Last week was so busy but so much fun. We took the entire Kindergarten to a local Fire Station for our first field trip of the year. They gave us a tour of the station, allowed students to go inside the fire engines and ambulance. It was really cool to see how excited the students were to see their hometown hero's. I feel that seeing a firefighter and medic show techniques to fire safety and the how to keep yourself and others safe from fire. They also got to watch an Elmo safety video so they loved that.
Thursday we had conference from 8am-7pm, and Friday we were at school from 8:12:30 where we got ready for Quarter 2 and our Kindergarten team got together to plan for the quarter as well. It was a super long day but we had 17 wonderful conference. I was so happy to see every students family participate and understand how important their children's education is. I had my list of things that I came up for each student and I really felt a part of the conference and that my input was important. About three conferences in my mentor teacher said how about you run this conference as the parents walked it...I jumped right in and ended up doing the majority of the conference with Cheri's input at times as well. I really enjoyed the entire process and feel that I am ready for my own at one point. We had some difficult conferences with some parents not addressing their students struggles but it was all handled wonderfully. Today we began call backs where we have students stay later from 2-3:30 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays to get children to meet benchmarks and improve their math and literacy skills. I am going to do the math assessments on Wednesday afternoons so I am excited to see what that in tells.
I am excited to see what Quarter 2 will bring!!!
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