My first day of field experience!

My first day was Friday the 18, I arrived at about 1:20 and ended up leaving at about 4:20. The cooperating teachers name is Kari.  I know her personally from my previous job.( I worked at Ramsey's program for students before and after school, called Adventures Plus.) She is a great woman and mentor! When I got to the class the students were just coming in from recess. Before the students got to class Kari explained to me a little about the class and what she wanted me to do. They were very excited to see me as Kari had been telling them all week about me coming in on Friday's. A few of the children were familiar to me, so that was fun. (From my previous job) They started off with independent reading, then they all went into the second grade area, with all the other classes for a reading of the mystery book. This is when a teacher reads a small section of an unknown book, then the children go back into their class room and write down their guess for what book was read, and at the end of the day there is a drawing. When they came back in they all sat on the floor and I was able to share a little about myself. I told them where I went to school and why I was in their class, my favorite color, that I had a brother and sister. Then I took questions from a few children, they asked if I liked Harry Potter my answer was yes, they were excited about that. My favorite question was "What is college like?" I told them about my classes and how they were a lot like theirs, I had math, music and a geography class. Then I told them I lived in St. Cloud on the campus. Some were confused by this, but one of the students I knew from Adventures Plus blurted out that I lived in a Dormitory. Yes he said Dormitory, I laughed at this and was impressed that a second grader knew this. Then they connected it to of course Harry Potter. One of them said, "OH like in Harry Potter how they live at the school." I said yes, but those rooms are a lot nicer. After this discussion the children were eager to get to know me more. So Kari broke them out in to two groups for some group work. The group that I lead, had to make repeating patterns with shapes. They understood the assignment right away and got to work, some faster than others. They asked if they could make another one more challenging, with more shapes. The rest of the day went great. There are a few students in here class that need extra attention and a few boys who misbehave quite a bit. I am very excited to get to know the class more!