My first teaching experience in an elementary school

When I was in second cuatrimester, a teacher prepared us to give a nutrition class in a little school in San Pedro, we were very nervous because we had to deal with like 30 kids and we taught that it was going to be tough.

Our topic was “El plato del buen comer” we explained the groups of food and we told them what the lipids, proteins and carbohydrates are. We told them how to eat well and I was very surprised because everyone was paying attention and all the kids were participating so much.

One thing that I loved and that I will never forget is that no one knew what lipids are and they were like “what is that?” and we told them and obviously it was a new word for them, and after that all the kids were using that word for everything and saying it out loud, that was funny and cute.

Another thing that surprised me so much, is that, we asked the kids if they liked to eat junk food, and most of the kids told us that they didn't liked junk food! They told us that they liked fruits and vegetables, and we were very surprised with that, and also happy because I like to hear that a kid doesn't like junk food :) I don't know if they were saying the truth but I think that it was actually true :)

Then, when I was talking to them, I talked about Cereals and Meats and a little boy in the front was reading all of my paper sheets, but instead of making me feel stressed I was almost laughing because he was saying everything so cute and that was funny. Then I asked them were we can find the meat and a boy told me “in the hot dogs!” and we all laugh, even the teacher was laughing, it was very funny.

We teach them how to clean the vegetables and I loved that everyone was so quiet and listening to us, and learning from us, that made me feel so good :)

In the last moments, we gave everyone a draw of a food, and we draw the “plato del buen comer” in a big paper and we made them pass to the front and stick the food in the correct group :) no one made a mistake and everyone were very excited to pass!

When we had to go I remember that no one wanted us to live the classroom I was almost crying because all of the children were so nice to us and we were so comfortable in there, and they asked “are you going to come back?” and we were like “yes of course!” but we never went again :( haha

I think that this was a nice experience for me and I loved the way that the kids treated us, I thought that no one was going to pay attention, but fortunately I was wrong :) and I also think that this is a good experience to share with all of you, I hope that I could do this again in the future.

Thanks for reading!

And this is a picture of me, my classmates and the kids after the class, we came back and told them if they wanted to took a picture with us and they were screaming and jumping saying that they wanted, and they ran to us to take the picture :) they are so cute! I miss them haha.