Fiel Experience Day 1 (Continued)

Day 1 - 7/8/2010
I completed four hours of my field experience and like I had recently blogged the first day was great. After having a really nice meeting time with the students we moved on to their daily activities. Every day after breakfast and restroom break the students sit on their carpet to sing days of the week and months of the year as well as their ABC's. They do this activity for 30 min every day.

The week day song went like this:"There are seven days,
there are seven days,
there are seven days in a week
there are seven days,
there are seven days,
there are seven days in a week
Sunday Monday,
Tuesday Wednesday,
Thursday Friday,
Saturday;
Sunday Monday,
Tuesday Wednesday,
Thursday Friday,
Saturday.

All of the students really seemed to have this song down pretty well but when it came to the months of the year they just seemed to be following along with Mrs. Flores. I guess that can be because their ages are 3-4 and they have not yet learned all of their months.

The month song:
"These are the 12 months of the year.
Let's sing them together so we can all hear.
How many months are there in a year?
12 months in a year
January, February, March,
April, May, June,
July, August, September,
October, November, December."

Then they went on to sing the traditional ABC song. Most of the students were not paying much attention and I believe that was due to the fact that I was sitting there and I was new to them. I will try to figure if that is true within the next days or if that is how they usually behave because of their exceptional needs.

Some would stare at me but one of the little girls wanted to sit by me. She is a really cute little girl and at first I could not figure out why she was in an exceptional children classroom. I didn't think it was Autism but I had my doubts. I really had not considered speech impediment because since she looked 3 years old I thought maybe that she talked that way because of her young age. She seemed very normal and actually very smart. She asked me many questions like if I lived with my mother and father and when I responded not anymore she asked me if they knew I was going to have a baby. I am pretty sure she came to that conclusion because of my obvious pregnancy. When talking to her it sounded like you were talking to a toddler. I see why that can be a problem at her age but if I had not met her at a school I think I would of thought she was just fine and only talking cute.

I am breaking up my field experience days up in to parts because I did many hours a day to complete my field experience and in order to meet my requirements and to be able to keep blogging I need to break them up. I will always put what day and date each one belongs. Everyone have a great night and can't wait to blog tomorrow.

LUV
MEL