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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Reading Folks Day One...
After your first day in Field on Friday at McIntire (Anna and Nantana, you two can add to this as soon as you do your first day!):
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Today in Ms. S's class we were each assigned a student to work with; they were given an assignment to read some articles and respond to some questions on a discussion board. Ms. S told the Westminster students that if we thought it would be helpful we could read the articles aloud to the student.
ReplyDeleteThe student I was assigned to work with seemed to be struggling with some of the words so I offered to, and began to read the articles aloud to them. The student’s focus seemed off so I would try to call attention back to me and the article by saying using the student’s name, asking a small question about what I had just read, or gesturing to the screen; this would temporarily work.
When we made it to the discuss questions read them to the student and asked which one they would like to answer. I tried to ask guiding questions and bring the article to a more personal "if you experienced something similar.." this wasn't very effective and was usually met with the response of "I don't know" but as I spoke with Ms. S before leaving she informed me that the student has only been communicating orally for the last year and that she was not surprised by the difficulty experienced.
One thing I take away from my experience today is that you have to be prepared for anything; the issue of lack of oral communication is not one that I had ever really considered.
You really do have to be prepared for anything. I was really expecting my student to be really engaged in the topic especially after shaking my hand as a sign of hello (a sign of confidence), Instead my buddy was very quiet and reserved so I had to work a little harder than anticipated, however that is okay because as a teacher I have to adapt to various situations. I liked how you gained your buddy back by repeating her name, etc!
DeleteI also experienced some trouble with how to word questions so the student would understand and come up with deeper answers. I didn't know what to say to keep him on the right track, but I think that's one of those things that comes easier with time. I hope this class will help us to better understand the reading process and to know how to handle these situations in the future.
DeleteI too struggled with the student's ability to form a question on their own. My student while he seemed to understand the material because of previous discussion was not very thoughtful when posing a question to the group. I just reminded myself what I was like when I was in third grade. I could not focus for the life in me. I wanted to see what everyone else was doing at every minute of every day and did not really care about what I was doing. However, you used so many techniques to try and gain your student's attention! That is wonderful! I am glad the strategies worked for you, even if it was only for a short amount of time.
DeleteI agree that it is difficult for students to be engaged in something when they are distracted. The distraction could of been that there were new people in the class (us) so it might of had an impact. You did some awesome techniques to get the student back and engaged!
DeleteI think it's hard for students to be engaged, especially on a Friday. I was that kind of student who just wanted to leave because I thought I had big plans for the weekend. I do like your idea about reading the article to them. That could take away some of the frustration with reading.
DeleteSo i really like that you were able to be on a one-to-one basis while reading and doing an activity. i really liked one-to-one when i was younger because all the attention was on me haha...but seriously i think i student can either love it or hate it. Moreover i have a comment about inclusion. So, the student that you were working with had only been communicating orally for a year, and what grade were you observing? if this was really the case i do not agree with having that student in the same class as students whom have been speaking and communicating for years.I say this because teaching through differentiation must have been damn near impossible. Im all for inclusion i just don't think the student is benefitting as much as he/she is in said environment.
DeleteI believed it is one of the best idea to read aloud with students. As I am an international would be a bit hard because struggling students need someone is native speaker. But I love the idea of the teacher giving you a big challenge to work with student and it will be a great experience for you.
DeleteI have found that with some of the articles we read in Mrs. Speer's class, my student gets overwhelmed, so sometimes, I will tell her to read a paragraph and then I read a paragraph to her. I think this helps break up the length and monotony of the articles and also helps their reading comprehension some since it has been found that reading aloud is helpful in teaching students to read. I also think its great that you talked to Mrs. Speer afterwards about your reading problem since you didn't know your student as well as she did.
DeleteI really like how you pointed out you have to be prepared for anything. I have learned with little kids it is always an exciting day and the most bizarre things can happen. I'm glad you learned something and I hope you keep learning with every new day! I learned something too! It's great!
DeleteToday, the kids were learning more about 9/11. We read some articles with them about 9/11 and then they had to respond to discussion questions on kids blog. The questions were things like "how do you think America changed after 9/11?" and "if you were interviewing someone who experienced it, what would you ask them?"
