A Bittersweet Afternoon

My practicum hours were finished up on Monday of this week (I even had 44 out of the necessary 40 hours), but I decided to go back today to take a class picture and spend some time with the students one last time. It's nice to have my hours finished up, but I'm sad to no longer be seeing my students every week. For our final day, we had some free time to chat, then we played multiplication bingo. I called out some basic multiplication tables, and they had to find the correct answer on their bingo cards.

Some of the students were wanting to stay in touch after I left, so I wrote my address and email on the white board so they had the choice to write to me. I would be so excited to get mail from one of my students. A few of the girls also took time to write me some nice goodbye messages on the board, and I just had to take a picture to remember them. :)

It was very sweet to hear that the kids were going to miss me. Actually, when I walked in the door this afternoon, the first thing I heard was, "Miss Cote, we've missed you!" I thought that was cute, because I'd just seen them on Monday! Today was definitely filled with some warm fuzzies. I already have plans to go back to visit for Christmas, and I might even make a habit of visiting once a month for the rest of the year. There's no such thing as too much classroom practice, right?