bubbaray
12-10-2009, 06:09 PM
I just got home from being a parent helper at Kindergarten Christmas craft day. Verry interesting! And, OMG, I could never in a million years be a Kindergarten teacher. (a) I am too tall and those fricken fracken tables are too short! (b) 18 5yos. OMG. Shoot me now.
It was fun, though. We were invited to bring a craft, which I did. Lame-oh foam stickers from Michaels in Christmas theme and general holiday theme (I didn't know if there might be kids who didn't celebrate Christmas as we live in quite a diverse area). There were 3 other moms and 1 dad (yeah him!), noone else brought a craft. So, I earned brownie points for that, teacher was happy with me! :thumbsup: I think my choice of craft was appropriate for the skill level of most of the kids (I thought it would be too basic, but it was fine) -- I don't think they thought it was lame at all.
I had my parent teacher conference yesterday (should update that thread on how it went) and one of the issues was the wide array of skills in the group. No $h!t, skippy. I was quite stunned. I mean, this is language immersion and the district is quite up front that it is not an appropriate program for students requiring special needs assistance (there isn't much of that even in the English program, but that's a different issue). I was quite shocked at the difference in even basic spoken ability of some kids. Most of the kids will end up being fluent in 3 languages (home language, French & English), but it wasn't that. I couldn't even understand a few of the kids. I now understand when the SLP says DD#1 is age appropriate.
Anyway, it was fun. Definitely not scrapping the lawyer gig for teaching anytime this lifetime, but I can do it a couple times a year. It would have been nice if I could have done 100% of my instructions in French, but oh well. I did OK. There was more English than usual because all the communication with the parents was in English.
It was fun, though. We were invited to bring a craft, which I did. Lame-oh foam stickers from Michaels in Christmas theme and general holiday theme (I didn't know if there might be kids who didn't celebrate Christmas as we live in quite a diverse area). There were 3 other moms and 1 dad (yeah him!), noone else brought a craft. So, I earned brownie points for that, teacher was happy with me! :thumbsup: I think my choice of craft was appropriate for the skill level of most of the kids (I thought it would be too basic, but it was fine) -- I don't think they thought it was lame at all.
I had my parent teacher conference yesterday (should update that thread on how it went) and one of the issues was the wide array of skills in the group. No $h!t, skippy. I was quite stunned. I mean, this is language immersion and the district is quite up front that it is not an appropriate program for students requiring special needs assistance (there isn't much of that even in the English program, but that's a different issue). I was quite shocked at the difference in even basic spoken ability of some kids. Most of the kids will end up being fluent in 3 languages (home language, French & English), but it wasn't that. I couldn't even understand a few of the kids. I now understand when the SLP says DD#1 is age appropriate.
Anyway, it was fun. Definitely not scrapping the lawyer gig for teaching anytime this lifetime, but I can do it a couple times a year. It would have been nice if I could have done 100% of my instructions in French, but oh well. I did OK. There was more English than usual because all the communication with the parents was in English.