I thought this day was a little bit more challenging, but it was to be expected. No listening ears and I guess what they were doing was testing me. I was glad to watch my mentors handled the situations. They talk to the children about what they should say to the other child who does something that they don’t like; pushing and hitting. This is something I still feel I need to master.

With the challenges throughout the day, we went outside with the children. One child I had fun watching was playing with a yoga ball. He was trying to push the yoga ball to the top of the tyke climber with slide, but with multiple failures, he finally was able to get it up top only to be pushed down the slide.

while we had free time with the kiddies, there is a play station where the kiddies can play with felt fabric, one child wanted to make a pumpkin, another wanted to make a snow man, and another wanted to make boots, so I too that moment to get the scissors so they can create what they wanted. I thought this was a good moment for them to work on their motor skills, my educator mentioned it’s a little more difficult than paper, and I agree, but I learned something. Yes, always a good opportunity to observe what child can and cannot yet do. Sometimes it just for lack of opportunity other times its lack of interest, too challenging or just not ready.

Outdoor play, I just wanted to follow up with the snow. the same child came to me with snow. I was happy to hear that he remembered puq-white, I followed up with Maqa7-snow. The child tried to hand me the snow but I mentioned that it was too cold for me to hold, he wanted me to put it in my pocket, I told him it could melt if it put it in my pocket, so, educator told the child to put the snow in the sun and see what happens, he placed the snow on the table in the sun and slowly the snow began to melt, child started to get impatient so I asked child what would happed if we were to place the snow on our hands, so I put what was left over on my hand and we watched, it fully melted. child can’t wait for more snow. Yes, there is something magical about snow.

I found that I needed to learn more about rhymes and songs. It’s been a long time and I don’t remember much. Once again good goal for next practicum to relearn some children’s songs and rhymes.

My first day, I mostly did observations, getting to know everyone’s names. I felt awkward when I wanted to call a kiddie and let them know what they shouldn’t be doing at the time, but i forgot their name. also, when a child was starting to bang hard on a toy, I wasn’t sure how to handle the situation and I didn’t want to feel like I was stepping on any toys.

I was really happy to teach the kiddies some of the Statimc language as well as the educators. I’m excited to learn some more of the language as they teach what they know as well.

When we went outside with the kiddies, a child came to me and said white! I responded with puq-white, the child repeated the language and then I went to say Maqa7-snow, the child repeated the langauge again, it made me smile.

I am happy to be apart of this crew!

Sounds like it turned out to be a good first day and so glad you are feeling confident to provide opportunities for the children not kiddies to learn Statimic language!!!!