Rachel+Hall

Peer Tutor Journal Pd 4 - Witman

__September-October__
So far in child care i have been busy helping out in the preschool. There is tons of things to do. When I am not actually working with the kids on preschool days I am doing things like helping the child care 2 students plan their lessons, or getting the preschool room ready for the next preschool day. Even though this is my third year working in the preschool every year it is always hard to get the kids into the routine of preschool and teaching them the proper behavior. I have found that this years preschoolers are probably the most active and energetic group of preschoolers i have had yet.
 * Child Care**

**__10-24-11- 10-28-11__**
This week in preschool we celebrated holloween. All of the preschoolers came dressed in their holloween costumes and we took the around to the different classrooms and thry sang their holloween song. It was a lot of fun!

**__11-7-11- 11-11-11__**
This week in preschool on thursday it was only Jenna, Hunter, and I because all of the sophomores and juniors had career day. We had to make sure the three of us planned the lesson very well because it was only us teaching 19 preschoolers. This week helped me better understand what it is like in an normal school setting with only one teacher.

__11-21-11 - 11-25-11__
This week during preschool was fun because it was right before thanksgiving break so we played a lot of games. Playing games with preschoolers is always fun because they always get really into the games and enjoy them a lot. Also this week Jenna and I decorated the white board for thanksgiving theme and sports which will be the theme when we get back from break.

__December__
This month in peer tutoring has been pretty steady. There has been no big issues or events. One thing that I though was fun was when santa came to preschool and seeing how all the kids reacted. I look forward to preschool every Tuesday and Thursday and it is hard to beleive it is almost half way over.

__1-3-12 - 1-6-12__
This was our first week back from winter break and it was a little bit difficult getting back into the swing of things. The first day back to preschool it seemed like the preschoolers frogot how to act. They had a lot of energy and sometimes one of them would scream and then all the others would follow. It might take a while to get them to remember appropriate preschool behavior.

__1-9-12 - 11- 13-12__
Thursday was our last day of preschool for the semester. I learned a lot this semester in peer tutor about handeling children in a preschool setting. I think this experience will help a lot in my future when i am and elementary teacher. This semester flew by and i can't wait for the preschoolers to come back in a few weeks.

__1-16-12 - 1-20-12__
SInce preschool ended for the semester we have been doing a lot of cleaning in the preschool room to sanitize and get it ready for the preschoolers to come back. We have also been working on the scrap book of the preschoolers.

__**1-23-12 - 1-27-12**__
This week there was still no preschoolers so we helped the child care 3 students put up bulletin boards and we continued to help get the preschool room cleaned and ready for the preschoolers to come back in 2 weeks

**__1-30-12 - 2-3-12__**
This week Jenna was absent and I had to teach the child care 3 students about our preschoolers by myself. It wasnt easy to get up in front of a group of my peers and teach them something but it helped me get better at teaching and gave me experience doing what I am going to do as a job in the future.

__2-6-12 - 2-10-12__
The preschoolers came back on tuesday and it wasnt as hard as i thought it would be to get back in the swing of things. Most of the preschoolers remembered how to behave in preschool and acted as though there was never a long break. Everthing is back to normal minus the new preschooler we got this semester. He is only three so he isnt very emotionally mature and you have to keep him constantly busy to keep his mind off his mom not being there.

__2-13-12 - 2-17-12__
This week in preschool I helped a couple of students with their lesson plans because they had a hard time coming up with an activity to do for science with the theme of caring for others/manners.

__2-20-12 - 2-24-12__
On thursday both of the teachers who planned the math lesson were absent so Jenna and I had to quickly come up with a lesson plan to teach the preschoolers relating to the theme friendship. We ended up having the preschoolers think of all of their friends and put up a finger for each friend they could think of and then count how many fingers they had up. This taught me that sometimes you have to compromise when someone else doesnt do their part of a specific job which I think will help me in the furure.