First off is Miss Jean. Miss Jean has been an Aide at our school for quite some time. She helps out in the office and in classroom and is the Lunch Aide for our classroom.
Miss Jean reminds children of the "safe eating rules" and to take care of their belongings, but she also takes the time to chat with the children, to get to know each of them and their personalities. She always has a wonderful rapport with the children and is interested to listen to their stories, to encourage their independence and to treat them as individuals.
Next, we have Miss Brianna. Miss Brianna is a Co-op Student who is doing a placement for half the year in our Kindergarten classroom. She comes in at the second nutrition break, chats with the children and helps them with their routines. She goes outside and plays with them on the playground and reinforces our safe rules for outside play. Then for the rest of the afternoon she helps both me and the children. If you take a step into our classroom, you'll often find Miss Brianna working with a small group of children on any given day playing letter, number and sound games and encouraging them to risk take, engage in cooperative play and take turns.
Another favourite friend of the children is Aaron. Many years ago, Aaron was one of Mrs. Stefani's favourite "Kindergarten Kids" but he's now grown up and enjoys coming to help the children in our classroom with both nutrition break and outside time. Aaron is a natural with the child coming from a large family of which is proud to be both a big brother and Uncle. Aaron has a natural ease with the children, lots of friendly words and the children get very excited when he walks in the rule. I think he may be a teacher some day!
What wonderful people we have in our room! We are truly so lucky and spoiled!
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