September 22nd, 2022

Thursday’s are the day that students are able to complete their Thoughtful Thursday journal prompts. Doing these journal prompts on a daily really helps build the students writing skills, critical thinking, and vocabulary usage. Throughout these first few weeks I’ve noticed that students are consistently working on their writing skills (punctuation, proper spacing, spelling words correctly), bettering their math skillset (fluency with facts to 10, application problems in their math books, solving basic addition/subtraction equations), phonics, and more. Towards the end of the day students have a little free period which entails them going to their different centers, I love enjoying students when they are doing their STEAM boxes because its something they really seem to enjoy doing and get really invested. Since it was beginning to look a bit like Fall, we where able to go outside in the play ground area and take a picture of the students in front of this huge tree. The point of doing this was to see how the tree progress over the next few weeks (what color will the leaves change?, when will all the leaves fall off?, etc.). After we took pictures we had students come back in and I read a book to them for story time and yes ! you guessed it !! it was a book about Fall, Clifford’s 1st Autumn by Norman B. to be exact. As you can see today was a pretty good day with the students.

September 15th, 2022

Hello Bloggers !

Today in my field experience class was a pretty simple day for the most part. I did a reading survey with the students. With this reading survey the goal was to see what type of books my students like. A lot of questions I asked them pertained to genre’s of books, picture books, favorite book characters, etc. This survey was great to do because it helped me get to know the students a little bit on a more personal level. Once I completed my reading interest survey with the students they went back to doing their day to day schedule. During math time students went on their Chromebooks to get on Zearn. This was my first time ever hearing about a math computer app by the name of Zearn so I was curious to see the many things students would be doing on this app. While students where on the app I walked around and saw that the app allows them to work through word problems, solve addition/subtraction equations, make ten frames, and so much more. Overall I would say today was a pretty good day for the most part because I was able to learn more about my students.