunciation, and their identifying skills. The kids were so happy to interact with myself, and each other, and their teacher was amazing. The teacher of this classroom was very warm and had a very effective way of teaching her students. After lunch, a monitor told the teacher that the children were having a bad case of tattle tailing, and with that, their teacher decided to approach the situation in an effective way. My friend and I, were going to help her find a way to show the kids that tattle tailing is not a good thing, and in order to do that, we did a little role play. My friend and I, got in the middle of the classroom and acted out a situation, and from there the teacher showed the students how to solve the problem, without resorting to telling on each other. The children understood, and came up with new ways to express themselves without tattle tailing.
It was a great experience volunteering in the Kindergarten classroom, and it was a great contrast to the usual 4th and 5th grade classrooms I observe in weekly!
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