Day Care Day 10

Today, when I walked into the classroom, there was a room full of unknown children. These were children from a younger class, and they were way younger than the ones that I am use to dealing with. These children were more all over the place than the older ones. They were more harder to tame, they wanted to do more than one thing at one time. These children seemed to never get tired, they would leave from doing one thing to another within a matter of seconds.

There was a group of children huddle around one of the student teachers. Then as I focused on the group a little more, I realized that they were listening to her read. Their was one girl that was playing in the student teachers hair while she listened really hard to the teacher read the story. Then other boys and girls that were around the student teacher were engaging in the story, they seemed to have known the story by heart. Some of the famous line in the book that was easy for them to remember they said it.

Then, after watching another little girl dress up as a princess, I watched her build a little castle to match the idea she had going in her head. I walked up to her and started to try to have conversation. I came up to her and asked her of her name, the first few times she ignored me and told me the idea of why she was building the castle. After she felt more confortable with me, she told me her name and asked if I could help her build the castle. While her and I built the castle together, another little girl in dress up clothes asked if she can help, and the little girl said yes.

The teacher suddenly, announced that the children had five more minutes of playing. I could hear the little boys playing with legos loudly moan, because they were enjoying what they were doing. The girls start to run around to the dress up area, so that they could try on more clothes before it was time to clean the room they were visiting up and leave. I could hear the children just laughing and enjoying their free time of playing with the different toys of which they normally don’t play with in their classroom.

After five minutes had passed, the children were moaning and groaning because it was time for them to start cleaning and get ready to leave. they each all started to clean, but that didn’t last long. Some of the boys went back to playing with the legos, until the teacher came over and took it from then and told them to go line up at the door, while everyone else helped clean the room.

When the room was just how it was when they had come, they all were instructed to line up with their class. Some of them didn’t understand since they were still mixed in with the other class that they had came in. Some of the girls in the middle of the line were talking and not paying attention, so the teacher clapped, so that they could repeat the rhythem that was given to them so that they could pay attention. Soon it was time for them to head for the separate classroom. So after they were in a straight line and everyone was ready to leave, they left the room very quietly.