Near the end of our orientation, we hosted a "camp" for local children at Rairok Elementary, essentially acting as our teaching practicum. The practicum that our three days of "camp" offered were completely invaluable, especially since our real teaching started in just a few weeks from that time. My group was expecting 5th to 6th graders and had planned our lessons for that age group, yet when we were all inundated with youngsters climbing out of a school bus, we had to quickly switch our plans to fit about 2nd and 3rd graders. Practicum also provided us a completely empty slate on what topics to teach, yet as I found out, plans can quickly change. My group chose space, which we had to completely ditch the first day, but did end up using space for the last two days with slightly older students. All in all, the practicum camp was extremely exhausting but prepared me for how much time goes into planning if you want to make your classroom successful.
A group of students:
I wish I had pictures from our End of Orientation banquet, including the talent show our language group had prepared a song for, but unfortunately I was really sick for about 5 days. Apparently it’s quite a feat if you make it through orientation without getting sick, and maybe I was getting cocky, but literally the last day I just crashed and burned (with a fever of almost 104). On a more positive note, I’m glad that happened before school started...and I got caught up on a lot of DVDs!
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