After a few days of learning through staff meetings on Monday, PD day through Chinook School division on Tuesday (learning about sound boards and guided math) and prep day (setting up classroom) on Thursday, I was feeling very excited to kick off the school year! My Coop teacher and I sat down and created a day plan. Together she and I worked with students forming relationships through meaningful greetings and getting to know you activities. We had a school assembly in the morning, and unpacked school supplies throughout the day. As an activity we traced our hands, coloured and placed them together to represent belonging and a sense of community within the classroom. The day went by very fast! Tomorrow we will be going over school rules and continuing with “get to know you” activities. My responsibility is to come up with a way for students to display their ideas for responsibilities in a unique way, and to create activities that can be done using water for outside Phys Ed. For the first 5 days of classes I will observe, after that I will begin teaching a grade 4 science unit on rocks and minerals. 

Take care,

Danica

The time has finally come, I have finished classes at the University of Regina and I am now about to embark on my journey through internship. This fall I  have been provided with the incredible opportunity to complete my intern placement at Ponteix Community School located in South West Saskatchewan. Here I will be spending time observing and teaching grade 3/4 students under my Coop teacher Mrs. Lori Kendall. When finding out my placement, I was quickly engulfed with many emotions, gratitude and excitement being the top two. I would like to thank my incredible Coop teacher for having me, as well as the community of Ponteix, and Chinook School Division

Being placed in Ponteix meant I would be able to move back home for the fall, and I will have the opportunity to experience teaching in a rural school. Over the years I have heard so many amazing things about my coop teacher such as how caring, understanding & supportive she is. I am truly overjoyed to begin this experience, and I look forward to having readers of these reflections follow along my personal journey as I learn to understand myself as a future teacher and others to take on the incredible and rewarding career of becoming a school teacher <3

Ponteix Community School

Cheers,

Danica

Note: I have been provided permission to use all names that are included within this post.