2nd Observation

So today's observation got cut short again. Not by sick children (thankfully) but by the lovely snow that is coming down like powdered sugar on pan full of brownies, convincing the district to let the kids go home early. But I did get to spend an hour and a half observing in the kindergarten room. I'm glad I get to observe kids that age because I didn't think I would enjoy that age group, but I really do. The teacher had me take charge of the last 5 minutes of circle time today; I had flashcards with pictures of people and the children had to guess thier occupation--a good way to teach culture. Next week I'm going to have to try and arrive 15 min earlier because I missed out on the beginning of her lesson. She was teaching from the reading curriculum my Emergant Literacy instructor presented last Tuesday in class. So it was nice to see the material in action. She also assigned me to a "station" during writing. I helped the practice writing the letter "R/r". Sadly my r's weren't much better than theirs. I never was good at Handwriting in school.

I was able to observe the young boy who just started learning English at the start of the school year as he was sounding out some words. He was just as good as some of the native speakers, but he did struggle with some of the pronounciations a little more than the others. He was also rather concerned that his letters looked just so when he wrote, which sometimes prevented him from finishing a task on time. I tried to help him with an "n" but he erased it; apparenlty I didn't do a very good job.

On a side note--now can you picture the other half of my photo?