Wynee Wang

Date: 10/10/07

Where: Debary Elementary School

Time: 8:00 AM - 1:20 PM

Grade: Second Grade

Teacher: Mr. Roeshink



Since I live in Volusia County, and definitely know that I will be a teacher in this county, I decided to finish my service-learning hours in Debary Elementary. Every single school in Volusia County have wednesdays as early-release day, meaning that students get out one hour earlier than regular days. The county believes that by having early-release days, it will give teachers a break during the middle of the week. Well, thank goodness that I live here! I wanted to see how an early-release day felt like, so I emailed Mr. Roeshink and told him I was going to his classroom on Wednesday. I was very excited to be placed with a male elementary teacher. To be honest, I have NEVER observed a male elementary teacher before, so I was eager to see the difference between a male and female teacher.



As soon as I walked to Mr. Roeshink's door, he swung open the door and greeted me with a huge smile. When I walked in, I noticed that the children weren't there. "I just dropped the kids off at P.E., they start specials at 8AM." Wow, I was shocked by this, because isn't that a little early for specials? Mr. Roeshink helplessly said, "I was wondering if you could help me with my first emergency? One of the girls brought her baby tooth to show everyone and then she dropped it on the floor." I began to crawl on the floor and search carefully for this tooth. I remember how important my first baby tooth was to me. After five minutes of crawling on the floor, I finally found the tooth, it was very small. Upon completion of this emergency task, Mr. Roeshink thanked me and showed me around his room.