University of Puerto Rico in Humacao English Department Shirlenne Peralta 842-07-6270 Practice Teaching- Practice Supervisor- Dr. Nilsa Lugo
REFLECTION #16 December 1-5, 2014 It’s here! The last week of teaching at the Rufino Vigo has come. It is unbelievable for me because I saw Practice Teaching eternal at first, and now it’s over. It was definitely hard for me to say Goodbye to my students because I was already creating that special relationship with them. I told my students I few days before, that I was leaving on the 5th of December. I should have done it at the end of the class because the entire class starting screaming, No! That moment certainly made my heart melt, though it was hard afterwards to get the students focused on the class. Christmas is around the corner and students, parents and teacher can feel it. There has been a lot of absences in my group and that threw of some of the things I had planned to give in class. Jailene (practice teacher) and I planned to throw a third graders mash up Christmas party. Her third graders and mine all got together in the English classroom at 10 am for the party. I had a lot of fun with them. This week I have been working with my teacher candidate partners to give a few final touches to our special project. It came out wonderful! Before taking our students to the classroom for the party, we took our groups to our special project in Mrs. Laboy’s classroom. The students loved the English corner and were looking all around. Had it not been because there was a class in session, I’m pretty sure they would have made themselves at home in the area, which is really the whole point of the reading area. Afterwards, we went to the party. Both of our third graders love music, so we played Christmas music, and the famous song Let it Go couldn’t be left out. My heart smiled when I saw the students smile and sing the chorus together. When everything was over, my students came up to me to hug me and were saying they didn’t want to let me go and that they were going to
University of Puerto Rico in Humacao English Department Shirlenne Peralta 842-07-6270 Practice Teaching- Practice Supervisor- Dr. Nilsa Lugo
follow me to my car. We took a picture together and I handed them a Christmas bag with treats inside. I know that I have written like 80% of the time of how my group is so rowdy, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but now that it is over, I am going to miss their rowdiness and their wittiness. They have been like the Sour Patch candy’s Motto, First they’re sour, and then they’re sweet. I am going to miss them a lot.