October 7

I felt like today at music went very well. None of the children seemed to be upset when we came in. They also remained in their seats. It probably had to do with some of them just being changed out of wet clothes from the art activity today, as well as being able to spend a longer amount of time outside without an extra transition between playground and songs. Or maybe it was because the water activity soothed them. Regardless of the reason, it helped everything go smoothly. I took off a couple of the songs so that we had 5 songs for 5 children. Today, I simply went from my right to left when picking children to choose a song. A saw a few extra children doing the motions who normally don't. Michael was vocal, but not disruptive. I feel like I am really into a rhythm with song group. Song definitely went better today than story group went. Obviously I had never done it before, and was a little under prepared and messed up with a few things (like having Michael put the cloudy visual up on the window instead of the "No" box). Although, I don't think story group was particularly bad either, I just felt like I kept forgetting or leaving things out. It kind of made me realize that I spend so much time worrying about executing the things we do in group, interacting with the children, being animated, timing, and everything else, I get a little flustered and end up making little mistakes like the ones I made today and the ones I made over the past couple weeks in song. Today for song, I felt like I had enough of a hold on the routine that I was able to freely think and keep a flow to the whole thing, so I just think all these things take time to get down and feel confident about it. I've seen that confidence is also very important when leading groups like this. See everyone Monday!