ECE with Ms. Christine

I don't have the right words to express how amazing the experience was that I had as pre-service practicum student.  I was placed in a Kindergarten classroom in an urban school.  This school is an International Baccalaureate school.  They are working to do some amazing things and my mentor teacher was probably the best match that I could have ever been given.  God definitely blessed me when I was given this mentor teacher. My mentor teacher is probably the most positive person I have ever met.  Which was really nice because I try to stay positive and happy but I know that there are times when I'm not.  From the first moment when I met her I knew that she was going to be very encouraging towards me.  This was so true same for my supervisor.  My first lessons with the students focused on teaching them social emotional skills and I taught them about being a "bucket filler" and "speaking giraffe."  I learned a lot about speaking giraffe myself....

I just wanted to check in quickly tonight and say that I'm alive and I survived my first semester of pre service teaching and this semester.  I have about a million things that I want to blog about that have happened and I hope to do a good amount of blogging while I'm off on break.  Student teaching was an amazing experience with the most amazing mentor teacher that I could ask for.  And I got married this semester!!!!!! So much to talk about.  I hope everything is good with everyone who may be reading and I will post again soon!