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Student Teaching 2012

School: Norwood Elementary School



Grade: Kindergarten

Teacher: Tammy Turnbill



I embarked on the final leg of my journey to becoming a teacher at Norwood Elementary School. I was placed under the guidance of Tammy Turnbill, a veteran Kindergarten teacher.

I quickly learned that Kindergarten is a very special grade. I was immediately welcomed into the fold as a teacher and walking into the room everyday, I was greeted with warm smiles.

First Chance Reading Program

I was privileged enough to learn the reading program that Norwood has been apart of for the past few years. Children start off day one of Kindergarten working on reading. Mrs. Turnbill assigned me my own reading group/writing group, and I spent my weeks working with the children.





Writing also plays a big part of the First Chance program.

Combined with word work, the children develop their reading/writing skills quickly.





Along with my own reading/writing group, I was given responsibility of Math during center time.



Dinosaur Fun!

I was lucky enough to be a part of Dinosaur week in Kindergarten.

One of the activities I did with my students was an activity that made them realize just how big the dinosaurs were.



Science: Solids and Liquids

While in Mrs. Turnbill's class, we were given something very exciting. A media cart!

The first thing I did was use a type of technology called Youblisher to present a fun experiment to my kids.

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