For my last lesson, I chose to teach about adjectives. I decided to base the lesson around hats. After the lesson the students could design their own hats and then we would make them out of newspaper. I made my own newspaper hat and then brought it in to the class. Mrs. Reynolds loved the newspaper hat so much she shared the idea with the entire prep department, grades 1-3. So this past Friday 6 total classes made newspaper hats to take home over the weekend to decorate. On Monday they brought them back and we had a crazy hat parade!
The kids loved it and came up with some creative ideas on how to decorate their hate. I was really please with the outcome. I was also proud of myself for coming up with an idea and it spread to the entire prep department. The wrote about the crazy hat parade in the weekly newsletter giving me credit for the idea:-) The newsletter goes out to all the parents. They said this will become a yearly thing for the students to do.
The school term ended this Wednesday at half past ten. All my students wrote me letters and combined them to make a book. The other third grade class gave me a Kingswood cook book and signed their names inside. I got a few other little gifts from some of the students and lots of hugs. It didn't hit me how close I had gotten to these students until it was time to say good-bye. I will probably never see them again...I enjoyed every minute at Kingswood. It will definitely be an experience I will never forget.
