Ambience: It was 8 am on Friday 15 November and it was cloudy outside but the sun was peeking through the clouds. I walked through the front office of Oak Creek Elementary School and greeted the staff as they pointed me in the direction of the kindergarten classroom I would be observing. As I approached the classroom, I noticed that the school had a very welcoming environment and the staff were friendly and welcoming. The teacher, Mrs. Smith, and her full-time assistant greeted me at the door and I felt accepted. The class had 12 children of many different ethnicities because it was a sheltered English immersion class where students were starting to learn the English language. I entered the classroom and my eyes were immediately drawn to the walls. Every wall was covered in bright, colorful posters and was very busy. There were so many things to do that I had to take a couple of minutes to figure it all out. The classroom had been set up in a certain way by the teacher, geared towards education and creating a warm environment. The first wall that was seen when I entered the classroom was the blackboard. The day's activities, i.e. Indian headbands and necklaces, were posted on the blackboard. The board also had a focus board that listed what the key concepts were for the week. Plus, there were lots of funny pictures lined up on the board. The teacher tied the school mascot, the owl, to her decorations by gluing the children's faces onto the owls' faces so that the children were "wise owls." To the right of the blackboard was the most important wall in the classroom. There was a carpet placed in front of that wall for the children to sit and learn. On that wall were the alphabet and numbers flowing... in the center of the paper... once again Bel's idea of ​​gifts and occupations, the children used manipulatives to count and build numbers and patterns. When practicing counting, the children practiced pointing to each number which mimicked Jean Piaget's idea of ​​one-to-one correspondence. Here the child learns that each object has a number or name and that that number can only be assigned once during counting. The children worked silently making patterns, counting, and building numbers until the teacher said it was time to clean up and line up for recess. I learned a lot from observing Mrs. Smith's kindergarten class about teaching and interactions between students and teachers, as well as . I was excited to see what we were learning in our classroom applied to the children in her kindergarten class. I can't wait to apply what I've learned in my classroom.