ReplyDeleteThe student i worked with wanted to read out loud himself. He struggled on some of the bigger words, but he did pretty well. I don't think he was just reading and not understanding, though. He also got distracted a lot by other things on the website and by things going on around him. When we got to the questions, he had pretty generic answers that weren't very thoughtful and didn't show knowledge of what he had just read. I tried to get him to elaborate on his answers a little more, but I didn't really succeed.
I think, as a future teacher, this has taught me to make sure the student truly understands what they are reading as they are reading because he got to the end of the activity and didn't know what he had read. Since the student I worked with seemed to be bored with just reading and wanted to click on other stuff, i might let my future students explore the other parts of the site as well to keep them interested and to help them understand the content.
Do you think your buddy gave generic answers because he is only in 3rd grade and at his age he doesn't have the skills to think and therefore answer elaborately?
DeleteI can definitely relate to your experience. I felt like my student was just focusing on reading and not really taking in any of the information. He knew so much background from the discussions in class the day before, he wanted to answer the blogs first. I think that the reading and comprehension are both very important, but as a teacher I might choose a shorter article for a 3rd grader to reflect upon. The articles were wonderful to help my student stretch his reading vocabulary and abilities though.
DeleteI like how as a future teacher you want to engage your students more. Another idea if you were doing a reading on 9/11 is maybe to share if they have a relative that is a fireman, soldier, police, etc, how could you relate to someone who knew someone who rescued people or died on 9/11.
DeleteI'm glad the student maybe went out of his comfort zone and read aloud in front of you. My girl did not do that, but she still proved to me that she was following along and paying close attention. I'm glad you talked about how we need to understand out students and what they know on a subject before learning it.
DeleteI think with topics like 9/11, unless they are very interested themselves, students will not see the point in learning about it as much. Everyone will have those students. I think you handled the situation really well!
DeleteSimilarly in college i have found that there is a lot more "checking for understanding", which i think should be the opposite: as you get older it lessons instead of increasing. In one of my college courses i would have a professor that was very lecture heavy and he would never move on until everyone got that topic. The way that he tested was that he would simply ask us for a thumbs up for "yes lets move on i'm good", or thumbs down for "please go over this one more time."....I digress a little, but completely agree with you that is important for comprehension level during reading to be high. I also think you did an excellent job at trying to conform to the situation, well done!
DeleteThe articles on that day were very dull to read. I think letting the students explore the site before reading all of the articles would have been very helpful. I know that when I was in third grade it was also more difficult for me to both read out loud and comprehend. Do you think that the student you were working with may experience something similar?
DeleteDuring our first experience at McIntire Elementary, I was able to work one-on-one to help improve their reading abilities and understanding for the day. The teacher I was assigned to work with unfortunately was absent for the day. I, along with two other students, we reassigned to a different classroom for the day. The students were reading articles written about 9/11 in order to further their discussion of 9/11 from the previous day.
ReplyDeleteI was placed with a student in order to help assist them with their reading and comprehension of the articles. Each student was asked to read 3 different articles and ask 4 questions on the classroom blog in order to further their understanding of both the articles and sentence structure. The teacher reviewed each article and question with the students before they started reading along with what a sentence consists of. The student I worked with struggled a little bit, but I was able to help him breakdown the words and sound them out in order to read the word. He had a lot of background knowledge from the previous day, but he was able to direct his questions as a response to the article and questions he asked.
This experience has taught me that no matter how high or low the grade level of reading the students are at, it is almost always beneficial to have a student work with an adult or older student. The student I worked with was excited to work with me and I was able to positively encourage him to continue reading. His classmate asked if he could have a reading buddy next time because what they were reading was hard. I think that made the student I was working with feel special and more excited to read the articles for the day. While one-on-one reading is not always possible maybe getting a teddy bear reading buddy where each student would read aloud to their teddy bear would be something to help stimulate that one-on-one interaction in the classroom.
I remember in Kindergarten having an eighth grade reading partner that would come in and read to me every Friday. He would have me read a sentence, stopping me if I mispronounced a word and have me repeat it until I could say the word correctly. I am forever grateful for Josh's help and as a result I am able to read quickly and comprehend what I read.
DeleteI think it's a great point to make that it doesn't matter what your reading level is. Sometimes, it's easy to think that only the kids who are struggling would benefit from a reading buddy. But from what you experienced at McIntire and my own experiences, I do think that everyone at all levels of reading would enjoy having a buddy sometimes.
