Reflection 3 Observing Kingergarten

Today I visited a kindergarten class at my school. I smiled the whole time. The kids were so cute. It was funny, because if the teacher held up a book, or another kid showed something interesting for show-and-tell, the whole class in unison would say with great amazement "woooooooe" or "ahhhhhh." The teacher has only been teaching the class for four weeks. She came in when the previous teacher went on maternity leave. Right now she is working with the kids on number recognition, because some of the children struggle with that. She told me the previous teacher excluded certain children from the math games and instead they would work on math sheets. I don't know if it is because they misbehaved or there were other reasons involved. Either way, I do not think that we should punish our students by taking learning away from them. These same children are the ones struggling. Today, for number recognition, the current teacher had each student pick a partner and grab a dice. The student would roll the dice and for each number the dice landed on the student and his/her partner would do a particular action. For example, if the dice landed on 3, the students did three jumping jacks. I used to say I do not want to teach kindergarten, but I am starting to reconsider. It might be fun after all. I'm still deciding if I would like teaching that grade or not.