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The institution is located in Bariloche. It was founded in 2005. Children from 45 days
born until 4 years arrive to the school every day.  In the main floor there are two rooms, .(Bebes and gateo)There is also kitchen, a bathroom, hall and long corridor.  In the second floor there are three rooms(Sala de 1, Sala  de 2. Sala de 3,and Sala de 4).
The kindergarten is opened from 7:30 am until 7:00 pm.
In this school children learn English, Music and Physical education among others
subjects, workshops and activities.

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. There are three Institutional projects:

- "Giraluna"(Here teachers move to a different group of children and perform different activities)

-"Cantaluna" (Each grade propose a song and have to teach to the rest
of the school.)

-"Expoluna" (Each grade choose a theme and make an art exposition

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Before going to the kindergarten, nerves drove myself.  I was terrified because I`d never worked with little children before.
My whole experience as a teacher was at primary and secondary school. Therefore, I was full of doubts.
Fortunately, my wife is a kindergarten teacher so I hope she can help me with some ideas.

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It is a group of twelve children, seven boys and five girls. They are hiperkinethic. They like playing around the classroom. They love songs and painting with crayons. Sometimes they tend to hit other classmates, (especially boys). They like activities regarding corporal movements.
Instructions have to be clear because they tend to talk a lot. Some of them like going  to the toilet in the middle of the class. So it is important they go to the toilet before the English classroom.
They also like puppets and singing songs.
Only two students leave the school before 7:00 pm, the rest are in the institution the whole day.

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Me: First of all, thank you teacher for being so comprehensible with me and for helping so much.

Eli: Don`t worry. Thank you.

Me: How is the school? How is it organized?

Eli. It is a maternal kindergarden. The organization is the direction, teachers and parents.

Me:  When do you have English lessons?

Eli: Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Me: What type of activities do you do in the classroom?

Eli: A million of activities haha. I use photocopies, games and songs among others.

Me: Which contents have you worked ?

Eli: Names, colours, shapes, weather, actions; Jump, stamp, listen.

Me: Ok teacher I want to thank you  lot.

Eli: Good luck and enjoy your practices.

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ARRIVING AT SCHOOL, FIRST OBSERVATION CLASS

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ARRIVING AT SCHOOL, FIRST OBSERVATION CLASS

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That Tuesday I woke up early, I prepared the interview, planillas de observación and others papers then I had to wait until the time to go to the kindergarten.  Once I arrived there, a woman called Adela opened me the door, she belongs to “servicios generales”. Inmideately Cecilia  the director showed me the classroom and introduced me Pame the teacher of the classroom and Elizabeth the English teacher. Children help me a lot because they started asking me questions, they showed me their cloth, some of them started playing with me and above all they made feel very comfortable.
Eli the English teacher sang them a colour song and then she asked them to paint a photocopy. That day the class took shorter because Eli had to leave the class earlier.

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SECOND OBSERVATION CLASS

“Today is Thursday and I have my second observation class. Nerves have calmed a little bit, but I am eager to meet the students and the teachers again”.

In this class the teacher showed a puppet of a spider to the children. She told them that the spider was a friend of her and its name was Itsy witsy spider. After introducing the spider she started to sing Inty witsy spider song. I was surprised how children loved this puppet and loved  the song . Then the teacher gave a piece of black wool to the students.And they had to made a ball with the wool and sticked two eyes . I helped them to sticked the eyes and t build the spider. A couple of minutes later all the children had made their spiders.I consider the activity  was very funny. They started to play with their spiders around the classroom.
Finally they stored their spiders in their school bags. And we finished the class with the goodbye song.

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"I cannot explain you with words how do I feel today. Today is Tuesday and I am completely terrified. Nerves are driving myself. I know that I have to take it easy, but it seems impossible to get calm."

This is the first time I work in a kindergarten. I have prepared the lesson plan and studied it many times.  Anyway I will try to give my best.

I arrived to the class some minutes earlier. So I had time to prepared all with time. The lesson is based on colours, so I prepared a game with colour boxes and small colour balloons. One of the aim of the lesson is that students were able to classify colour balloons into the colour boxes. After that, we sticked mini balls of crepe paper in a photocopy and had a nice time. Children liked the activity. I taught them a colour song and they ejoyed it. I think it was an acceptable lesson. They sang, they played and finally they were creative.

In my opinion I still need to improve my performance but I know I can do it. I am positive and eager to continue.

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I l still feel terrifying. It is my second day and I am still full of nerves. I decided to use images in order to practice colours. For example a strawberry(red), a tree(green) and a lemon (yellow) among other pictures. Children loved them. We also recycled the boxes of the previous lesson and put the correct picture into the correct box. At the end of the lesson we made a tressure hunt, It was very funny. Children had to search shapes.
I have the hunch I will be more relax next time.

P.S: I do not feel confident with the English teacher, I mean, she is helping me a lot in order to have a good performance, but on the other hand we might have a better communication.

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jToday I feel better. I invented a dice and we played with it.The dice is about prepositions. Children enjoyed it a lot. Today I feel more relax, the students recognize me they seem happy to see me I think we make a emotional bond.
Today is the first class I can say I enjoyed the lesson. We played a lot. Everything was lovely. At the end of lesson we draw a dog under/on a table and in a box. It was really interesting time went by rather fast.

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Today we played with a dice and children loved it. The dice was very simple, it had six pictures: two sides of a dog UNDER a table, two sides of a dog ON a table and two sides of a dog IN a box. This means prepositions took place in this lesson. It is amazing apprecaite how learners ejoyed the game.
I discovered young learners enjoy a lot watching videos. We watched a video song about prepositions.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F0NYBBKczM,
Then we played again. I took a book and a pencil and children had to say the correct  preposition depending the place of the pencil.
I feel I am improving. I have to go step by step.

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Today I opened the lesson watching a video song about shapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjx2BNyN1HQ
I realized students love watching videos. I discovered it is a very useful tool.
After watching the video students have to paste shapes in a photocopy. They have to recognized triangles, squares, circles, ovals and rectangles.
We used the colours learnt in the previous classes. (Yellow-Red and Green).
From my point of view the relationship with the students is improving all the time. They like sharing news with me and sometimes they tend to hug myself. Fortunately, I am not scared anymore and I am actually enjoying my practicum period.

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Today is my last lesson. In one hand I am very happy because I want to keep working at primary and secondary school, but on the other hand I think I will miss these young learners. They are amazing  and I learnt a lot with them.
Today I had to introduced animals.
First learners listen to the animals sounds. And then they have to guess what animal it is. Once they say the animal in Spanish I repeat it but in English. I asked them to repeat the name of the animal . I also showed them the pictures of each animal. After that with those pictures we played a memory game. At the beginning it was difficult to organize the game but then when they understood the game they enjoyed a lot.
Finally we watched a video about animals and we sang a song.
At the end I gave students a present. I must admit it was a very difficult moment to say bye bye to them. But I am sure I will never forget this experience in my whole life.