I have officially survived my first day of kindergarten. It was a rough one, and I had to come home and have a good cry about it all. My morning group is going to be the most challenging behaviorally. The problem today, though, was in my time-watching. I didn't realize what time it was until I looked up at the clock and saw that it was 10 minutes past the time I was supposed to have walked the kids down to meet their parents. They were right in the middle of an art project and I had to recruit another teacher and parent to help me round them up and get them down to the door 20 minutes late. It was utter chaos. Not the best first impression : (
So, after my 10 minute lunch break spent getting ready for my next class, I had a student who was bawling when his mom left. He cried so hard that he threw up all over in the mud room. Luckily for me we have a wonderful principal who happened to be there at the time and he ended up cleaning the whole thing up and taking the boy to the office where he got settled down and enjoyed the rest of the day as if nothing had happened. I did improve my presentation and timing for my PM class, but wish I could have a do-over in the AM.
Other than that, it's simply the stress and frustration of realizing how long it will be before the kids know how to behave in the classroom and what to do. Unfortunately, I am still learning the best way to teach all of those things, so I hope it all turns out in the end.
7 comments:
Oh man, what a day! I'm SURE you will do fabulous and tomorrow will be a better day. Good luck!
They are lucky to have you, Em! Things will just get better from here :) You are going to be a fabulous teacher, just like they are going to be fabulous students (I hope) but they may take a little longer than you to get there!
Let me know how I can help in or out of the classroom. I'm always her and on the bright side, next week is only 4 days!
sorry, typo..I'm always here!
The first day is always the hardest. Things always go different with the first class. They are the experiment.After you learn from them you always do better with the second class. You will do great and it will get easier. Good Luck. Let me know if you need anything.
I'm sure the parents didn't think it was as bad as you did. I've learned with the behavor thing that it takes until Jan. to get all the kids into the swing of things. There is always a few pushing the limits and seeing what they can get away with. Just be consistant and always discipline with a smile:) even though you want to scream! They know when they're in trouble. but I'm sure you know all of this and more your amazing and it just gets easier!
Poor Em! I seriously could not teach kindergarten. I'm shooting for 3rd or 4th grade, any younger and I wouldn't be worth anything.
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