This week was a fun week full of lots of great feelings and experiences. It makes me so happy to see the smiles on students face and I get excited when I see students understand the things that are being taught. The “ah ha” moments are my favorite as well. I love it when students will come to me to ask me a question and they think it is the coolest thing how I know so much. With each and every time in the classroom I feel more and more like a teacher. I am absolutely in love with what I am doing. There are stressful points and points that I just have no idea how to handle a student but in the end I know that I will grow from that experience and that I can help the student as well.
This week:
· We worked with the long /i/ sound. Students were to identify the long /i/ pattern and also give examples of words that have a long /i/ pattern in it. (ex: igh, ie). Students took turns coming up to the board and telling me what words would have the long /i/ and also underlining the pattern in the words.
· We worked with irregular verbs. The students had to identify the proper verb to go in each sentence out of a regular present tense verb and an irregular verb. (ex get and got, tell and told, blow and blew) Identify past tense verbs that do not end in –ed. There were some sentences that the students struggled with but after rereading the sentences with the students and having them identify if the sentence was past tense or present and showing the key word that tells them it they were able to complete the worksheet.
· We worked on finding details. Students had statements from the story we read that they had to go back into the story and find out more about that part of the story. At least two details for each of the three statements. Students struggled to come up with more details and when I would ask questions to probe their thinking they would write down one word answers. It took a little bit of time but each student was able to come up with two different details from the points of the story. Some students even went off on their own and dug much deeper into details of the story.
· We had to find and categorize adjectives. Student had 3 sentences to find adjectives in. They had to categorize the adjectives into either “what kind”, “how many”, or “special adjective”. The students had a little bit of difficulty in doing this but with a little help and reminders from me the student all were able to finish and accomplish the worksheet. The helping included having the students find a noun in the sentence or I would give them the noun and they would tell me what word was describing it and helping to understand the concept that the adjective (the word describing the noun) will come right before the noun.
· We did some problem solving and inferring. The students had a worksheet that gave them 2 different paragraphs that stated a problem someone was having and what they were doing about it but gave no solution. The students had to tell what the problem was, what they were doing about the problem and how they might go about solving the problem. The students could answer the first two questions but I had to help them with the last one. I would ask a question for them to think about and answer to help them come up with an answer to the last question.
· I taught a reading lesson this week. All it was for the reading lesson was to read that story and ask the students questions. We did a vocabulary activity before we read the story. The students were able to answer my questions and they did such a good job with giving ideas for what they think would happen in the story.
· The first math lesson I taught this week was dividing by two. The class was so much fun and I could tell they enjoyed the activity we did. I used the students had had them divide each other into two groups and tell me how many were in each group. We even did remainders. They class go this lesson so fast and concept. They even tried to get into a more advanced topic about getting into decimals and not a remainder.
· My other math lesson this week had three different parts. The first part was multiplying by 0. That went by really fast, my class is so smart. The 2nd part was counting by 5, 4, 3, and 2 all the way to 100. We colored charts to show the patterns to help them notice what happens when you count by those numbers. The last part was a problem solving activity. The students did struggle with this a little bit and I caught on to the fact that I needed to help them as a group, something I should of done from the start.
The biggest stop and think moment I had this week was during the problem solving activity. How am I to help these students understand? The teacher said that they have done it before and would know how to do it. I realized they needed some extra help so I made up my own example to show them what to do and how to do it. I really wanted to help the students. I hate that I hadn’t thought to give them an example from the start to help them understand more.
This next week I am going to work on making sure to give the students enough information before they start working on something and it becomes too hard to finish because they are just too frustrated.
Another story to add to this day is when we were in the Library. The kids were so cute and wanted to sit with me and play the clapping games (I taught them one from way back in my day ... "Miss Suzzy had a steem boat the steam boat had a bell....") and the library at the school has a bunch of flags all over it from countries all over the world. Well they started asking me what all of them were. I was like ummmmm (no IDEA!! but you cant tell a student that because they look to you like you know everything) I turned it into a learning experince. So I thought on my feet...We are in a Library arent we?! There has to be a book about the flags .. and one boy went and got it for me. So we went through the book and found flags around the room. I love my kids!!
<3 Erin Christina
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