Week 5:Day 1

Today was the day that I basically am teaching everything. Everything that is, besides English and math. We had our last NWEA test today, so that threw the schedule off a little bit, but it wasn’t anything drastic. Basically it took away our AR time, and our math time, so we skipped social studies and science and did AR and math during those time periods instead.

Spelling Miss M taught today, as she wanted to show me how to play the game, sparkle before I started teaching spelling. She also wants me to see guess the covered word, so hopefully she teaches that tomorrow, and then spelling is all mine! Reading went alright, we didn’t have small groups, so Miss M talked to students about their AR records, and how they have to be more careful and her rules along with that. Students then had reading on the new story, and I was in charge of reading (and will be from now on). We started the story “How My Family Lives in America”. No reading yet, we just went over the vocabulary from the story. The students at the end of the week (or beginning of next week) will get to eat sesame noodles (or something like that) with chopsticks. Students did a good job. I thought the words were highlighted in the book so I had students get their reading books, and look for the vocabulary words, but they weren’t highlighted. We went through the words and found them together. I made a solution to my wrong thinking, and unpreparedness. I should have looked in the books prior to the lesson, but I thought since they were highlighted/underlined in the teachers book, that they would be highlighted in the students book. It was my fault, and a learning experience was gained.

The students again had to be called down to music. I always forget that music on Monday is at a different time than music on Wednesday and Friday. That makes it really hard to remember, and I forget it. Miss M seems to have a bit of trouble following schedules, and has said that before… she asked me to watch the time and get students to where they need to go at the times they need to go. Oh well, I’ll keep working on that, hopefully next Monday I can remember that they need to be down there at 9:20 rather than at 10:35.

The last NWEA test was right after lunch. It was the language portion of the tests. Students had questions that dealt with grammar, and other things like letter structure, and author’s purpose. It is interesting to see the difference in test scores, and how students are doing.

Other than that it was a good day. I have a lot of work ahead of me for this next week, and hopefully it all gets done. I am going to be more prepared when it comes to students/teachers book, and will keep my eye on things to see if they are as I want them to be. If not I will find other things to do instead, or change my plans.