Two weeks ago I restarted my Montessori Model United Nations teaching assistant internship in Upper elementary at my school. I asked my internship coordinator when we would be starting the internship and got in touch with the supervisors. This year I am doing it with two other people. I and one of my other interns recommended the third intern that we added. So far we have been working on doing country research with the kids. This is where they do research on the country they will be representing, so that they can become familiar with it and what has happened in its history. This year the countries we have are the United Kingdom, Greece, Japan, Ethiopia, and Argentina. We started off by having them practice doing random countries so they could get more familiar with doing the research all together. We have a group of 6, three groups of 4, and a group of two. I suggested to the internship supervisors assigned each of us to a specific country, so we could help a group of students throughout the entire year and get more familiar with them. Me and the other two interns each were assigned countries. I was assigned to the United Kingdom and Argentina group, which are the groups of 6 and 2.
Yesterday, my high school had our Lunar New Year celebration. For the past three years, I have been organizing the celebrations. This year, the teacher who supervises my planning wanted to have our celebration with the middle school, so we can get more students involved. I thought this was a great idea, but I was at first worried about how we would accommodate a lot more people in our activities, as we would be going from about 110 people to 180. This meant that I had to purchase a lot more materials for each activity so that all students and faculty could get participate. We also wanted to make sure we all were staying together and really integrating middle school and high school. For Lunar New Year, we always provide lunch, so I thought it would be good to serve food in the middle school, then require that everyone eats in the high school or on the quad. This way, we were all staying together instead of separating into our building. I think that this worked well to keep us all togeth...
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