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This last week with my kindergarten class really showed me how much the students can grow with practice every day. Every morning we got the opportunity to practice sight words and number with our students, and some of them really struggled with many words and the blending sounds like th, sh, and ch, but after practicing every morning on the same words and sounds, they were able to get the hang of it and eventually remember them. I really enjoyed seeing them succeed and they were very happy when they were getting their words right too. When I showed excitement in their success, they were proud of themselves, and this went a long ways.

I also got to read my last read aloud this week, and I read a book called "My Life as a Chicken" by Ellen Kelley. I chose this book because my kindergarteners are hatching chicken eggs in an incubator in the classroom and they are super excited to see them every morning when they walk in. I learned to listen more carefully when they ask questions during my story to bring up a conversation. The students were able to point out the rhyming that went along with the story, and this is a benchmark they have to have down in kindergarten, so going over these words would have been beneficial as well.

We decided to stay for a majority of the day on our last day because we wanted to get the chance to see more than their reading hours, and I'm glad we did. I learned a lot from this experience and I am excited to see what else I'll learn in the next couple semesters before I have a classroom of my own one day!