Journal Entry #3 February 25, 2015

Journal Entry 3 

Blog Entry #3 February 27, 2015

             In the last couple weeks in my observation with Mrs. Nuttall and her kindergarten class, there have been two special education students lowly being merged into the class. This has been really neat to observe. There is always a teacher that come in with them, and every week they extend their stay in the class a little bit longer. Like the first week it was literally 5 minutes, now they are to about 20 minute in the class, which give them time to do some group time and center. It is very neat to see the other kids help them, out and get the hang of class room environment. I do not know what special needs these kid have, one is more severe than the other. However they bother are doing well with being immersed into the class, It is wonderful that they ca be immersed into the class.

                      While observing this week I was able to talk to another kindergarten teacher about one of her student who has a really hard time focusing, and also runs from the class at random times. He has an IEP, because he has a learning disability. It was neat to talk to her because she is able to help him in ways she could not help her regular student. Since the student is a runner and has a hard time focusing, the IEP allows her to hold him and help him stay focused and not run so that he can learn. Normally holding student is not allowed, but because it is what helps him and he has an IEP with it addressed in it she can. That was cool to me because it shows how the IEP helped the student learn, but also helped the teacher teach him. 

           

Journal Entry 2

Friday February 6th, 2015 10:45-12:15pm
Tuesday February 10th, 2015 12:30-1:45pm
        This past week in Mrs. Nuttle's class I was able to go twice, once to her morning class and once to her afternoon class. It was a really col opportunity because on Friday it was hundreds day. I loved seeing how Mrs. Nuttle used the 100s party they had to still teach, the whole time. They did a hundreds work out, where they practiced counting to 100 by 10's. She also taught me some useful information for when I am a teacher. She told me that class room parties, teachers usually hate, because class room management goes out the window. She then said, but if you have trained your class well enough you will still be able to have management and have fun.
       On Tuesday I went in during the afternoon class so that I could observe a math lesson, I have really wanted to do that. It was very simple with work sheet with racing bears and the students would roll a dice and move the bear and then roll again to move it again, and it taught them addition. After the math lesson it was small group and so I was with Mrs. Nuttle in a reading group and I was able to help the children read their homework books. That was really neat cause I was able to observe how Mrs. Nuttle helped them, and I was able to apply like, helping them sound out the word, or looking at the pictures and just trying over and over.  I realized it I harder to help a student read a work that I thought it was. Its hard to teach and not just tell. When I would sound it out, I noticed the student would just look at me to get the answer, rather that try to figure it out themselves. I had to have them sound it out by them selves and to remind them to look at the book, not at me. I feel like I am learning a lot!  I am really grateful I get to observe Mrs. Nuttle.