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Silver Wing Elementary is a school in the Chula Vista Elementary School District. They function under 3 overarching rules: Be respectful, be responsible, and be safe. They are committed to creating a nurturing yet challenging environment where all participants are valued and respected.
I am excited to meet all the kids that I will be working with. Although I am a pretty shy person when it comes to meeting new people, I hope I am able to find comfort in the classroom and easily adapt to it. A skill I hope to apply is my organization skills. I have a feeling that I will be dealing with paperwork, so I hope to use my organization skills to my advantage.
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Photo Essay
When I started every morning, all the interns and I had to sign in to show that we were volunteers. We would sign in and then we would get a volunteer pass from the secretary after we had signed in.
Here is my 1st grade classroom. School didn't start until 8:30 and I started at 8:00, so I had time to make copies and set up the classroom with worksheets we would be using that day.
On the first week of internships, my mentor had missed the last day of the week and since I was still fairly new, she had assigned me a task. I had to make around 45 of these portfolios so that the kids could have a place to store all the work they completed this year. The tabs inside of the portfolio were journals, narrative writing, informative writing, math, and opinion writing.
The students had this thing called "May-do's". In this photo, a student and I were doing Math May-do's. What that is is that the students had around 10-15 minutes to work on any math they chose to do. They could work on math on the computer or they could work on math games that my mentor had created, such as the one in the photo.
On the second week of internships, a teacher had asked the other interns and I to make emoji posters that they would be using for a Volunteer Luncheon they were going to be having in the upcoming weeks.
This sitting area is where the other interns and I ate lunch when it was sunny outside. We would have a lot of funny conversations, and it was nice just talking to the other interns and seeing what they've been up to in their classrooms.
This was taken on the last falcon rally of the school year. At the falcon rally, they hand out certificates to students who've demonstrated growth in their learning. In this photo, they are singing the falcon song which is in tune to We Are The Champions.
The kids were watching a short video from Mo Willems' Pigeon and Pals DVD. They've already watched it before, but since I was new to the class, my mentor decided to show it to them again so I could watch it as well.
A couple of the other interns and I taking a picture with props at the Volunteer Luncheon. The emoji posters in the background were also made by us.
The kids went around the classroom asking 10 of their peers what their favorite hobby is: Computer, Sports, or Reading. They then answered questions in their math book based off of the data they received.
On the last week of school, I recorded the students saying what their favorite part of 1st grade is and then complied it altogether to create my internship project.
My mentor had these goodbye sayings on her door so that when the school day was over she could read them to the kids as they were walking out the door to meet their parents. My favorite one is "In a while, Crocodile."