DeleteI think it would be so awesome if every student could get that one on one experience. My student was also very excited to be working with me. I do not know what kind of student she is, but she was engaged the whole time. Maybe this was because she was finally getting the attention she needed?
DeleteIt is wonderful that you had a positive impact on your student that you worked with! I love your idea that if you can't have one-on-one with the student maybe having a reading teddy bear or partner!
DeleteI love the teddy bear idea! However, not every student will think it's 'cool' so you have that to think about! However, that's very exciting that the student you were working with was excited you were there!
DeleteI think you one-on-one interaction in the classroom is one of great strategies of working with students. I would love to do that in my future class. I think is help student who especially struggling with the reading a lot.
DeleteWhen I was in elementary school I remember having a stuffed animal of some kind in the class to read to the teacher would draw Popsicle sticks to see who get to read to the bear. I know that the practice helped me be able to read out loud better. Anna brought up a good point though that older students would probably find that "uncool" so it might only work for younger elementary students.
DeleteI was in the same classroom as Meredith, Krista, and Danelle. As Danelle mentioned our partner teacher advised us to read aloud to our McIntyre buddy because it may be beneficial to her students. The boy I was paired with seemed very enthused at first to further his knowledge on 9/11, however once he started reading he immediately seemed disinterested in the subject.
ReplyDeleteCould this be do to the fact he had some trouble reading or could it be because he had no interest in the subject? Personally I think it was do to lack of interest in the subject. The reason I say that is because up until I tied in sports with the 9/11 topic that my buddy was intrigued and he knew how to answer his teacher's discussion questions.
As a future teacher I will make sure my students understand a topic completely before making them do research on the topic (unless if they want to on they really want to (which is what I believe Krista is going to do in her own classroom). As far as this specific topic goes, I will only teach the topic on 9/11 through movies (with parents permission of course). If students have any questions about what they saw they will be asked to talk to their parents at home and have a family discussion on it.
Also as a side note I believe our McIntyre buddies may be so disinterested in the topic because they were not alive when this happen and all the hoopla (any new findings, explanations, etc) have died down 13 years later to were information given to the students may seem irrelevant to them.
I think it was a good idea for you to tie in a subject the student was interested in to make it easier for him to connect to what he was reading. How did you tie in sports with 9/11? Also, how do you think, as teachers, we could portray the significance of 9/11 to our students in order for them to understand how important it was and not just be disinterested?
DeleteThat is a great idea! I love the effort to go over the topics as a class together rather than assuming the students can read and comprehend at the same time. Making sure that every student understands what they are reading and their questions can start to be answered by the article would be more beneficial to their learning in my mind. I think the movie technique (with parent's permission) is very positive. While choosing the right movie that is age-appropriate will be very important, I think that it could generate an in-class discussion rather than a blog board. The immediate answers to their questions might be more important for the children's learning rather than a delayed response. That is a wonderful idea!
DeleteGreat good using their interests to get them to understand the subject at hand better!! I do not know what activities they did on 9/11 before hand, but I think showing an approved video could have helped before answering the questions.
DeleteKrista: All I had to say was that the Knicks is a basketball team in New York and how a lot of fans were devastated on that day, then my buddy went on to ask I wonder how many teams were traveling and got hurt by this event. Nothing to big but it gained my buddy's interest in the topic back.
DeleteI love how you tied in sports to get the student interested in the subject. Also if he seemed to be interested before he started reading do you think he got disinterested because of the difficulty of reading or that they didn't have choice in what article they read?
DeleteBrittany: To be honest it could be either of those factors. My buddy also looked sad while he was reading so maybe he does not like learning about or talking about tragedies.
DeleteI definitely agree with you about explaining the topic and making sure the students understand what they are researching. I would think it would be hard to make students understand what happened during 9/11 considering, like you said, they weren't alive.
DeleteI think sometimes it is hard for student to work in pair if another one does want to work. I had some experience of working in pair of students where one is interesting of learning but another doesn't care. It gives another one a hard time to learn and I have to be the one working with him.
DeleteThe classroom I was placed in discussed how to pick out a book in the library. They had criteria such as the five finger rule, it had to be on their reading level, etc. They also discussed book recommendations from other students. The class went to the library to pick five books they are interested in reading and write why they are interested. While in the library there was one little girl who looked a little lost. I went up to her and asked what kind of books she liked to read. She responded that she doesn't really read. I asked her what her favorite hobbies and animals were. She said that her favorite animals are lions and bears. We looked for books that had bears and lion in them and found a few she was interested in. This experience is important because as a teacher you want books that the students will be interested in and to do that you need to know their interests.
