Observations
This past week in my class we were learning about safety rules. One of the activities we did with the kids was having them come up with their own safety rule and drawing a picture for it. It was awesome to see the imaginations of the kids minds work while they were telling us their safety rules. One of the rules a kid made up was, "Call 911 when someone is robbing the bank." I thought the kids did very well using the knowledge and imagination to make these safety rules for themselves.

Learning Experiences
While helping my kids in small groups, I am consistently reminding myself how I must be patient with my kids. They are very young and need help learning the easy things. Sometimes that can become frustrating because you want them to know it already but they just don't. My patience is becoming better and better every time I work with my kids. I love that while I am teaching my kids, I am also learning. I learn so much from those kids and it is great to spend time with them.

Reflections
We did not go field experience on Wednesday and even my pre-k kids noticed that I wasn't there. I thought it was so cute to hear my teacher tell me that my kids were freaking out because I was supposed to be there and I wasn't. It was cute to see that my kids are starting to learn the pattern of me being there one day and then not the next and they noticed that I was missing one day.

Stories
My kids have started a new thing where they fight over who gets to hold my hand while we walk down the hallway. They will get so annoyed with each other if they are not getting to hold my hand. I try my best to just not let any of them hold my hands so they do not get mad with each other but it never works. They just constantly fight over who can hold my hand until we arrive to the destination we are headed.

Observations:

This week with my class, I started noticing the different ways in which each of my kids learn. Many of them are visual learners but it shocked me to see the amount of kids that were auditory learners. When Mrs. Cathcart explains directions for some of the activities, it is obvious that some kids do not need to visually see what they need to do but understand by listening whole other kids need to see things. 

Learning experiences:

My kids were learning about their senses this past week. We did a really fun activity in which the kids had different containers with different smells in them. They were things such as Peanut butter, oranges, lemons, garlic and coffee beans. They kids had to guess what was in the container with using only one of their five senses, smell. It was very fun to watch their kids try and figure everything out, they had so much fun trying to guess what was in the container and they loved giving each other hints.

Reflections: 

Some of my kids are becoming attached to me. In teacher cadets we talked about the kids who do not get much attention at home will be the ones that start getting attached and I can tell this is true. Most of my kids that are getting attached to me are the ones who never have their reading log read or things like that. They bring home a reading log everyday and I check to see who's read and who hasn't and it is interesting to see how those two things compare. 

Stories:

One of my students painted me a picture the other day. It was so cute! She asked me how to spell my name and everything so she could put it on we paper. All of my kids always fight about who gets to sit beside me and it's so cute. They will fight about who gets to play with me also. 

My teacher told me the kids ask every single morning where I am, even the morning when I don't go because they do not understand that I come every other day, so they are always concerned when I am not there every morning. 

Observations
I am in a pre-k class so I have two teacher in my room. Both of my teacher are very nice and were very welcoming. They seem to really enjoy being with the kids and learning from them while teaching them. Mrs. Cathcart is my main teacher and she is very good with the kids. They all seem to really love and respect her. When she tells them to do something they will listen and she is also very patient with the kids.

Learning experiences
Mrs. Cathcart gave me the opportunity to work with a couple of the students at a time. We played a game that helped with knowing the first letters of words and finding those letter. It helped me realize you have to be very patient with the students because it sometimes takes them a little longer to get the answer. I also found it very interesting to watch how the two student interacted with each other while playing the game. The kids would look to each other for help but at the same time try and out do each other.

Reflections
I have grown so close to my kids in the past week! They got used to me being I  the classroom and started greeting me when I get there and all saying goodbye to me and hugging me when I leave. I am so exited about spending more time with my student and learning about them and the best ways each of them learn individually. A couple of my students are still not completely comfortable me yet but I am hoping in the next week or so they will to be excited when I come to help them learn.

Stories to share
I was walking in the hallway with my students, they were all lined up by the wall. One little boy in my class named John was talking to me. As we were talking we got interrupted by another little boy named Brayden who said "Megan Megan walk with me" after Brayden said this, John looked at Brayden and said, "Her name is not Megan, it's Miss. Megan." It was so cute excuse John was so serious but when he says his Ms they are not very clear so it made it really cute when he said Miss. Megan.