Journal #6 4/11/19

Today was my last day at my service learning internship and it was bittersweet. I seriously loved the time I got to spend with all the children helping them learn and grow. Today was like any other day, except I had gotten there early in the school day so I was able to go with them for lunch. Before that, they were doing their different centers and a little boy wanted me to help him with Mr. Potato Head so I did. He got excited and would throw Mr. Potato Head and then all of the pieces would come out so he would asked me to help me again. He kept doing it for awhile but I didn't mind because it made him happy. I kept playing with him until another little kid had come over and asked me to play with the dinosaurs with him. Eventually, it was time to clean up for circle time where they would go over the day and who was present and who wasn't. After that, was another round of centers before lunchtime and I just walked around the room playing with each student as much as I could, I used magnetic letters to spell out my name on the door for the little kids. The it was lunchtime which was nice to spend with the kids before I left. I had a difficult time telling the kids that it was my last day, I didn't know how to tell them that my hours were completed because I knew they wouldn't understand what I meant. The teacher knew but once it was time for me to leave, I just told the kids I would back one day because the teacher had invited me to continue to come and help her with the children once I was done with classes which I'm probably going to do and because I didn't want them to be sad.