ReplyDeleteAfter the library the class returned to the classroom and engaged in SSR. The teacher assigned me to a girl. She was a good reader but would get caught up on words she didn't know. I would take the word and divide it into smaller sounds/words. After she said each of the separate sounds/words I had her put them all together to pronounce the word. Then I asked if she knew what the word meant and on some of them she did while others I had to explain it to her. Her book also referenced the T.V. show Friends and I asked her if she ever watched it and she did. The first day was great and I'm looking forward to working with the students more!
I like how your teacher required students to explain why they were interested in a book that way the students will be more engaged in the book they read instead of reading it for an assignment. Sometimes students at a young age do not know what interests they have in books so asking what hobbies they have, etc is a great way to get them to start and hopefully finish a book. It sounds like you did a good job helping her read! Glad you had fun with your buddy :)
DeleteI love how McIntyre has a library. I think that is so great the students get to make trips there and pick out their choice of book with some guidelines. Also, I am so glad you helped a struggling student pick out a book. You probably made her day and picking out a book with her interests will hopefully make her want to read more.Great work Brit!
DeleteI was definitely a fan of our teacher. My reader was also good but he was a little slower than some students but he still read the words correctly and I knew he was comprehending because he would stop and explain what he just read. I did the same thing with him when he had trouble with words.
DeleteI'm glad you had such a great first day at McIntyre. It is crucial to get children to pick a book they like! Sometimes, it seems as though students get overwhelmed by all the choices so a question that can narrow things down was probably extremely helpful to the student!
DeleteIt's great that you were able to help the little girl find some books she was interested in! Sounds like you had a good first day! Keep up the positive attitude!
DeleteWhat I did: I got paired with a student to work on reading. I asked her how she wanted to go about reading the articles assigned and she requested me to read them aloud to her. We read three articles about 9/11 on her chrome pad. After that we only had to answer one discussion question, but I asked her if she wanted to answer another and she said yes! She was excited, because I think she was getting a better understanding about 9/11 through the articles and I would also stop and explain things to her. She also mostly answered the questions on her own.
ReplyDeleteHow did it go: Brooke was great! She was engaged the whole time and I really feel like she got something out of me working with her. I think me being there helping her along the way made her excited and willing to work. She was create will her answers too.
What I took away as a future teacher: Never assume your students know something. Ask them questions about the subject and get an understanding of their level. Also explain things as you go away reading, it helps a ton! Lastly, be patient with a student as they are thinking. It might not come right away because they may take longer to think about things.
I think it's easy to focus on the things that went wrong in a lesson or with a student, but you also have to focus on the positive things. It's awesome that you had a student that was so engaged and ready to learn. You also made a really good point about not assuming they understand something. Although some of them may, you have to explain it for others. If you assume they know something, they won't understand if they don't and they will be afraid to ask questions if they think they are supposed to already know.
DeleteI think it's great that you had a student that was excited about you being there, it probably makes things a little easier when you see a smile on their faces. I do like what you pulled from the teacher, is never assuming because I was one of those shy kids that was afraid to ask questions.
DeleteI love your response! Congratulations on the experience going so well! That is awesome! I think that not assuming your students know anything is a very refreshing and down-to-earth expectation of your students. You don't know what they all have been taught because you did not each them before. I hope the rest of your field experiences go just as well!
DeleteYes, one of the great things that I love to do in the class is smiling even though I feel nervous to be in the class. I like how you explained what you had done in the class and student seems to like you a lot. It shows how hard you worked that help students work on their own like created their work.
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ReplyDeleteIn the classroom I was placed in the teacher started their day with relaxed conversation, like what they were excited for that weekend. She then decided to explain how to pick books out in the library because the assignment was to pick out five books and write down those titles and authors and why you were excited read that particular book. She has rules for her students such as the five finger rule which is if you flip to a page in a book and you stumble over five words on that page then the book is probably not a good choice.
ReplyDeleteI then got to sit down with a boy during their reading time and we read a book about gorillas. I asked him why he chose this book and he said that he went to the zoo and the monkey exhibit was his favorite. He stumbled over a few words but I showed him how I was taught to break down words I didn't know.
