SALE week!

I don't know about you guys, but Sale week went wonderful for our group. We were blessed to have such a great group of second graders who came in every day eager to learn. It was such a great experience and I took away so much from working with that group for the short 4 days we had. I learned that to teach such young children, you have to get on their level. You have to put yourself in their shoes so you can understand how and what they are thinking. It was really important that we were very friendly with them too. We had to get stern a couple of times and exert some harder classroom management skills, but all in all I think the students respected us and followed our rules and directions very well. I was worried at first about incorporating all of the subjects into our lessons, but as we went on it became easier and easier; especially Social Studies. We were able to incorporate geography, money, government, presidents, and maps into our lessons to teach them in the social studies area. They enjoyed it thoroughly and I think they learned a lot and will remember it for the rest of their lives; as will we.