It's slowly coming together

At my last Practicum placement, teachers weren't allowed to photograph the kids. I asked, thinking I could give the school the photos of a special assembly they had. So when I learned I'd need photos to complete some of my assignments, such as a mock newsletter, I was a bit worried. I was even thinking of staging a few of my nephews and nieces sitting at desks.

Last week, however, I learned of a field trip that my Practicum teacher was helping to plan. I offered to go, since it was on a Friday that I had no other pressing plans. I dropped an idea that I could shoot a few pics to help document the trip. AND GET this...the teacher said, "Great."

So a lot of the things I have to get done are slowly but surely coming together. Also, I think this field trip will be a good experience for me, having not been on a field trip since the late 1980s. I'll also get to observe how my teacher's team works together, which is so crucial to the middle grade teaching teams.

It's still nearly a month off, but I find I'm looking forward to it. I know the kids are. My teacher said that some of the students' parents don't own cars. When they recently went on a field trip north of King's Island, he said many of the students had their noses pressed to the windows ooing and awing. For many, it was the first time they'd been near KI. That, boggled my mind. I didn't grow up wealthy, and my parent's could rarely afford for me to go to King's Island, but I did get to go on special occasions. I know a lot of people might not think that field trips are very useful, but I still remember many from my youth--and that was a ways back. I think they can be (to borrow a phrase) very meaningful and engaging.