3rd day- January 28, 2014

On January 28, 2014, I had students who needed help with letter sounds. I bought alphabet flashcards at Walgreens. I had the students sit in a circle on the rug. I used a pointer stick and pointed to each letter of the alphabet on the wall. They had to say the letter and sound. I didn't move on to the next letter unless they had it correct. After, we played a game with the flashcards. The game was to recognize the photo on to card and say the name, letter, and sound. Only a boy named Henry and a girl named Johanna got all them correct. During first semester, Henry had a hard time doing classwork because it was challenging for him, but man he knew his alphabet! It was heart warming seeing him proud of himself instead of being sad. However, an intelligent girl named Elaine didn't know much of the alphabet even when we sounded out the picture on the card. Hopefully, next week when we play she'll understand.

Time logged in for this session: 1 hr

Total Time logged: 3 hr

2nd day- Monday January 27, 2014

On Monday January 27, 2014, I met with the kids. This was the first day I was going to teach them a lesson, I brain farted and just sat infront of them blank. Luckily the teacher helped me get started. She continued to help as I got stuck.  I met up with 9 children and taught them a sentence starter. The sentence starter was "I like to play _____." Over the weekend, I made my own and wrote, "I like to play hop-scotch." I drew myself playing hop-scotch in the sun. It was a well-detailed picture. I had the students write the sentence starter and fill in the blank. First, I had them share out the activity and had them sound out the activity as they tried to spell it. It was really cute. A boy, named Uriel put, "I like to play on the moncke borz." This was a way to help students get familiar with letter sounds.

Time logged in for this session: 1 hr

Total Time logged: 2 hr

The 1st Day- January 17th, 2014

On January 15th, 2014 was the first day I talked to my mentor about the physical project. I was hesitate on what I actually wanted to do because I didn't want to feel "dumb" infront of a teacher. I asked her if we can put the children into groups based on their academic learning levels. She said it was totally fine! I was relieved. I was going to help them with basic mathematics, since I enjoy math, but she said Language Arts would be better. And I agree because knowing your alaphbet and letter sounds are more essiential to first grade than mathematics. On Monday's and Friday's, I will be working with the students by writing sentences by themselves or finishing off the sentence starters. On Tuesday's and Thursday's, I will be working with the children by recongizing letters and sounds. I'm excited to teach the children and watch them academically develop. I feel like this will help me with public speaking.


Time logged in for this session: 1 hr

Total Time logged: 1 hr