I liked how the teacher went over each rule right before they left for the library so it was in their heads, hopefully. When we got back from the library she rewarded her students with a dance which I thought was interesting and cool. This teacher had a lot of great ideas from what I saw.
I've never heard of the "Five Finger Rule" until now. I think that it is an excellent approach, especially for such young readers. A slight challenge in a book is a good thing but we don't want our students to be overwhelmed and become disinterested in what they are reading.
DeleteI also like the five finger rule! I would have never thought about that! I also like how she rewarded them with a dance party when they got back from the library! Sounds like a lot of fun!
DeleteI like the teachers five finger rule! I will definitely use that rule in the future. Your teacher sounds like she makes the school day fun for her students. I also like how she reminds her students of the rules because everyone needs a reminder once in awhile.
DeleteI too have never heard of a rule like this. I would use it to ween out the harder books based on if i cant read those 5 words. A lot of students struggle with books out of their zone so i really like this, and it should help combat that pretty well.
DeleteI think the "5" finger rule sounds interesting, but I think it could be problematic as well. I will never forget the time I was in 2nd grade, and I went to our school library and tried to check out a pretty thick Laura Ingalls Wilder book, and the librarian told me I could not check it out because the sticker that was on it that designated the appropriate grade level was too high for me. I was extremely frustrated and went back to my teacher and told her what happened and she told me to go back and tell the librarian that I was plenty capable of reading that particular book. Obviously a struggling reader shouldn't try to read a high school level book, but on that same token, if I had a struggling reader, and they wanted to read a chapter book, I would encourage them to find a book that fit their level even if some of the words were a bit too hard. I think the "5 finger rule" might be a bit discouraging.
DeleteWell, I finally completed my first day this past Friday. I was assigned to 5th grade in Mrs. Fitzpatrick classroom. However, she was at a conference. Instead, I went into Miss. Miller's classroom, also 5th grade. I mostly walked around and observed the students. First they did stations. Their stations were silent reading, writing, or Mobey Max, a computer program where they enhance their language arts skills. During this time I mostly walked around and made sure everyone was on task. Next they did a whole group activity. They had been reading an article in a magazine about a volcano eruption. They had to write a summary over the article. Something that I took away from this day is to make sure everyone knows what they are supposed to be doing. Miss Miller had the chart of stations for each group clearly displayed on the SmartBoard. Anytime they would ask her what they were supposed to be doing, she said, "look at the board." I found her to be very organized!
ReplyDeleteI love finding out all of these classroom are using computer for some learning activities. It's so cool and I can't wait to figure out all the cool stuff I can do with my students when I am a teacher. Also, I like what you took away from the day and organization is definitely a big thing in the classroom!
Deletei love the constructivist style of just setting up and letting the students take the reigns. i am also a fan of being organized although i may not seem so at times i do think it is imperative to be a successful teacher. Direction will always be an issue, there will always be the students that say "im done what do i do now" or "what are we supposed to be working on" easily combated with keeping the directions on the board someplace and also posting an alternative assignment (for those older grades).
DeleteAnna, I love that your teacher has so many different options for kids. It sounds like that would also be a great time for the teacher to work with kids who are struggling individually. This also addresses a variety of learning styles since she has so many options for her kids. I think that is one thing that I am realizing is the most important, choice. If students are given choice it is easier to them to enjoy and connect to a lesson. I realize that teachers can't always tailor a lesson 4 different ways, but I think it is something very important to keep in mind.
DeleteI think it's a really good idea to make sure and have instructions on the board just in case some kids aren't paying attention when you say it the first time or if they forget (especially if there are multiple steps). It also helps if some kids go faster than others because they can move on at their own pace.
ReplyDeleteThis was only my second time in Mrs.Spears classroom. I was with Brooke again and we read about maps this time. We got a mini newspaper to read from. I remember having to read from these mini newspapers when I was in school and I hated them, but now I think they are so useful and fun to read! I asked her if she wanted me to read again or if she wanted to try this time. She told me she wanted me to read. As I was reading I would stop and model what thoughts should be going through your head while reading. I think she really enjoyed stopping and talking about personal connections we made while reading. Towards the end of the article, I came to a short paragraph and I asked her if she could read it to me. She did and I barely had to help her. I also complimented her and told her she knew a lot of the words. I hope this boosted her confidence. Once we were done reading there was a picture of Missouri and we had to label the capitol, where our city is, and our favorite place to go in our city. While we were marking the map we had to make a key to show what our symbols meant and we also had to draw a compass.
