Teaching

Friday November 5^th, 2010

Today was my day to teach pre-school. It just so happened that Fridays we do a letter and we were in the middle section of the alphabet. So I taught the letter “K”. I gave a brief lesson and then split the kids up into three groups; writing, recognition and creativity. Group 1 drew K on dry erase boards, which in turn lead to coloring their fingernails with the markers. Group two had wooden blocks with 90% of them having the letter K on them on a side. We shook the box of blocks up and threw them on the table for them to find the blocks with K on them. Group three had pre drawn K’s to decorate with colors, glitters and stickers. Of coarse the kids all loved the creative station best, so did I. So many of the kids ended up with glitter all over their faces, they found it so amusing, and… so did I.

The other half of my class was song and dance. Of coarse I wished I could get crazy with them but I’ve learned that the key to success with them is keeping it simple. I taught them “Head, shoulders, knees and toes” and “the hokey pokey”. Once again they were harder to teach because every country seems to know the gist of the same song but everyone does a different version. It worked out though. We did them both many of times until we got the hang of it. It was a successful day of being teacher.