I {heart} technology. This dual purpose blog is a green method of responding to written assignments for all of my Portage High School students. The second purpose is to share my love (and frustrations) about paper crafting.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Reflection for 11/14 - 11 /18
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Emily Casella
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This week was pretty good. I got my lesson. Its pronouns for the third graders! I am so excited. I’m really familiar with them and already have what I have in mind for the lesson. Anyways, back to this week. It was pretty quiet week. I did AR with the kids again. The kid that I was not very fond of me last week, actually let me help him read with him, but then I had to leave half way through the book. That was very annoying, so he had to read with the aide. We also got a new girl, Emilee. She is a kindergarten, very cute. The only other girl Eris, wanted to play with her so badly when she first came in, but she was very shy and started to cry, so I took Eris to play with something else. Luckily, Emilee got comfortable and started to play with Eris. Eris was very nice and made Emilee a shirt for her platypus reading buddy. So they seem to be doing fine together. Another fun moment was on Tuesday, I believe, I was in charges of helping Robbie with a reading packet. It went well. He was only silly a couple of times. I got him on track and he did it. I also helped with him with counting twos. He was a little more stubborn doing that. But we did half than he got a break, than came back and he finished it. I also went got to interact with this kid name Gage, he is a very bright (not that they all are not bright, because they are) kid. He is very sarcastic and kind of a trouble maker. But he is the fast worker. So yeah, got my lesson, the kids are started to be comfortable with me being there, and it was a really fun week. –Emily Casella
This was one crazy week for me. I really got in to working with the kids this week. Mrs. Tosch had me running alphabet drills with a few kids all four days this week. I got to really see what worked to keep them working and what didn’t. One of my kids has been identified with a learning disability, so I had to think of creative ways of keeping his attention. I had him picking up plastic letters and telling me what they were and what sound they made. He would do it sometimes, but others he wouldn’t. Instead, he would take the letters, hide them under himself, and say he ate them. I couldn’t get him to stop doing it, so I just ran with it. After this, I talked to his Title 1 teacher and asked for advice on keeping his attention. He was a big help in helping me understand that with that student, I’ll never have full control and some of the stuff he does I have to let go. He also said that bringing his attention back isn’t all that hard; you just have to figure out what will get him to focus. That’s something I will work on over the next few weeks. The crazier part of my week was in the beginning few days. The was one student who from the get-go hasn’t wanted to listen to Mrs. Tosch, Mrs. Ozbolt, or I. He is constantly trying to kick someone, disrupt the lesson, or refuse to do something. This week he even head-butted another student, which lead to Mr. Hufford coming in to the class and having a discussion with him about his behavior. During this discussion, which took place in the attached room, this student let out several blood-curdling screams and he had to be removed from class. His mother even had to come sit with him in class the next day and he has been given his own table to work at because he can’t sit and behave with the other children. Through all of this commotion, I had no idea what to do to keep the kids focused on the lesson, but I applaud Mrs. Tosch. She pulled everyone back and went on with the lesson like nothing was happening. Now I know what to do and I’m prepared for whatever he throws at me. -Jasmine c:
This week i really learned how much it work it take to prepare a small activity for the students. This week I helped Mrs. Cruz prepare an activity that was giving each student in the second grade a card, and on that card there was a description of an immgrant they were going to pretend to be. I had to cut out all the cards, glue al the cards to a piece of paper, cut those out a laminate them, then cut again. This was almost a three hour project for me! A teacher's job isnt as easy as they make it seem. It takes alot of time outside of the classroom to make everything come together. The kids are slowly getting warmed up to me being there. Som of them say "yay" when i walk in the room. Its kind of cute. Over-all, this week was a good one, im learning more and more every week.
This week was fun. I was officically in charge of calendar, which is the typical morning task, and during this I witnessed my first "I never get to do that" and it was difficult explaining this child that he can't do the stapling everytime. It was frustrating that he didn't understand my reasoning but eventually we compromised and he pounded it so we're all good. I also got to take control with individual students without being asked just from knowing the system and how the particular child works. I recall from my first day that a few children had difficulty reading and I personally want them to accomplish this task so I do everything I can to work with them one on one. I love being with all my kids and they are honestly the highlight of my day. I wish this class was all year long.