ReplyDeleteIt went really well, except Brooke was not as focused as last time. This time we got to sit on bean bag chairs and we were by the wipe board, so she kept wanting to draw on it. She wasn't wanting to draw pointless pictures though, she wanted to draw a compass and Missouri, so I let her because maybe this is a way she learns.
One thing I take away from this experience is that I am patient, but I need to be even more patient. I also figured out that I quickly learned what Brooke is interested in and one of her learning styles. Also, I noticed Mrs. Spears does not baby her students and sometimes I struggle with that, so I'm going to keep observing Mrs. Spears way because I think she is great!
Erin, I think it is awesome that you are using what we learned in class to help teach these students to read. I also agree with you that Mrs. Speer is an excellent teacher to observe. She is firm with her students when she needs to be, but they also respect and love her. I don't know if you noticed, but she also has a lot of great classroom ideas that I want to steal. She has an overall ocean theme, and a lot of "I can" statements,which are essential. Mrs. Speer also has little McDonalds fry boxes for students to put slips of paper with compliments to one another. This reminded me of the activity in One Child. Overall, I think we will learn a lot from experiencing her teaching style.
DeleteIt was my first week of working with Mrs. McDaniel classroom on Wednesday. I love meeting new students and they are very nice and welcome me to class. The environment of the room was very well organized. There were five people who took care of the students during my observation.
ReplyDeleteI spent my first class with them with Art project. The topic was on apple and they all were so exciting about learning new things. Moreover, they all learned the difference types of apples, which they all were laughing when Mrs. McDaniel asked them to talk with apples. It was a fun class and I was happy to be in that class.
Then, we did more activities, we walked to public library to watch a movie about apples. It was one of interesting cartoon that they were really enjoy it. They all listened quietly. After that we went back to school and ready to taste some of apply pie that they cooked together.
The activity that I did with them was about reading book with them. It seems to be hard for some of student because they are only four years old. They love picture book a lot because it's the best way for them to understand more. The most important thing was they love asking many questions and be curious all the time. Lastly it was a great experience working with them for two hours and it worth a lot.
My first week went pretty well. I didn't really know what to expect, I've never really worked with 3rd graders all that much. As I entered the room The children were all in their seats and they were getting ready to go to the library. The students had future reading sheets to fill out. The objective was to find books that interested them and for them to record the title, author, and a sentence about why that book interested them. After library time was over we went back to their classroom where it was time to discuss their findings. For such good behavior in the hallway and for following directions the class got to have a couple mins of "dance time". Dance time is a privilege given to the students when they collectively do something exceptionally well. On the smart board Dance Dance Revolution comes on and the students imitate the dance moves by their seats. The students loved this for the most part. Their were outliers of course that thought they were too cool for it. I thought the overall observation went well, i really liked the idea of a reward system. Also Ms. Downey used these cues to see if the students were paying attention. For example, teacher says," class class!!...", class responds, "yes, yes??" That way she know who is paying attention based on her responses. I will definitely be using that in my classroom, age depending.
ReplyDeleteFor my first day in the field, I was paired with Jayna. I am in Mrs. Speer's class, and I can tell she is a great teacher. The first day I went, 9/11 was the day before, so the students were reading articles about events that happened during 9/11 and students responses to 9/11. Mrs. Speer had a variety of articles for the students to choose from and then they had a variety of choices to respond to on their blogs. I loved the idea of choice. I think this really helps students who don't enjoy reading as much, because they are able to pick what they read, which makes the experience more enjoyable. I read 4 articles with Jayna, and then we chose a question to blog about. She chose to answer a question about things we could do in the future to keep things like this happening again. Jayna responded along the lines that we should all be kind to one another and accept diversity. While this was a typical response of students in her class, I was impressed with the depth of some of the other student's responses. These students seem to have a lot of love in their hearts now for other cultures and races, and it makes me wonder when they start disliking other people for their race and culture and noticing differences.
ReplyDeleteI like how the teacher gave a variety of articles to choose from, so the children could pick which on stood out to them. Also, some of the students are a lot further a long than Jayna is I am guessing since she is paired with you. The kids really are so loving and willing to learn. I love it!
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