Internship Summation

My internship was at Kingwood Township School in Kingwood Township, New Jersey.

I was interning in a second grade and third grade class. The teacher of my second
grade class was Mrs. Mizin. The third grade teacher was Mrs. Markovich. Mrs. Mizin’s
class has 20 students and Mrs. Markovich’s class has 15 students in her class.
The second grade classroom has desks in the middle of the room. On the left of the
desks are their cubbies. On the right of their desks inside a small table and radiators. In
the front of the classroom is the white board and smart board. To the right of the boards
are posters with activities and their schedules. In the back of the room on the right hand
side is the reading area. It has shelves against the wall and a carpet in front. There was
also a sink on the left wall. To the right of the back of the classroom is the teachers
table. There she works with small groups of students at a time.
I did different activities in each of the classes. In Mrs. Mizin’s class I would mostly
observe since they started off with independent reading and then centers. I would walk
around the classroom or sit next to the students while they did other activities. Or some
of them would come and sit with me at the back table. I read two books to the class, and
I cut our laminated papers a few times. In Mrs. Markovich’s class I would work with the
children a lot. She would also come and sit with us and talk to us about teaching. We
would help the kids with their work and then go outside for a snack and play with them.
My lesson that I did was reading a book and then doing a craft. My book is called Little
Bear's Special Friend and is written by Clair Freedman and Dubravka Rolanovic. It is
about a bear who goes into hibernation but wakes up too early. Then he makes friends
with a snowman named sparkly. They had a lot of fun together and then sparkly had to
go to somewhere where it never gets warm. The students were really into it and they
were gasping and everything. In the end the snowman came back and they became
friends forever. After that we did a craft where they made the bear. The substitute
teacher suggested they add the craft to a sheet of paper and draw a background. I went
pretty well and turned out good.
Overall I really enjoyed this internship. I learned a lot from the teachers and how the
classroom runs. It was interesting to see a classroom from the point of view of a
teacher. I found out that I really enjoyed 3rd grade, but that could’ve just been because I
liked the students and Mrs. Markovich. Kingwood in general was a really good
experience and everyone was nice. I’ll definitely miss it at the next school.