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.