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This week was pretty good. I got my lesson. Its pronouns for the third graders! I am so excited. I’m really familiar with them and already have what I have in mind for the lesson. Anyways, back to this week. It was pretty quiet week. I did AR with the kids again. The kid that I was not very fond of me last week, actually let me help him read with him, but then I had to leave half way through the book. That was very annoying, so he had to read with the aide. We also got a new girl, Emilee. She is a kindergarten, very cute. The only other girl Eris, wanted to play with her so badly when she first came in, but she was very shy and started to cry, so I took Eris to play with something else. Luckily, Emilee got comfortable and started to play with Eris. Eris was very nice and made Emilee a shirt for her platypus reading buddy. So they seem to be doing fine together. Another fun moment was on Tuesday, I believe, I was in charges of helping Robbie with a reading packet. It went well. He was only silly a couple of times. I got him on track and he did it. I also helped with him with counting twos. He was a little more stubborn doing that. But we did half than he got a break, than came back and he finished it. I also went got to interact with this kid name Gage, he is a very bright (not that they all are not bright, because they are) kid. He is very sarcastic and kind of a trouble maker. But he is the fast worker. So yeah, got my lesson, the kids are started to be comfortable with me being there, and it was a really fun week. –Emily Casella
This was one crazy week for me. I really got in to working with the kids this week. Mrs. Tosch had me running alphabet drills with a few kids all four days this week. I got to really see what worked to keep them working and what didn’t. One of my kids has been identified with a learning disability, so I had to think of creative ways of keeping his attention. I had him picking up plastic letters and telling me what they were and what sound they made. He would do it sometimes, but others he wouldn’t. Instead, he would take the letters, hide them under himself, and say he ate them. I couldn’t get him to stop doing it, so I just ran with it. After this, I talked to his Title 1 teacher and asked for advice on keeping his attention. He was a big help in helping me understand that with that student, I’ll never have full control and some of the stuff he does I have to let go. He also said that bringing his attention back isn’t all that hard; you just have to figure out what will get him to focus. That’s something I will work on over the next few weeks.
The crazier part of my week was in the beginning few days. The was one student who from the get-go hasn’t wanted to listen to Mrs. Tosch, Mrs. Ozbolt, or I. He is constantly trying to kick someone, disrupt the lesson, or refuse to do something. This week he even head-butted another student, which lead to Mr. Hufford coming in to the class and having a discussion with him about his behavior. During this discussion, which took place in the attached room, this student let out several blood-curdling screams and he had to be removed from class. His mother even had to come sit with him in class the next day and he has been given his own table to work at because he can’t sit and behave with the other children. Through all of this commotion, I had no idea what to do to keep the kids focused on the lesson, but I applaud Mrs. Tosch. She pulled everyone back and went on with the lesson like nothing was happening. Now I know what to do and I’m prepared for whatever he throws at me.
-Jasmine c:
This week i really learned how much it work it take to prepare a small activity for the students. This week I helped Mrs. Cruz prepare an activity that was giving each student in the second grade a card, and on that card there was a description of an immgrant they were going to pretend to be. I had to cut out all the cards, glue al the cards to a piece of paper, cut those out a laminate them, then cut again. This was almost a three hour project for me! A teacher's job isnt as easy as they make it seem. It takes alot of time outside of the classroom to make everything come together. The kids are slowly getting warmed up to me being there. Som of them say "yay" when i walk in the room. Its kind of cute. Over-all, this week was a good one, im learning more and more every week.
-Keri Kochvar
This week was fun. I was officically in charge of calendar, which is the typical morning task, and during this I witnessed my first "I never get to do that" and it was difficult explaining this child that he can't do the stapling everytime. It was frustrating that he didn't understand my reasoning but eventually we compromised and he pounded it so we're all good. I also got to take control with individual students without being asked just from knowing the system and how the particular child works. I recall from my first day that a few children had difficulty reading and I personally want them to accomplish this task so I do everything I can to work with them one on one. I love being with all my kids and they are honestly the highlight of my day. I wish this class was all year long.
--Cait.
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