Take your kid to work day post

A couple weeks ago we were able to participate in take your kid to work day, and we had to make a video and write a blog post about our experience! I had participated in take your kid to work day before, but I had been much younger, and I don’t really remember much about what happened. Because of this, this was almost a completely new experience for me, and I was pretty excited to see what it would be like. However, we had to make a video of this event, and had to do a bit of pre-planning:

Mine was a basic video plan, and some interview questions, although not everything I put on there actually ended up in my video. Getting onto what actually happened, The place I went to was Richard McBride elementary school, which is where my mom teaches a grade one and two split class. After we got there, The day started out pretty straightforward, with me helping my mom set up the classroom before the kids arrived. The kid’s first class was actually music, so me and my mom had some free time. We used this time to get me a visitor name tag, and my mom introduced me to some of her colleagues. I helped the kids with reading in one of her friends’s classrooms, and read them a couple of stories. Then the kids from my mom’s class came back, so I went back to my mom’s classroom. There, I helped check the kids spelling activities, which was entertaining for the first five minutes, but then started getting tedious. Then the kids left for recess, but there were still things to do, and my mom and I went and set up decorational poppies for some meeting in the gym. I never got to see the meeting though, as soon as recess ended I was back to marking assignments. But near the end of the day, we did a class reading, and I got to read a book to the whole class. Then my mom also read a book to her class, and I used the free time to get some shots of the school. Then the kids had some free time at the end of the day, which I used to get more shots of the school for my video. Eventually the kids where dismissed, but that isn’t where take your kid to work day ended. I reflected on my day and what I learned in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5saL-m4zG_g&list=UUqJcEm84M1KCsxoCAYY-VfA&index=1

So in conclusion, I had a great experience during take your kid to work day, and was able to gain some insight on what it is really like to be a teacher.