New School Excitment!

Hello friends! Today completes my second day at the Terrace School and I am quite fond of it here! I was a wee bit nervous coming into this experience, especially the last few days leading up to Tuesday (no thanks to Krystal!), but I really love it here! I am in a year five and six room with 25 students. The kids are all so, so sweet and so is my teacher! I love their accents, it makes the kids even more adorable.

A lot of the things are very similar to classrooms in the States, however there are many differences as well! The most noticeable difference is that all of the classrooms are in separate buildings and it is so odd! I have always been in schools where all of the classrooms are connected and in one building.  There are around 360 students in our school and all of the students go out to 'playtime' at once. That means there are kids ages 5-13 running around while the teacher sit in the lounge and enjoy tea time! It is a nice morning break and there is always yummy food to snack on. The learning style is different as well. There are various learning groups for each subject and they change as needed. Small groups are also used in the States, but definitely not to the same degree. I am rather interested to see how it affects student's learning. It has been interesting to get used to the spelling differences. For example they spell realize as 'realise' and when there is an 'or' in a word like color, they use 'our.' I think I will begin to catch on eventually, but right now it's a bit confusing.

Right now the kids are my favorite part of being here! They all want to be at school and I have never seen a classroom with absolutely no behavior issues. I have only been here two days, but it is quite obvious that I am really blessed with a great group of kids. Our seasons are oppisite here, so the kids only have about seven weeks of school left and they will be on summer vacation. I got pretty lucky as to see the begging on the school year at Monore and the end of the school year at Terrace.

I am sure I will have a wonderful experience here! I am sure I will have many stories and fun things to share as my time here progresses.

Until then,

Michelle